Directed by Nathan Juran
Screenplay by
Starring Kerwin Mathews, Kathryn Grant, and Torin Thatcher
This is fact: all special effects will eventually look like shit. No matter how good they appear in the moment to audiences of the time, or how cutting edge they may have been, they will all come to look janky, threadbare, and horribly laughable. The only unknown is the amount of time it takes, and the size of the laugh they get. For The Scorpion King, that turn happened instantly, literally the moment the images left the computer. For 2001: A Space Odyssey and Zodiac, it hasn’t happened yet.[1] And maybe in that juxtaposition we can learn a valuable truth: the best VFX are those that don’t reach beyond their capabilities,[2] while the worst try to live out there just beyond the cutting edge. Continue reading