"Strange Sargasso Sea movie...Help" Topic

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There was this very strange movie about a tramp steamer that gets stuck or stalled in this wierd "Sargasso Sea" like place full of trapped ships. At some point, a group of people that live there attack the ship by "walking" across the seaweed wearing big snowshoe type footgear and two (hot air?)ballons on their backs. These people nab some folks and were going to kill them( or sacrifice) by throwing them to a creature( or creatures) in the hold of an old sailing ship. I saw this film on T.V. when I was a kid in the 1970's…WHAT THE HECK WAS IT!!

This isn't "The Lost Conintnent" perhaps?

imdb.com/title/tt0063240

I remember an old comic book like that and now that you mention it the movie sound familiar too. But I can't think of the name.

That's the one. Great bad movie. Bunch of Spaniards, descendants of original shipwrecks, still think the Spanish Inquisition is going on, and their leader is an insane child who's got himself elected Pope or something…

Love to have that one on DVD, myself…

Sounds like a great scenario!

Yeah, but EVERYTHING is "difficult terrain," and movement is awfully slow…

I remember catching this on late late night tv. "ADULT THEATER" My adolescent brain was praying for boobage and was sadly disappointed.
but I did get to see a pretty neat monster film so it all balanced out and I didnt have to go shoot up my classmates for revenge.

It's available from Netflix, if you want to check it out.

Oh, and be careful, there are at least two films named "Lost Continent". You want the 1968 version. The 1951 version is also interesting, but it's not set in the Sargasso Sea.

Thanks everyone!! I've wanted to know what that movie was for decades!!

Dr. Bedlam mentioned parts that I remember, but since I was a little kid when I saw it my memory is a bit foggy on the exact plot.

It does have some good gaming potential.

I seem to recall that movie…DDW would love it – didn't the monster have big tentacles?

I believe it did. It kind of looked like Star Wars' Sarlacc, but with jaws that opened and closed.

Found it. Fastforwarded through to refresh my memory.

A mutiny takes place on a steamship, which gets stuck in the Sargasso Sea amid a mass of soap opera happenings native to Hammer films of the time period. Out of nowhere, a woman with enormous breasts comes, wearing balloons and big webby snowshoes, seeking help, and warning our heroes that she is being pursued by those seeking to kill her.

These are the servants of the Mad Child Pope, who likes to feed apostates, criminals, and the occasional woman with huge breasts to the Sargasso Sarlacc, whose face has grafted itself to the bilges on one of the Spanish galleons.

The movie kind of takes a veering new direction at this point, with soap opera shifting to action adventure; the evil mad Spanish descendants survive by raiding other ships that get caught in the Sargasso, and our heroes are now on the menu, so to speak.

The woman with huge breasts actually acts as a sort of distraction to all this, as she is dressed in a way that shows yawning cleavage no matter what the camera angle.

I have now retitled this film, in my head, THE BREASTS THAT TIME FORGOT.