The Lost Continent is a 1968 Hammer Films fantasy adventure movie directed by Michael Carreras, based on the novel Uncharted Seas by Dennis Wheatley. The film deals with a group of passengers on a ship that gets lost in the Sargasso Sea (a Bermuda Triangle-like part of the North Atlantic Ocean) alongside giant sea monsters and Spanish Conquistadores.
Not to be confused with the 1951 American film Lost Continent.
This film provides examples of:
- Brown Face: Most of the Spanish characters are Anglo-Saxons with brown make-up.
- Derelict Graveyard: Lots and lots of ghost ships.
- Giant Enemy Crab: Giant crab monsters are part of the deathly fauna.
- Giant Squid: The giant octopus (and is a Cyclops too).
- Left Hanging: The movie has an Open Ending as is never shown if the characters manage to return to civilization.
- Man-Eating Plant: the Seaweed.
- Not Even Bothering with the Accent: The antagonists are a remnant of a fleet of Spanish Conquistadors who got trapped in the Sargasso Sea for centuries. Not a single actor of said faction has a Spanish accent, or can say a single Spanish word fluently.
- Sea Monster: The giant crabs and the octopus.
- Sexual Extortion: A character finds out that a woman passenger robbed some money and blackmails her sexually.
