The Cyclops was the masterpiece of Harryhausen. It's facial expressions and it's mannerisms made it so impressive.

This was my movie as a kid. I was born in the 90s but this was it for me

This was a spectacular monster in the old days of special effects; and even today it's still impressive, which testifies to Harryhausen's skill.

i watched this video like 30 times back in 2011, the nostalgia is real

This was Harryhausen's masterpiece creature. He was never to really improve upon this in any other of his creations, good as they were. The subtleness in the creatures movement and reactions just stands out. A Brilliant piece of animation bar none.

@KadeshLeMort nobody was laughing at this scene when it came out. This was to audiences in the 50s what transformers is today. This scene is still amazing. That work is phenomenal. The fx artist had to move that puppet a fraction of an inch for every frame of film to make it come to life. That is an astonishing work of art. I don't even know how he got so much movement in that eyeball. There's still something magical it has over CGI because it's a physical object, it's not just pixels.

Terryfying. These movies scar3d the living daylights out of us. The jittery movements actually added to the horror of the monsters!

The Maestro himself was in Louisville a few years ago, on his way to Hollywood to get his Oscar, and stopped in at WONDERFEST to personally introduce this classic at a local theater! It was my privilege to sit next to folks who had never seen it - much less on the Big Screen. I was eight years old all over again! Thanks to my friend from Alabama for the ticket to this priceless night!

Now THIS is great special effects. It's more believable than the CGI in Lord of the Rings, Jurassic Park or Transformers, don't you agree? And the sound quality! This blows the doors off movies like The Matrix or The Dark Knight...I am going out to buy the boxed set of the Sinbad the Sailor!

Ray Harryhasuen - The man who made stop motion famous. A dying art that will always be one of the best.

I love stop motion animation feeling and atmosphere. Pretty amazing for 1958.

This movie and "Jason and the Argonauts" were my favorite as a kid. . .hell, they still are now!

Some of the best stop motion animation ever conceived. If the sculpt was less exaggerated, I would've been convinced they were fighting a real Cyclops as a kid.

Ce film a envouté mon enfance....même aujourd'hui je le trouve encore superbe. Le seul défaut du film c'est qu'il ait pris un jeune garçon pour être le génie de la lampe, cela manquait de réalisme.

Oh man, so many memories from my childhood, and even to this day, I still don't know how they did it.

La recuerdo muy bien apenas tenía 6 años, quedó grabado en mi cabeza ese cíclope por el miedo que sentí. Buenos momentos del cine. Gracias por compartir recuerdos del viejo cine 📽

Best special effects I've seen in a long time. The rubbish today can't compare to this.

hands down best cyclops from media ever

Ray Harryhausen, the best stop motion animator of all time died today. RIP. Grim day for cinema.

no-one has ever taken the magic lamp from that cyclops and gets away with it! they could've been killed! Harryhausen's a genius. may he rest in peace.

this is surprisingly smooth. assuming its clay animation thats the best i've seen using this style

I saw this movie when I was 6-7 years old and loved it ^^! And I was born '84! No matter how "fantastic" the effects are 2day, I will always enjoy these far more!

this movie was one of my childhood favorites

This Sinbad is the best one yet John

I hsd the pleasure and enjoyment of meeting Ray in person at an art event lecture. it was dazzling and learning about how he really started some to the best animation without cgi comptuers yet. I took a photo with him on stage too. He fueled my interest in makeup application and special effects . He was one of a kind and lived until his 90's those movies are classic and better than most gore and blood and evil violence in movies today hollywood so creative and fun back then and into the 1980s i would say

I remember watching this as a young kid living in Germany. Watched it again recently after all these years and I still enjoyed it.

Omg this is the inspiration behind the Gravity Falls episode where Mable is scared of that cyclops. I can relate to that episode because for many years i was scared of the gorilla from Spongebob.

Cool monster! This was my fav Harryhausen monster as a kid. Thanks for the post. It brings back the memories!

That's what makes these movies great: the detail and character Ray Harryhausen gave his creations.

The fabulous Stop-Motion by Ray Harryhausen. Unbeatable !

Love those old-skool movies! XD

I grew up watching this movie, one of my favorite movies.

R.I.P Ray Harryhausen. CGI will never come close to how great your monster flicks were.

Great upload. I think the stop motion technique made these monsters of old movies more scaring than creatures in modern movies. I don't know, there just was something in the way they moved which I always found scaring. No matter how horrible a monster can be in modern movies, they will never be so scaring for me.

The Cyclops is me when i am drunk! :)) roarr!

Even though these monsters in old movies are made so bad they scared the shit out of me when I was young. Nowadays horror monsters look too perfect so that they can't really scare me. These monsters in such old movies are much scarier.

This movie kept my 6 yr old boy mesmerized tonight. He said the computer graphics were cool and that he couldn't get the music out of his mind!

this was a really good movie. The guy who directs all these sinbad movies is really great.

The flaming cartwheel dude was a genie from the bottle.... What I find fascinating, this was all before DnD times... so this all played a major role in the DnD culture...

that is pretty cool stop motion right there. :)

Oh wow! I remember trying to make this cyclops out of whatever clay I could find, only to have it look terrible!

Henry Selick (director of Coraline) said that this was some of the first stop-motion he saw as a kid and it's what dragged him into the world of stop-motion. I have to admit, this is some awesome animation for 1958. Jesus Holy Christ!

Sure this may look funny but it gives the film its charm.

DUDE!!! Thanx so much! My memories must have been all mixed up ...it wasn't actually a cyclops :-D (I guess that single horn and whacky stop motion got me confused). Another great classic whose memory has been tarnished by a soul-less 3D Holywood remake.

I seen this as a kid and this scared the hell out of me and that yell roar it was is panic enduceing even now

scariest cyclops ever put on film. Class :O

omg, i saw this movie when i was a lil kid and loved it haha, back then this was like the best thing haha

My mom saw this as a kid...she had nightmares for years. I see it today, it is definitely freaky--much better than the CGI monsters nowadays!

This cyclops scares the crap outta me when i was a child lol

Dude, this was made by like THE master of clay stop-motion animation

quite well made for such a old show/movie :P

I remember watching this as a kid, Good stuff.

Dude this movie was made in 58.Please...We all know todays technology is on another level but I grew up watching this movie & I still enjoy watching it.They should make a remake of this. I bet it would be awesome just like King Kong was.You were probably born in the 90's.

I think the roar the Cyclops makes is one of the most forgotten and yet most well remembered roar in cinema history

I love this film!! Looks amazing for it's age!

Thank you from a former band member.

This is better than CG. Most people today can't admit that.

Great stuff dude Hilirious when you are stoned. haha

way better than those google ads

This still looks more magical and way cooler than any dull and lifeless CGI creature.

My father was a film buff, and I've still got this on Super8 reel. ahhh..this brings back memories.

Wow....what a brilliant observation. Thanks for the heads up.....I was beginning to think that there really was a 100' tall cyclops living in the Mediterranean.

I kind of agree with what you are saying, but I think it's more the creatures of Harryhausen that have an edge over the CGI of today. Stop animation had something about it, almost a mythical magical feel that you you wont get out of a computer. You feel the human touch in these great old movies.

This gave me nightmares as a kid 😭

Now that's what I call teamwork in getting away. And Bachtin08, you're spot on with that comment.

this was WAY better than the golden voyage of sinbad

when this came out was great movie yes it still is ,

I would really love to see Peter Jacoson do a remake of some of these films.

lmfao!!!!! i watched this movie when i was omfg! ty so much i didnt remember the name! :)

I remember watching something Sinbad related as a kid. Not sure if this was it exactly, but still looks pretty cool..

awesome animation.i love good stop motion movies.

nice, i grew up watching these too! glad you enjoyed it

If you were a kid in the 70's it just didn't get any cooler than this before Star Wars came out. Maybe Jason and the Argonauts or War of the Worlds. Turner Classics shows this all the time. It holds up pretty well.

Me and you have the same taste. I still watch both movies today and I'm 46 years old.

@richwicz Mine were the Wood Golem and Kali from "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad", the Skeletons in this movie and "Jason and the Argonauts", and the Scorpions and the Medusa in "Clash of the Titans."

It was incredible!

Look back at this now I can't believe I paid.50 cents to see this at the movies lol but it was fun as a kid

Holy Hell, I never would've believed it unless I saw it with my own one eye. Somebody posted a video of my mother-in-law on KZfaq.

my dad had this on vhs when I was younger, I would watch this ALL the time classic

Man,when I was a kid these monsters looked so real they still look good but 38 years ago they were real frightening to me.

i must admit..these type of animation makes the creatures more scarier than the cgi animated creatures from todays movies.I've always been freaked out by these mythical movies..like of those greek myth creatures from those old movies

Yeah, that's absolutely right. I wonder if the full movie is on you tube, too. funny how this is still a good flick, despite modern advances in special effects.

This is way more eery, creepy and interesting than any CGI Hollywood puked on us this last 2 decades.

wow..look at the wonderful special effects used in the movie in 1958

Amazing Stop-Motion Effects. I love re-visiting those old movies. THAT's what I describe as movie-magic. Only few movies achieved that kind of degree: The Abyss (water tentacle), Terminator 2 (T1000), and later The Lord of the Rings. :)

It shows. The fight choreography is pretty spot-on

lmao you gotta love the old school graphics. great movie

The Cyclops--- one of the greatest movie monsters ever. Long live Harryhausen!!

I somehow get more caught and fascinated by these motion picture monsters than by the one created through computing craft.

i came here just to see how cyclops was spelt, but this is awsome!

53 years later and CGI *almost* looks as good as this...

I love Harryhausen, there's so much life in the cyclops!

hahahahahahahahahah hahahahah I bet audiences were laughing at this scene

I still love these movies it was really frightening when I was little :O

Excellent visual effects, even by today's standards.

Ray Harryhausen da man. If there was a scene that was the 1950's-60's geek-sci-fi-fantasy genre of films that was the equivalent of that awesome opening shot in Star Wars A New Hope with the huge Imperial destroyer, this is it. That huge creature looming over the viewer. Man. Still gives me chills. And the music didn't hurt, either

His art was scarier than CGI. RIP Ray Harryhausen

Stopmotion will always be my favorite kind of special effect. And nobody ever did it better than Harryhausen.

That Cyclops still looks badass now! Woot!

@swanseajackthe3rd True. Spielberg originally had intended to shoot Jurassic Park with stop motion and I saw the demo shots. They truly took the art form of stop motion photography to its ultimate form. No doubt Jurassic Park would have still been a blockbuster with that but when Spielberg saw a computer graphics demo of very realistic looking dinosaurs he realized cgi was faster, cheaper and would only get better.