This was the man that my friends in grade school knew by name at a time when they couldn't name anyone else in a film, he was that famous!
Ray Harryhausen understood that it was unreality that makes movies fun to watch. The stop-motion process lends an otherworldly quality that gives any movie that "creepy feeling" that I still look for in movies.
By his works shall he be immortal. Rest In Peace Ray Harryhausen.