In today’s Shocktober Double Feature, we will be awestruck by rampaging dinosaurs, the always-scrumptious Hillary Brooke, disintegrating gravity plates, and a pre-Jaws Richard Kiel! It’s Lost Continent and The Phantom Planet!
Lost Continent is a film that I used to love as a kid but hadn’t seen in over 40 years. I still remembered parts of it vividly, however, especially the gripping image of a man falling to his doom through a covering of cloud, and wondered if it would hold up all these years later.
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