10 Awesome Movie Monsters Only In One Scene

Honestly, this whole entry is just going to be a love letter to Ray Harryhausen's special effects work, since the man made dynamation a bonafide work of art over his years sculpting monsters for painstaking stop-motion sequences. It would be remiss not to nod to his one scene specials that were Medusa and the Kraken of Clash of the Titans, or the Naga and the Roc of the 7th Voyage of Sinbad, really, but Jason and the Argonauts's sublime creations are the ones that really take the fleece on this one.

The bronze guardian Talos is first to have his one scene and done, a behemoth statue that defends Crete from those that would steal it's treasure. And whilst the towering giant is impressive, he's all but blown out of the water by later in the film when we meet the many-headed Hydra.

Jason is forced into a choreographed fight with a serpentine creature, attempting to slay it with his sword. Whilst he does eventually win their dance, the teeth of the Hydra are taken and strewn across the ground to create The Children of Hydra's Teeth - a band of Skeletons animated over a period of four months to fight against Jason and his gang in one final showdown. Both scenes are breathtakingly impressive, and have an eerie quality of uncanniness about them from the meticulous stop-motion work which makes them all the more spooky.

If any one man has contributed incomprehensibly to movie monsters that deserve endless celebration, it has to be Harryhausen.