Sunday, 21 November 2021

SciFi opening titles: Attack of the Crab Monsters


The opening sequence of the 1957 horror sci-fi movie ‘Attack of the Crab Monsters’ directed by Roger Corman starring Richard Garland, presents a underwater world where gigantic fish like creatures cause destruction. Back than this movie most likley tried to trgeted audiances who wanted be thriled by a scary fictional world. The sequnces features multipale extra ordenary creatures typical for Sci-Fi movies. The camara moves rapiedly through the scenery shaking when initalatey seeing the monstres higligthing their danger and creating a more intense feeling for the audiance. There are no soundeefect but only a epic non diagetic orchesteral soundtrack playing in the background making again ehmpizizsing the danger outgoing from the crab
monsteres. The sequnce paste speeds uo when ever the monsteres are viable and consits of cuts therby not distracting from the graphics. The scene is drawn making it seem childish for today standarts as modernday aduances are used to relaistic 3d animations. While featuting good artwork the sequnce probably lost its effectivnes in the last 75 yeas, alltough it might not have the same effect as back then the scene is still entertaing due to the grphics and music. 

Sources:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050147/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

 

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