More Halloween Harvest for 2026

Spooking: Monsters, Mayhem, and MarqueesAnd a Hand-Made Puppet Shall Lead Them --- Do click and enlarge the Beast. He’s a model, so are cars, so’s the street itself … would we have it any other way? Much appeal of Harryhausen was fans figuring they could do what he did at home. That’s how he started after all, in the family garage with a tabletop and stuff bought at the hardware. His was Dreaming the Possible Dream as lots loving his work would. More than a few made films like Ray did, enough succeeding to realize it could be done. Have any effects artists come up in the last sixty years who were not inspired by Harryhausen? What astounds me is detail he lent, inside of the creature’s mouth, its roof, teeth, tongue, all done with two hands and infinite patience. Such application was unknown to my building of Aurora kits. The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms probably got the classiest first-run playdates of any monster movie made during the fifties. Look how the Paramount Theatre gave it a…