Documentary film about visual effects master Emilio Ruiz del Rio. From his early works on films at 1942, to his last contribution at 2007, Emilio Ruiz talks on his film experiences and traditional trickery, using foreground miniatures, glass shots, and painted cut out miniatures. It shows interviews with some of the professionals he has worked with, like, Rafaela de Laurentiis, Ray Harryhausen, Guillermo del Toro, or Enzo Castellari
Special Effects
Há milhares de anos, Thulsa Doom, um demoníaco feiticeiro, comanda um ataque em uma aldeia por motivos até hoje não revelados, que poderia ser simplesmente pelo prazer de matar ou para descobrir o segredo do aço, que era guardado pelos moradores desta aldeia. Conan, um cimério, vê seus pais serem mortos na sua frente e seu povo ser massacrado, sendo que ele, ainda criança, é levado para um campo de escravos. Os anos passam e ele desenvolve uma enorme força física, o que faz Conan se tornar gladiador. Ele ainda se mantém determinado a vingar a morte dos pais e quando é libertado tenta alcançar seu objetivo. Conan descobre que Thulsa Doom lidera o misterioso Culto da Serpente e, tentando se aproximar do feiticeiro, faz amizade com dois ladrões, Valéria e Subotai. Ao trio é prometida uma vultosa recompensa pelo rei Osric, que quer que o trio de guerreiros resgate sua filha, que se tornou uma seguidora de Thulsa Doom.
Production Design
Um jovem europeu que mora em San Francisco reluta em se casar com sua namorada de longa data porque deseja primeiro viajar ao redor do mundo. Seu tio rico concorda em enviá-lo em uma expedição global a bordo de seu navio, mas no caminho o menino e seu companheiro de viagem naufragam em uma ilha remota, habitada por incontáveis criaturas pré-históricas, bem como bandidos caçadores de ouro.
Visual Effects
Espanha, 1973. O ditador Francisco Franco governa o país desde 1939 com um punho de ferro; mas agora é um homem muito velho e doente. O futuro do regime enfraquecido está em perigo. O almirante Carrero Blanco é seu sucessor natural. A quadrilha terrorista basca ETA decide que ele deve morrer para impedir que a ditadura continue.
Special Effects
Kronos, hero of a distant galaxy, tangles with mad scientist Gulik over the fate of mankind.
Art Direction
Kronos, hero of a distant galaxy, tangles with mad scientist Gulik over the fate of mankind.
Visual Effects
Like in the novel of Jules Verne four persons try to get to the centre of the world by entering into a world of caves by a volcano. On their way they discover among other things also prehistoric animals like some dinosaurs,
Art Direction
Like in the novel of Jules Verne four persons try to get to the centre of the world by entering into a world of caves by a volcano. On their way they discover among other things also prehistoric animals like some dinosaurs,
Visual Effects
Onion Jack (Franco Nero) has bought a piece of land on which to settle, but the property is still in possession of the orphans of the original owner and is coveted by the local oil baron.
Special Effects
Ten people are invited to a hotel for a weekend getaway by a Mr. U. N. Owen, who mysteriously isn't in attendance. When the group gets together for their first dinner, a record is played in which Mr. Owen accuses each guest of committing various unpunished crimes, which sets off a series of murders in the hotel.
Set Decoration
The wolf dog, White Fang, aids a reporter, a fur trapper, a nun, a young Eskimo boy and his father of ridding a gold mining town of a sleazy crime lord in 1896 Yukon, Canada.
Set Decoration
Art Direction
When the godson of San Francisco's crime lord asks permission to leave "the business," Don Antonio agrees, but reluctantly. Such behavior by either one is a violation of the code, and a bloody mob war breaks out. It is only through the strong support of his family connections in Sicily that Don Antonio is able to survive the mêlée and come out on top. Aghast at the situation he has caused, the godson becomes his leader's "consigliere," or Counselor at Crime.
Set Decoration
An Italian police inspector matches wits with a powerful European drug ring. As he comes closer to the top of the underworld organization, his odds of survival decrease.
Special Effects
The British High Command finds itself in the thick of a huge dilemma when it is realized that they have long been infiltrated by spies from a German intelligence group. This all happens during the preliminary stages of the Battle of Britain.
Visual Effects
During the American Civil War, a Confederate prisoner, Clyde McKay, attempts to steal a box of gold from a Union prison camp. He is aided by a group of prisoners and a prison guard but he is double-crossed along the way.
Matte Painter
To avenge his father's death and free the people of Seriphos from the evil King Galinor of Argus, the noble Perseus must defeat a dragon -- and the monster Medusa, whose steely gaze has cast the kingdom's best soldiers into stone.
Matte Painter
Retomando à Poméia de sua última aventura na fronteira, Glaucus (Steve Reeves) vê a bela jovem Ione (Christine Kaufmann) perdendo o controle de sua biga e a salva de um acidente. Após deixar a dama a salvo, Glaucus finalmente regressa à Pompéia e a encontra totalmente aterrorizada. Um escravo informa que um grupo de bandidos encapuzados estava assassinando famílias inteiras e saqueando todas as casas, inclusive sua fazenda, tendo como principal vítima seu pai. Glaucus, sedento por vingança, segue à caça dos assassinos.
Special Effects
Mercedes Pavón, a famous singer of cuplés is harassed by three men totaly different.
Special Effects
In a Eastern Germany harbor town, two siblings, Elsa (Sabine Bethmann) and Richard (Conrado San Martín) Wolff, help people to cladestinately cross the borders and escape from the communist regime to Western Germany, .
