The Lost Continent

  • Adventure
  • Fantasy
6/19/1968
97
G

A living hell that time forgot!

An eclectic group of characters set sail on Captain Lansen’s leaky cargo ship in an attempt to escape their various troubles. When a violent storm strikes, the ship is swept into the Sargasso Sea and the passengers find themselves trapped on an island populated by man-eating seaweed, giant crabs and Spanish conquistadors who believe it’s still the 16th century.

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  • John Chard

    Then we'll go on trying, and the day we stop trying we stop living!

    It is one of the major oddities out of Hammer Films, a nutty slice of fantasy adventure sci-fi, resplendent with rubbery effects work, an incoherent screenplay, auto-cue hammy acting and obligatory humongous cleavage!

    Plot, for what it is worth, finds a potentially explosive cargo ship and passengers, piloted by an uber serious Eric Portman, become victim of a mutiny and then find themselves lost in the Sargasso Sea. But wait! There is an island offering salvation, only it's a bit of a time warp populated by despotic Spanish conquistadors. Oh and the landscape is filled with man-eating beasties, including rampaging seaweed.

    Based on Dennis Wheatley's novel Uncharte...

    December 7, 2015
  • Wuchak

    Weird "Ship of Fools" meets Jules Verne adventure

    Hammers psychotronic The Lost Continent (1968) was based on Dennis Wheatleys 1938 book Uncharted Seas, his second of three "Lost World" novels. The story concerns the mostly disagreeable passengers & crew of an old freighter traveling from a port in Liberia, Africa, to Caracas, Venezuela, with a volatile illegal cargo. The protagonists eventually become stuck in a mysterious area of the Sargasso Sea where they discover several intriguing things.

    The first time I saw this on TV it kept my interest for the first hour and twenty minutes, right up to when two colossal creatures appear; they were so laughable I stopped watching. My mistake, because this is actually a gritty ship-or...

    December 15, 2020

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