7. Cyclops (The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad, 1958)
For the film that brought Dynamation to brilliant, bustling life, there could not have been a more spectacular promise of the shape of things to come. Suddenly, Harryhausen was able to concoct a fantasy world like no other- this being the first film he shot entirely in colour. And so the 7th Voyage of Sinbad is a film teeming with monsters; the cavern-dwelling dragon, the wide-winged Roc and the creepy serpent woman whose flailing arms and whipping tail are paraded before a royal audience. And although it marks the first appearance of a Harryhausen staple, the sword-wielding skeleton warriors, it is another creature that really catches our eye. The Cyclops is a hybrid of Pan (hence the goat legs) and the original Ymir model, and poor Sinbad has to endure not one but two. The film's stand-out scene sees the Cyclops locked in battle with the dragon; easily the most elaborate- but exciting- result of the film's eleven-month- long animation process.