The Lost Continent (1968 film)
The Lost Continent, AKA Lost Island, The People of Abrimes, Uncharted Seas (1968)
Summary
"See blood-beasts battling over female flesh! Torture-pits for forbidden lovers! Sacrifice to giant jaw-snapping mollusks! Helpless beauties attacked by crazed kelp-monsters! Escape from a floating death ship and the fiery destruction of a lost continent in a living hell that time forgot!" A captain and his ship of fools and explosives are stranded in a strange ships' graveyard world of entangling seaweed, horrible monsters, and immortal conquistadors.
Details
- Release Date: 1968
- Country/Language: UK, English
- Genres/Technical: Fantasy, Horror, Adventure
- Runtime: 1 hr 37 min
- Starring: Eric Porter, Hildegard Knef, Suzanna Leigh
- Director: Michael Carreras, Leslie Norman (uncredited)
- Writer: Michael Carreras (screenplay) (as Michael Nash), Dennis Wheatley (novel)
- Producer/Production Co: Hammer Films, Seven Arts Pictures
- View Trailer: (link)
Ratings
MPAA Ratings
- Rated: G (perhaps closer to a modern PG for mild 1960s Violence and mild Adult Content)
Tentacle Ratings
A rough measure of how "Lovecraftian" the work is:
- SS___ (Two Tentacles: Barely Lovecraftian)
The bizarre, over-the-top pulp horror plot and setting of the passengers and crew of a doomed ship stranded in the Sargasso sea with strange Tentacle Monsters, man-eating seaweed, and a sinister human-sacrificing cult of immortal conquistadores has no real parallel in Lovecraft's work, but wouldn't be too far out of place in the sort of William Hope Hodgson story that Lovecraft might have enjoyed.
Note: This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.
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Synopsis
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A captain and his ship of fools and explosives are stranded in a strange ships' graveyard world of entangling seaweed, horrible monsters, and immortal conquistadors.
Notes
Comments, Trivia, Dedication
Associated Mythos Elements
- fiction: based on Dennis Wheatley's Uncharted Seas
- fiction: compare to William Hope Hodgson's The Boats of the Glen Carrig
- film: compare to Matango: The Mushroom People (1963 film)
- race: Tentacle Monster
- race: Human Cultists
