Ben Carruthers, Dana Gillespie, Eric Porter, Hildegard Knef, James Cossins ...( see more  see more... ) , Jimmy Hanley , Neil McCallum , Nigel Stock , Suzanna Leigh , Tony Beckley , Victor Maddern

Hammer Studios prefigured both the explosion of Bermuda Triangle thrillers and "lost world" adventures with this appropriately gothic 1968 fantasy. Eric Porter stars as the brooding captain of a decre...( read more  read more... )pit scow smuggling illegal explosives with a questionable crew and a desperate cadre of passengers (including Hildegard Kneff, Suzanna Leigh, and Tony Beckley) into a hurricane. The initial melodrama turns to high-seas adventure as the ship battles the storm with volatile cargo and finally to a strange, moody fantasy. The ship becomes entangled in a creeping tangle of aggressive weeds that pulls the vessel deep into a twilight world of monstrous mollusks, snakelike vines with a taste for human flesh, and an insular society descended from rogue elements of the Spanish Inquisition who prey upon the unlucky ships dragged to their hidden island. Rotting galleons set against the creepy orange sky create an unsettling, alien world, like a psychedelic spin on Jules Verne. If the film doesn't match the chills of earlier Hammer thrillers, it more than makes up for it in pure atmosphere and eerie mood. --Sean Axmaker

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G, 97 min.

Directed by: Michael Carreras

Release Date: June 19, 1968

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DVD Release Date: November 16, 1999

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  • January 8, 2009
    Cool monsters and hot babes here! a nice hammer production! After the hurricane the crew is trapped by Sargassi's Sea and has to survive ! They fights vs Rebels, monsters and a xvi century single-minded ppl who's controlled from a fucked Inquisition's preacher.
    good.
  • December 7, 2008
    The first Hammer film I ever saw! Saw it on late-night TV when I was about 7 and it's been a favorite since!
  • June 20, 2008
    Fun for those low expection evenings.
  • November 1, 2007
    Not interested. I usually avoid horror movies.
  • October 11, 2007
    Incredible to say the least. A group of assorted seedy characters, cast adrift after a ships mutiny, come across a lost race of people living in the wilds of the Sargasso Sea, and also various assorted monsters including a giant scorpion, a giant crab, sharks and an early versio...( read more)n of the Sarllac.
    The lost tribe cross over the carniverous( yes it eats flesh!)seaweed by attaching Helium baloons to their bodies.
    Completely mad, and a very enjoyable watch
  • June 3, 2007
    Rock climbing, friends
  • February 10, 2007
    Might be worth a viewing
  • November 15, 2006
    another guilty pleasure film

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