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Incontinent...
Imagine a rusting, leaky, creaky, hulk of a ship loaded with high explosives that go boom when they get damp, a cranky crew, and a passenger list borrowed from the love boat. Now, put these poor wretches through a mutiny, a hurricane (in a lifeboat), a shark attack, and being lost at sea. Next, add a tangled mess of killer seaweed. Then, throw in a spanish galleon full of pirates / conquistadors / inquisitors and big-boobed babes who walk around on the killer seaweed in balloon shoes (I'm not kidding)! Finally, toss in a few floppy, rubber "monsters", hand-made by four year olds, and you've got THE LOST CONTINENT. The title is interesting, considering the fact that NO continent, lost or otherwise, ever appears in this film! Just lots of seaweed, boredom, and plot threads that add up to nothing in particular. With all that's going on in this movie, you'd think it couldn't possibly stink. Think again...

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The Creepy Continent
I've always liked Hammer films. This one was a pretty good one for
its genre (1968 I think). The movie begins with a group of passengers on a (nope not a cruise ship) converted garbage scow
maybe, with a beyond dangerous cargo that the Captain of the ship
doesn't fill them in on till they are about to sink.

They soon abandon ship and start drifting thru some pretty nasty
seaweed (it apparently is hungry). Soon they end up back on the same
ship? after drifting for days. Oh yeah there's alot of fog and gloomy
settings which make the film really eerie.
It drags in some spots but picks up with a cool scene with a giant
octopus with one glass/green eye snagging one of the babes.
There is also another scene where a nasty looking hermit crab and
a very ... off scorpion do battle. (they're very big of course)
There is no gore in this film so don't bother looking for it

But for some of you oldtimers, me included (in their 40's I mean) that British babe
Dana Gillespie is in the film too, you'll recognize her she's the
one with the nice cleavage and great body
All in all a good film I recommend it ( oh I forgot to mention there is a character by the name of El Supremo) maybe the screenwriter had too many drinks at lunch

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Hammer Studios Meets Dennis Wheatley
I just had the chance to view an old classic from Hammer Films. I refer to The Lost Continent which was based on the book UNCHARTED SEAS by Dennis Wheatley.

A tramp steamer sets out from Africa under the control of a strange captain. Aboard the steamer is a fortune in illegal explosives and some very desperate passengers. So desperate are the passengers that when notified of an oncoming hurricane they decide to press onward and not turn back. But before the hurricane hits and accident with the anchor ruptures the ships hull. Water is pouring into the hold where the illegal phosphor is stored. Some of the crew abandons ship in a failed mutiny. The rest, as well as the passengers, move the deadly cargo to drier parts. As the hurricane begins to hit the captain decides that they must all abandon ship.

Once in the life boat things get worse and stranger. With tensions high and tempers short fights break out. But before they can escalate to high the small craft finds itself amongst some strange seaweed. Once the weed proves deadly the survivors become indrawn until they bump into a ship stuck in the weed. The ship turns out to be their own and they reboard. They drift with the weed to a graveyard of ships located amongst some uncharted islands. Here the survivors find that others have survived as well. Descendants of many ships manage to survive including some Spanish Conquistadores and some very hungry monsters. A battle ensues and the ships survivors defeat the Spanish leaders and vow to keep trying to escape.

The Lost Continent was originally released in the late sixties and because of that suffers from a slow pace. But the pace is the only fault I find with this film. As one of Hammer's most elaborate and expensive films it stands as a classic. To insure the films quality, Hammer Films imported Bob Mattey, the special effects master from Disney, to handle the effects. From the film's beginning we are plunged into eeriness. Slowly the strangeness builds and we become convinced of the captain's madness. One of the passengers is even seen reading the Dennis Wheatley book. The film manages to convince the viewer of how desperate the characters are; a rare accomplishment. This one is really worth watching.