King Kong went on to inspire many other films of its genre and aspiring animators. A notable example was Ray Harryhausen, who would work with Willis O’Brien on "Mighty Joe Young" in 1949. Following the re-release of "King Kong" in 1952, Harryhausen would later work on "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms" in 1953. The film was about a fictional dinosaur, a Rhedosaurus, that was awakened from frozen ice in the Arctic Circle by an atomic bomb test. It is considered to be the film which kick-started the 1950s wave of “creature features” and the concept of combining nuclear paranoia with the genre. Such films at the time included "Creature from the Black Lagoon" (1954), "Them!" (1954), "It Came from Beneath the Sea" (1955), "Tarantula" (1955), "The Deadly Mantis" (1957) and "20 Million Miles to Earth" (1957). "The Giant Behemoth" (1959) was an unacknowledged remake of "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms".