![]() ![]() The 7 th Voyage of Sinbadīefore 7 th Voyage, Ray Harryhausen was just the creature guy for black-and-white monster movies after this big-budget full-color fantasy adventure, he was the premier special-effects wizard of his time, not simply because he presented the most convincing and magical fantasy creatures in world cinema, but also because it proved he was a top-notch storyteller into the bargain. But it inspired an entire generation of young filmmakers, special effects artists, and game designers, whose work would bear fruit in the fantasy boom that would begin in the early Seventies. Hollywood didn’t quite know what to make of it, so 7 th Voyage was followed by just a few copycats that were pitched at children. In that regard, Ray Harryhausen’s 7 th Voyage of Sinbad was a watershed, a top-notch fantasy that seemed to leap out of nowhere into magical life (though it had predecessors in the 19 Thief of Bagdad films). ![]() ![]() ![]() Nowadays you can’t walk down a store’s DVD aisle without tripping over a stack of fantasy films, but not that long ago they were as rare as roc’s teeth and finding a good one was like stumbling on a magic lamp. ![]()
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