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Cyclops' in film

Postby The Giant Pacific Octopus » Tue Jul 14, 2009 12:43 am

I'm compiling a list with someone about Cyclops' in film and television. So far I got this list

*Ulysses (1954) (Italian) Features Polyphemus

*Maciste in the land of the Cyclops aka Atlas in the land of the Cyclops. (1964) (Italian-went straight to TV here) Features a 12 foot cyclops

*Ship of Monsters (1960) (La nave de los Monstruos) (Mexican) Features a cyclops monster

*Lost In Space (1965) (No place to Hide (unaired pilot). Footage reused in There Were Giants in the Earth. Reappeared human sized in the 2 part episode The Keeper and again in Flight into the Future. The head of the monster suit was used in the Land of the Giants episode Double Cross. Featured a hairy bearded giant Cyclops

*Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (1958) Features a couple of satyr-like Cyclops

*Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974) Features a Cyclops/Centaur hybrid

*The Odyssey (1997) (Made for TV) Features Polyphemus

*Krull (1983) Features a human sized hero Cyclops

*The Cyclops (1957) Features a giant cyclops (basically a disfigured Amazing Colossal Man).

Am I missing any sci-fi or horror films and shows that featured a Cyclops*, giant or human sized?

*I'm talking about one-eyed monsters/beings. So the super hero Cyclops from the X-Men doesn't count.
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Postby kaijubringer » Tue Jul 28, 2009 6:23 pm

1950s movie "The Atomic Submarine" features a cyclopean alien.
1960's movie "Journey to the Seventh Planet" has a rat-dinosaur- cyclops thingie.
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Postby Enshohma » Tue Jul 28, 2009 11:16 pm

Monsters - this horror anthology series would always open with a humorous title sequence featuring a sitcom-style suburban family of (what else) monsters. The wife and daughter are both cyclops-looking, with the one eye and a pair of small horns. They were rather conservative compared to the father of the household, who was a deformed, potato-headed individual with a plant-like left arm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsters_(TV_series)

Frankenstien Jr. and the Impossibles - In the Frankenstein Jr adventure Menace from the Wax Museum, the masked, smoking-jacket wearing super villain Mister Menace brings three giant movie monster wax figures to life, to assist in his crimes. These monsters included Godzonka (a sea dragon / Godzilla homage), Gorillus (King Kong spoof) and Cyclaws (a cyclops).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenste ... mpossibles

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Richard Moll plays an opposing, but otherwise misunderstood cyclops in the episode Eye of the Beholder.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_the ... es_episode)

The Three Stooges Meet Hercules - One of the weirdest cyclops monsters show up in this film; a two-head being named the Siamese Cyclops of Rhodes...or Ajax and Argo as they were named on the film's script.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_ ... t_Hercules

Godzilla - The 1978 Hanna-Barbera cartoon featured the often overlooked Cyclops Creature, in the episode The Horror of the Forgotten Island. The story and related character is sort of a sci-fi take on the Polyphemus legend, with an alien monster trapped on an island by ancient extraterrestrial technology.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla_(animated_series)

The King Kong Show - An episode of this Rankin-Bass / Toei Productions series (which would become the basis for King Kong Escapes) features a giant Cyclops in bright red and orange Flinstone style caveman wear...unfortunately, it's one of the episodes that have not been released onto DVD by Classic Media, due to the poor condition that it is in.

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen - The 1988 fantasy film features a whole workforce of cyclopes, working for Vulcan in the underworld. However, they are not only obscured by their welding helmets / mask, but seem to be human size as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Advent ... Munchausen

Magiranger / Power Rangers Mystic Force - Although there have been several cyclops-based monsters and villains appearing throughout the Super Sentai franchise, the most authentic, if not most prominent would have to be Hades Warrior God Cyclops. Member of the ten-member strong The Infershia Pantheon, Cyclops was also an expert sniper, with white cybernetic-looking armor.

In the American version of the series, Power Rangers Mystic Force, he was renamed Oculous, the Cunning Hunter...but was more or less the same character from Magiranger. And it should be noted that unlike most characters from these shows, Cyclops and his brethren were naturally giant in size, and only assuming human height to interact with smaller beings directly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infershia_Pantheon#Cyclops
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villains_i ... ce#Oculous
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Postby Shonokin » Tue Jul 28, 2009 11:23 pm

If you're including cartoons Jonny Quest had two cyclops.
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Postby The Giant Pacific Octopus » Wed Jul 29, 2009 1:01 pm

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Postby Enshohma » Sun Aug 09, 2009 11:01 pm

Came across another film of note, and an early short from Peter Jackson too, dubbed The Valley:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Valley_(film)
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Postby The Giant Pacific Octopus » Tue Aug 11, 2009 10:01 pm

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Postby Green Dragon » Thu Aug 13, 2009 9:18 pm

Uh, on Twin Peaks, there was a brothel across the Canadian border named One-Eyed Jack's! :)

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