The effects give the impression of either being done by erratically talented amateurs or in a hurry. The stop-motion animation here has been conducted by Tim Barr, Wah Chang and Gene Warren, who sometimes collectively worked under the name Projects Unlimited. What made The 7th Voyage of Sinbad was Ray Harryhausen’s stop-motion animation set-pieces. Unfortunately for Jack the Giant Killer, the crucial figure it fails to bring back is Ray Harryhausen. Entire set-pieces have been staged to copy The 7th Voyage of Sinbad – the cormorant is a direct copy of 7th Voyage‘s Cyclops, there is a climactic dragon fight, and instead of a genie in a bottle there is a leprechaun in a bottle. It was also one of the most blatant – it slavishly copies The 7th Voyage of Sinbad to the extent of reuniting 7th Voyage‘s director Nathan Juran, its star Kerwin Mathews and villain Torin Thatcher. Jack the Giant Killer was one of the better budgeted.
A number of other films came out seeking to copy that success. Ray Harryhausen’s The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) was a huge success.
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