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The Land That Time Forgot
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Sun 26 Oct 3:00 PM
The Mercury
General Admission
Unclassified 15+
90 Mins October
The chaos at the heart of Anthony Frith’s AFF-premiering documentary Mockbuster can be blamed on The Asylum’s The Land That Time Forgot, the cult studio’s first Australian feature. Working for The Asylum while simultaneously filming Mockbuster, Frith directs this delirious slice of pulp spectacle that features a cameo by eighties icon Michael Pare (Eddie and the Cruisers, The Virgin Suicides).
An Australian naval crew are ambushed by a Russian submarine, but after fighting back they are wrecked on a mysterious island inhabited by dinosaurs and dangerous, time-travelling castaways. Shot entirely in suburban Adelaide, Morialta caves become lairs, Hallett Cove cliffs a raptor battleground, and Tea Tree Gully’s neatly mown parkland a prehistoric jungle. Filled with Molotov cocktails, camp accents and incomprehensible technobabble, The Land That Time Forgot doubles as both a spectacle in its own right and a gleeful follow-up to the peek behind the curtain of Mockbuster.
Come for the dinosaur kills, stay for the plot holes. Schlock cinema at its finest.
An Australian naval crew are ambushed by a Russian submarine, but after fighting back they are wrecked on a mysterious island inhabited by dinosaurs and dangerous, time-travelling castaways. Shot entirely in suburban Adelaide, Morialta caves become lairs, Hallett Cove cliffs a raptor battleground, and Tea Tree Gully’s neatly mown parkland a prehistoric jungle. Filled with Molotov cocktails, camp accents and incomprehensible technobabble, The Land That Time Forgot doubles as both a spectacle in its own right and a gleeful follow-up to the peek behind the curtain of Mockbuster.
Come for the dinosaur kills, stay for the plot holes. Schlock cinema at its finest.
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