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| 3 | ''The Lost Continent'' is a 1968 [[Film/HammerHorror Hammer Films]] fantasy adventure movie directed by Michael Carreras, based on the novel ''Literature/UnchartedSeas'' by Creator/DennisWheatley. The film deals with a group of passengers on a ship that gets lost in the Sargasso Sea (a BermudaTriangle-like part of the North Atlantic Ocean) alongside giant sea monsters and Spanish Conquistadores. |
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| 5 | Not to be confused with the 1951 American film ''Film/LostContinent''. |
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| 8 | !!This film provides examples of: |
| 9 | * BrownFace: Most of the Spanish characters are Anglo-Saxons with brown make-up. |
| 10 | * DerelictGraveyard: Lots and lots of ghost ships. |
| 11 | * GiantEnemyCrab: Giant crab monsters are part of the deathly fauna. |
| 12 | * GiantSquid: The giant octopus (and is a {{Cyclops}} too). |
| 13 | * LeftHanging: The movie has an Open Ending as [[spoiler:is never shown if the characters manage to return to civilization.]] |
| 14 | * ManEatingPlant: the Seaweed. |
| 15 | * NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: The antagonists are [[TheRemnant 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. |
| 16 | * SeaMonster: The giant crabs and the octopus. |
| 17 | * SexualExtortion: A character finds out that a woman passenger robbed some money and blackmails her sexually. |
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