Clash of the Titans
There are plenty of monumental figures in Ray Harryhausen’s Clash of the Titans but the most towering must be Harryhausen himself; released in 1981, the film is a testament to a decades-long career, and if Titans‘ whole doesn’t match up to its parts, what parts they are. Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Burgess Meredith, and more are on hand — but they pale in comparison to Medusa, one of Harryhausen’s greatest animated sequences… she’s worth sitting through the shenanigans of “Bubo,” a silver and gold robot owl added as, apparently, a sop to the Star Wars crowd.
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About John Landis
John Landis is the director of Animal House, The Blues Brothers, An American Werewolf In London, Trading Places, Schlock, Kentucky Fried Movie, Spies Like Us, Three Amigos!, Into The Night, The Stupids, Innocent Blood, Coming To America, Burke & Hare, and Michael Jackson’s Thriller and Black Or White among many other films, commercials and extensive work in television. He was the Executive Producer and often director of HBO's celebrated series Dream On, and contributed two movies to the Masters of Horror series, Deer Woman and Family. His feature length documentaries Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project premiered on HBO, and Slasher on IFC.