The Lost Continent
“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.
Michael Carreras
Cast
Reviews
2 reviews
John Chard
10y ago
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 seri...
Wuchak
5y ago
_**Weird "Ship of Fools" meets Jules Verne adventure**_ Hammer’s psychotronic “The Lost Continent” (1968) was based on Dennis Wheatley’s 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 protagoni...
