The Lost Continent poster

The Lost Continent

A living hell that time forgot!

5.6(59)19681h 29m3

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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Status
Released
Budget
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Box office
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Language
English
  • monster
  • red hair
  • alien life-form
  • time hole
  • shark
  • sea monster
  • seaweed
  • lost world
  • giant crab

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United Kingdom, United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • Theatrical19 Jun 1968
  • United KingdomGB

    • TheatricalLonger, 97-minute edit27 Jul 1968
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical162 Aug 1968

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The Lost Continent was released on 19 June 1968.

Audience reviews

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  • J

    John Chard

    12/7/2015

    7/10

    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, be…

  • W

    Wuchak

    12/15/2020

    7/10

    _**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 protagonists eventually becom…

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