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Ray Harryhausen was a pioneering American animator renowned for his innovative stop-motion techniques. He developed “dynamation,” a method of seamlessly blending live-action footage with meticulously crafted miniature models and puppets. His work profoundly influenced visual effects in fantasy films...
The Augsburger Puppenkiste’s Urmel is a meticulously crafted wooden marionette based on the popular character from Max Kruse's television series. This German puppet troupe is renowned for its detailed artistry and storytelling capabilities. The Urmel figure is particularly notable for its expressive...
Phil Tippett is a highly influential animator recognized for his innovative work in stop-motion animation and computer generated imagery. He developed go-motion technology, initially utilized spectacularly in *Star Wars*, creating remarkably realistic creature movement. His subsequent contributions...
Willis O’Brien was a groundbreaking animator who revolutionized special effects through his innovative use of stop-motion techniques. His work on “The Lost World” and “King Kong” demonstrated unprecedented realism in animated creatures, establishing him as a pioneer in visual effects. He influenced...
The Hollow Places is a 2020 horror novel by T. Kingfisher, the pen name of Ursula Vernon. It follows Kara, who moves into her uncle's roadside museum and discovers a portal behind one of its walls with her friend Simon. The passage leads to a hostile alternate dimension of islands and willow trees,...
Watchers is a 1987 science fiction horror novel by Dean Koontz. The plot centers on two genetically engineered animals that escape from a covert government laboratory: a highly intelligent golden retriever and a terrifying, deadly creature known as the Outsider. As the monstrous entity relentlessly...
The Twisted Ones is a 2019 horror novel by T. Kingfisher, the pen name of Ursula Vernon. It follows a woman named Mouse who travels with her dog to rural North Carolina to clear out her deceased grandmother's cluttered house, where she finds a disturbing journal and evidence of unnatural creatures i...
Dave Allen (1944–1999) was an American stop-motion animator and special effects artist known for his work in Hollywood genre films. He specialized in practical creature effects and fantasy sequences, contributing to films like "The Howling" (1981) and "Q: The Winged Serpent" (1982). Allen also direc...
Jim Danforth is an American stop-motion animator and visual effects artist known for his work in fantasy and science fiction cinema. He is particularly recognized for his animation and special visual effects on the 1970 Hammer Film production When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, which earned an Academy A...
Whitley Strieber's 1978 debut novel features a species of highly intelligent wolf-like predators secretly hunting humans across New York City.
Phantoms is a 1983 horror and mystery novel by American author Dean Koontz. The narrative follows two sisters who return to the fictional mountain resort town of Snowfield, California, only to find nearly the entire population has vanished or been gruesomely killed. They discover the town is under s...
Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real is a British television docufiction first broadcast in 2004 and released in the United States under that title. Produced by Darlow Smithson Productions, it presents dragons as though they had been real animals and uses computer-generated sequences alongside a fictional s...
The Tunnel (2011) is an Australian found footage horror film directed by Carlo Ledesma about journalists investigating a government cover-up in the abandoned tunnels beneath Sydney; it was distributed partly via BitTorrent as an experiment in alternative release.
2013 Dutch-American found footage horror directed by Richard Raaphorst, set in WWII as Soviet soldiers discover a Nazi scientist creating grotesque human-machine hybrid monsters.
Ania Ahlborn's 2017 horror novel set in a small Oregon town where a twelve-year-old boy investigates his cousin's disappearance and uncovers a deeply unsettling supernatural presence nearby.
American syndicated horror anthology series (1988–1991) produced by the team behind Tales from the Darkside, featuring weekly creature-driven tales.
Ania Ahlborn's 2013 horror novel in which a group of friends vacationing at a Colorado ski cabin are stalked and hunted by feral, cannibalistic creatures in the surrounding wilderness.
The Legend of Boggy Creek is a 1972 U.S. docudrama horror film by Charles B. Pierce about the Fouke Monster sightings in Arkansas.
2013 found footage Bigfoot horror written and directed by comedian Bobcat Goldthwait, filmed in Northern California and notable for a lengthy unbroken single-take tent sequence.
2014 American found footage Bigfoot horror directed by Eduardo Sánchez, co-creator of The Blair Witch Project, about friends encountering a Sasquatch in the Texas wilderness.
Mermaids: The Body Found is a 2012 Animal Planet docufiction by Sid Bennett, notable for using faux science to argue for aquatic humanoids.
The Dinosaur Project (2012) is a British found footage adventure-horror film directed by Sid Bennett about a cryptozoology expedition to the Congo that discovers living dinosaurs.
The Frankenstein Theory (2013) is an American found footage horror film directed by Andrew Weiner in which a documentary crew travels to the Arctic to investigate a professor's claim that Frankenstein's monster is a real creature.
2013 Australian found footage horror directed by Andrew Traucki, following wildlife conservationists searching for the endangered Javan leopard deep in Indonesian jungle.
Mermaids: The New Evidence is a 2013 Animal Planet sequel, notable for extending the mermaid hoax format after the first special drew controversy.
2014 found footage horror directed by Grégory Levasseur, following archaeologists who enter a three-sided pyramid discovered buried beneath the Egyptian desert.
2014 American found footage horror following a young man who searches the forests of Alabama for the Bigfoot creature he believes is responsible for killing his father.
Bigfoot: The Lost Coast Tapes (2012) is an American found footage horror film following a documentary crew who investigate a hunter's claim to possess a Sasquatch corpse.
