I Watch Films: The Lost Continent
This is a Hammer film based on a Dennis Wheatley novel (called Uncharted Seas, a title that perhaps better represents the setting). A group of mis-matched characters trying to leave various troubles behind catch a tramp freighter from Freetown to Caracas. In the hold is some explosive phosphorous. A hurricane comes, the ship leaks, the crew try to flee in a lifeboat and they end up stuck in the enormous weed forest of a/the Sargasso sea.
There’s carnivorous weed, a giant octopus, a giant crab, and some pirates who are the descendents of conquistadores. To walk across the weed people wear harnesses with buoyancy balloons to lessen their weight, a much cooler and more interesting visual than maybe snow-shoe like weight spreaders which would be more practical and in keeping with 16th century technology.
The ending was a bit confused.
Watch This: For a silly, nonsensical, melodramatic sea adventure
Don’t Watch This: If you want it to make sense.
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