Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews: THE LOST CONTINENT
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- Review of the gonzo British film "The Lost Continent", featuring giant crabs, Spanish Conquistadors and some truly killer weed! (Originally aired Oct. 10th, 2011)
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The monsters were created by Bob Mattey, who also made the shark in Jaws and the giant squid in 2,000 Leagues Beneath the Sea. If the monsters look cheesy in this one (literally, they look like they were out of cheese curds), you can probably the blame the director and cinematographer from not photographing them the way they were intended.
Considering the shark in Jaws was famously non-functional, I'm not sure Bob can escape all the blame.
Thanks for the great information!!!🙏👍👻
@@michaelccozens And they had to reshoot the giant squid scene in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea in a rainstorm because it came out looking ridiculous as originally intended (at sunset).
I worked with Bob, doing squibs for Forgive Me, Father, and we talked about Bruce a bit....the corrosion of seawater and this being an Untested New Prop, caused the inevitable problems.....not Bob himself .
"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition."
I saw that coming a mile away. 😂😂😂
Hammer House of Horror?
NOHHHHHHHHHHbody expects to see that coming a mile away......
Also...THE COMFY CHAIR?!
I was in Man of La Mancha in high school (this was about '86) as the head of the Inquisition. It was a 2 level stage, with the top part being the walkway down into the prison cell where the play was set.
The steps down had a platform midway, and part of my stage direction was pausing there for a moment. During one of the rehearsals I jumped off the platform, and spun around when I landed and yelled "No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!"
It made me a little sad that only the director, our English teacher, and the lead ( who was frenemy of sorts) got the joke. But it was worth it just for those 2
Back when Brandon would get baked before starting his filming.
What? Surely not! You jest, sir! You jest!
When did he stop? ;)
Oh yeah he's toasted!!!🙏👍👻
@@Pocketrocket-pj1us 🙏👍🤣🤣🤣 exactly
While I'm baked watching it!!!🙏😵💫
Brandon seems like a dude to knock back beers and joints with just like my highschool friends back in the day we used to have awful movie conventions while skipping school in the afternoon
Best line ever "did that boat have a basement " lol
" The Loost Cooonntiieeennt" like how the singer fits it into the opening song.
9:46 Actually, I think two passively drifting ships ending up in the same place makes sense. The currents carry objects on the same general route. This is also what creates things like giant floating islands of plastic (or in this case, anomalous weed).
I watched this back in the early eighties when it came on TV on Saturday afternoons. I thought it was so dumb, yet we would watch it anyhow, lol! I was always a bit horrified of the Sarlacc monster and never forgot it!
You know, I grew up on Hammer Horror, so this one passed me by...
And you can't exactly accuse the Captain of not being a man of his word, he did say that if any of the crew tried for a lifeboat that he would kill them! And it is true what they used to tell us in Sea Cadets after all that seamanship does indeed kill!
11:56 Well, now we know where Nintendo got the idea for "Balloon Fight".
Ship-sailing, Joel. Ship-sailing.
This feels like a Doctor Who serial that had the Doctor edited out of it.
+Doug Glassman Nice reference to MST3K xD "Rock climbing, Joel..."
+Doug Glassman I still don't know which one is worse.....
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That hip, jazzy opener is one of the few (VERY few) great things about the movie. Must seek out soundtrack at once!
Yeah its groovy.
Crewman- “Captain, what’s in these yellow containers?”
Captain- “ Zyklon B, don’t ask questions, just keep them dry.”
2:39 look at the book the guy is reading. It's Uncharted Seas, the novel this movie is based on...
Thank you for that. I would love to actually read the source material. It always give extra nuance and edge to the film version when you watch it again after reading the book.
@@ursamajor5107 I read it because I'm a fan of this movie. The villains in the novel aren't descendants of Spaniards, but, the descendants of African slaves. The book is actually pretty good but definitely NOT politically correct, with a VERY liberal use of the "N" word, a relentlessly gritty portrayal of blacks as many of them used to be along with an obvious perspective from the rather backward social views of the time it was written (1938). I actually found it rather depressing in comparison to the much more colorful film.
@@varanid9 thank you random youtube commenter, you helped me
there are very few sources available for free, and my teacher assigned me this movie for an oral presentation, and i couldn't find a lot of informations about the original book
Saw this once on TCM of all places. Not the worst film by any means. Yes, it takes a while to get going. I believe the pretty blonde woman just passed away recently.
OMG! This is a film I watched once as a kid and never saw again but always remembered as it creeped me out. I just remembered always those balloons as the people were walking with snowshoes. I stumbled on it one Saturday afternoon while channel surfing when I was probably around 10 yo. It was so freaky but I never knew the name of this thing! This is the first time I've seen it in probably 35 years! Thank you!
That is exactly how I recalled this movie... The balloons!! It only took 40+years to find the name.
You are not alone. I thought it was a fever dream from when I was sick and staying at my grandparents.
I remember watching this back n the 70's, it was a "fun" movie to watch on, Saturday afternoon "Dr. shock horror theater" UHF channel.
Wow that brings back some good memories, watching old horror and sci fi movies on Nashville’s UHF station channel 17 . They came on right after the Saturday morning cartoons were over
I remember seeing this as a kid, and it did freak me out.. especially when the guy gets thrown in the pit and eaten. I must have been fever dreaming though, because I clearly remember the pit slowly devouring the guy throughout the course of various scenes, not just at once. Looking back on the film, all the characters are pointless. It might as well be a story about the ship's captain only encountering the events ahead. It's definitely no "Uncharted Seas Novel" counterpart... not in the least.
Same
There's no way you could film, Unchartered Seas, as it was written.
Where is Doug McClure when you need him?
The kid never had any hope, but then the idea of leaving a damp plant hell was offered - of COURSE he would want to go with them!
16:30 I think really the kid's maliciousness is just a pretense because he knows he's a puppet who could easily be bumped-off if he falters in the slightest. And once the opportunity to get away presents itself, he takes that chance; even though it's the end of him.
I remember seeing this at the cinema when I was a kid. That fanged anus monster that the guy got thrown into really freaked me out. I had nightmares about that for weeks.
Steven Stainbrook i can understand that! Those things were new then... society was not desensitised.
I concur. The best time to see this is as a kid. The flesh eating seaweed and the cycloptopus gave me some healthy nightmares (as well as the creature from *Space:1999’s Dragon’s Domain)*
Why the hell is Doug McClure not in this movie?!
Scott Destan Budget.
Because that would’ve made the movie too good.
Doug McClure should have been in this movie
Too busy dodging dinosaurs at the center of the Earth!
They could have got Troy McClure
Back in the days when you had to have Netflix movies mailordered to you, my mother rented this out of nostalgia, and we watched it. I want to see it again simply so I can riff it.
"Getting used to her sea legs? Is that what they call it now? 'Oh I hear Mildred is getting her sea legs with Antonio'"
Katherine Kunker Sealegs? I'd say she found a seacock!
(That's a water inlet valve on a boat, you know.)
The motion of the boat upsets her, well-well
i saw this movie when i was about 8 years old and love'd it, now i am 54, i would like to buy it some day lol , and yes why is Doug McClure not in the movie?
I just found this channel recently, and it's been a trip down memory lane.
I found this one when I searched for it. I saw it at my grandparents house when I was a little kid. I was sick with the flu, and had a really high fever. For years I thought this movie was a fever dream, then I saw a review of it on Stomp Tokyo ( a B movie website from well before the days of CZcams). I bought it off of Amazon to prove to myself and others that it was real, and not a product of my fevered imagination.
I think the ship was hauling sodium, which reacts with water. My high school science teacher used to demo that, but one year a student stole some. He put it in a piece of paper and kept it in his shirt pocket.
This was in June in Pennsylvania, when the humidity was sky high. He rode his bike home, and his sweat hit the sodium. It went up and he lost a nipple to it.
Does the seaweed makes the same noise as the plants do in Day of the Triffids?
I saw this movie back in the 1970's and loved it. Why isn't this film available to buy, rent or stream?
Most definitely delivered with the Spanish inquisition. 👏👏👏
My first thought when I saw the intro...
Lost Continent? ROCK CLIMBING!!!!! NOOOOOOOOO!!
"Get to the lost continent already"? They're on the lost contnent in the opening scene. I really like the movie, mostly because of the way the explosive is brought back into play in the climax and the relatively work the survivors on the ship make of the Inquisition at the end with the guns and explosives.
I saw this movie in a theater with my dad when I was about 7 years old.
It gave me nightmares for decades.
Thanks, Dad!
Brandons dead pan delivery gets me everytime 🤣🤣🤣
Thanks, I now want to watch this movie!
2:48 her name is almost pétas its a french word that means Bitch
When I hear title theme, it makes me want to sing, "How can I be sure in a world that's constantly changing..." Oh, my. It is SERIOUSLY time to smile and say, "cheese." This is priceless.
I had to come back and refresh my memory after getting the title sketch. I had forgotten how funny this was. I guess they had no idea they were painting a bull's eye on their backs by saying, "Let go where the weed takes us." I can't stop laughing.
If the balloon pirates were descendants of Spanish conquistadores aboard that ship...who and where were the women who were having the babies in the first place?
I wondered the same thing.
I caught part of this film many years ago and wondered what it was about and what it was called. That's one mystery solved. Thanks for reviewing.
Christopher Lee's Fu Manchu movies need a review😊
I like those movie! Good movie!
" Lets go where the weed takes us."
Couldn't be said any better.
Well, way before Star Wars, there was a Sarlacc pit else where.
" Lost Continent " 1951.
"The lost Continent" 1960.
" Atlantis, The lost Continent ".1961
" The lost Continent" . 1925.
But this thriller is just
" Lost Continent." 1968.
However , "The lost Continent" 1960 is an Irwin Allen remake of the 1925 movie , based on a story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.( of Sherlock Holmes fame)😃
Saw this film on TV in the early 70's when I was 8, and I was CAPTIVATED. I have it on DVD now.
After all this time this video finally has its own art cover
"You're all bloody mad!" This from a guy with yellow plastic hair.
I saw this movie years and years ago and it gave me nightmares! Never knew the name of it and have been looking on and off for it for years but had no name to go with. Thanks to this review popping up in my recommendations I think it's time I go check it out. I need closure!!!
Hammer Horror and Amicus Productions are my JAM!
Couldn't help but notice that the character Unity is the same woman who plays Vicki Robbins in one of my favorite MST3K's - The Deadly Bees. If you referenced this, I must've missed it.
Stephen Crabtree The actress is Suzanna Leigh, who looked quite fetching in this movie -- especially when she got soaking wet while wearing approximately half a dress.
+Stephen Crabtree I thought it was her!
I Gotta Real Obscure One for Ya, The Fabulous Journey to the Center of the Earth (A.K.A. Where Time Began) from 1978.
From the director of Mystery of Monster Island, Pieces, Slugs and Pod People. Yeah, it's definitely game for this channel!
I think people are so used to making fun of old FX that they don't stop to think: what WOULD a giant cyclopean octopus-jellyfish thing look and move like? I didn't think it looked bad at all. I have Trekkie friends that automatically think that anything that isn't CGI (no matter how bad) isn't good. I actually liked that particular monster and the giant crab - the scorpion, not so much.
varanid9 So...if it didn’t autocorrect from “techie” to Trekkie, they hate every series and movie of Trek but call themselves Trekkies? A little odd.
Personally I’m a practical effects fan myself, even done badly it is better than bad cgi. At least it looks like something is actually there.
When I was a kid I always thought stop-motion looked mechanical. I mean, it does. It has a charm to it like Godzilla rubber suits. It's far from realistic, but you don't watch for those purposes.
@@nvfury13 As much as I love classic Gojira movies, it will never look as great as the upcoming King of the Monsters. Never. When CGI is done right, it's done right.
@@ominous-omnipresent-they When cgi is done rightm it still looks bad 2 years later.
@@thacobell4700 Not as bad as stop motion. Good luck creating something as spectacular as Godzilla KOTM using rubber suits or stop motion. Even video games are becoming harder and harder to discern from real life. Look how fast CGI advanced in the last decade. It's untouchable, and will continue to be untouchable, especially considering the advancement of physics-based engines. As processors become more powerful, CGI will advance exponentially.
I feel that people are usually blinded by nostalgia, or just completely biased when it comes to CGI.
This is one of those films I saw as a kid in the 70s, as the 2nd film of a drive-in double feature
the film is based on a book by dennis wheatley (uncharted seas) the doctor at the beginning in the bar is reading uncharted seas. cool film but shit as shit can be.
There is a version where the theme is Golden Brown by the Stranglers, it was overdubbed
I saw this new as a kid. It scared me at the time. Forgot the name of the movie. But glad to see it again. Brings back memories.
I saw this movie on late night tv as a teen . The lady with the big balloons 🎈 really peaked my interest 💓
Oh and 3) definitely good reference to Boba Fett falling in the Sarlaac Pit. The kid and the guards and pit was also very Jabba (palace/dungeon)-Esque.
Its refreshing to see something new from Hammer instead of same old dark mansion formula. Here we get an Edgar Rice Burroughs type story (Hammer would later do a prehistoric film) about a ship that goes back to the days of the Spanish Armada and encounters all kinds of weird animals.
But it is kinda just a haunted-house thing. They're trapped in a small area with unknown evil humans and monsters.
I saw this probably at a Saturday matinee or something when I was much younger and you spelled it out perfectly considering you have also seen it. Keep up the great work and best to you!
6:37
Is it me or was that the dramatic sting from Monty Python and the Holy Grail???
Yes, this was one of the 4 movies that would regularly rotate on Saturday Science Fiction theater. The Lost Contenent, The Valley of Gwangi, 7 Faces of Dr. Lao, and Green Slime!
I saw that movie on pay TV ages ago. It's actually an quite entertaining old fantasy film.
Unfortunately you can hardly get it on DVD at decent prices. Because the movies of Hammer are always offered for moon prices.
Isn't "el supremo", Pitt the younger from Blackadder II?
Mmmm, Sarah (Dana Gillespie) and her talents buoy this movie up quite well!
Remember to always get drunk and wasted before your next cruise.
Like that Ghost outfit.
When I was little, this movie would be on during rainy days. I recall watching it 2 times during rain days and never knew the name. It took me some time searching to find out what the name of this movie was. Now that I'm older, he is right its very sluggish, wish the would of gotten to the moss island a lot faster. But when I was a kid this notion of an island of living moss/weeds trapping all the old ships and them having to living on it was very interesting.
Its Hammer Time!
I remember seeing this movie back on one star theater after they messed up and show a two star movie. Still loved Hammer films
5:29 Hey, it's before Southwest came with "Gotta Get Away" fares, okay?
You always seem to get me in the first couple minutes. This time Burt Bacharach on acid and then the Wayne's World reference. The best thing is the high level of snark just keeps on coming!
Because of the way you are speaking, it seems you also had access to some of that killer weed! Hahahaha!!!
Harry Tyler played one of my favorite human Doctor Who villains Harrison Chase in The Seeds of Doom
I first saw this movie at the age of six on an Air Force base, and being six years old added a lot to the film....
OH I remember this one, TNT showed it once on there channel, I haven't seen this movie in years!
Dude you seem sooo mellow. Your tone is different than what I expected
😆 at the slide whistle when the scorpion fell
I'd been looking for this move for years. I seen it once and remembered it's weirdness. Thanks
Monty Python reference FTW!
I saw this movie for the first time on TNT's Monster Madness with Jo-Bob Briggs!
As a kid those balloon-headed people and the pointy hat guys freaked me out. Thanks for your review, really no need to revisit if I could ever find the movie again.
4:18 I recognized Victor Maddern (but didn't know his name) it turns out he had a role in The Prisoner.
A Doug McClure movie entirely with out him.
He worked with dick emery a British comedy actor.
I saw this at age 7 or 8 in the Bay Theatre in Morro Bay and was confused a/f for the following 45 years. Love that loopy font for the credits. Happiness is a Warm Puppy, indeed. So many layers of wierd, thanks internet, you finally proved your worth.
I love this film, I was 7 and it was one of the 1st Hammer films I saw. Definitely a turn-your-brain-off movie.
Creepy mustache guy really looks like he'd be into ancient ALIENS!
One of the actors here is Mud, from Star Trek TOS chapter I Mudd
And the big sea weed spot is called the Sargasso apparently is was an issue back in the day
It made an appearance in jules vernes 20000 leagues under the sea
It's an all right movie of its type. It had a sense of gloom.
Could you review '5 million years to earth'?
This plays like it was a book and I kind of wonder if it might be one of those long lost 20,000 leagues era pulp books
They still make movies today.
Yeah they made The Woman in Black I think
I looked at IMDB. Eric Porter (the captain) won the British version of the Oscar just before this movie. I guess this is an earlier version of Halle Berry''s choice of Catwoman after winning the Oscar for Monsters' Ball.
Eric Porter went on to play Professor Moriarty in the Grenada TV series “Sherlock Holmes” starring Jeremy Brett as Sherlock. Porter was a great actor, but even he couldn’t save this “Lost Continent” mess.
@@brianbommarito3376 THANK YOU! I was wondering if I'd be the only one to mention it. Not entirely sure, but I think he won the BAFTA award for the orig Forsythe Saga. SO, technically, he won the Brit version of the GOlden Globe.
@@brianbommarito3376Jeremy Brett is my favourite TV Holmes.
Eric Porter was a renowned Shakespearean actor and also the quintessential Moriarty in "Sherlock Holmes" TV series. He was also in the original Forsythe Saga and the acclaimed The Jewel in The Crown TV series. A talented actor who worked with all the greats in his day. He probably got a good laugh from this though he was in The Hands of The Ripper , also by Hammer.
*"The"* pronounced *Thee* or *Thuh?*
catching up on older vids. obligatory kudos on the Spanish Inquisition bit.
The Lost Continent- I was expecting a documentary on Australia
Australia doesnt stay lost for very long, you just have to follow the smoke and didgeridoos
Brandon Tenold,
We go were ever the weed takes us.
🤣👍
Dude, i really like your channel
I bet you've never seen or even heard of Hammer,s great comedies like I Only Arsked, Don't Panic Chaps, A Weekend with Lulu, (a favourite of mine) and of course the On the Buses films
And One of the passengers is played by Benito Caruthers who was earlier one of The Dirty Dozen
Wow. This is somehow worse than the Lost Continent on MST3k.
hey, it's not THAT bad.
@@DDlambchop43 Well, this movie DOES have a better theme song
You are right about this movie being hard to find. Before Blu-ray the VHS was $60.
" Now were ever the weed takes us."
Is it just me or does the seaweed sound like it's infested with "Them!"?
They totally wanted to have the kid get eaten by the floor monster near the end but chickened out lol
Great show as always. You may want to try PEA (phenylethylamine)and horedenine. Great way of feeling good.
That crab monster (or whatever it is) reminds me of the aliens from 'Invaders From Mars' (1986).
Nifty, bizzare film. Full of British cinema stalwarts. Worth a watch.
Reminds me of the lounge theme at the end of the Journey to the Seventh Planet. Don't know you you've reviewed that stinker. The Lost Continent was a genuinely entertaining movie....at least growing up with a desire for rubber monsters and space ships guided by strings, I thought it was.