Post by Prime etc. on Dec 19, 2020 19:19:27 GMT
11. THE LOST CONTINENT 1968 is the most risk taking of films ever made. In Hollywood, the cigarette industry always reigned supreme. Extras who wanted to survive to the next scene in a war movie would light up cigarettes so that the tobacco industry would make sure they would make it out alive. Here, two characters are killed immediately after lighting up cigarettes, and one wonders how that possibly got past the censors? Well, it didn't. The censors tried to keep this film banned, but gave other reasons, notably the "balloon girl". The characters make this a classic.
7. ISLAND OF THE BURNING DOOMED 1967 stars Cushing and Lee, but they are actually minor characters against the backdrop of terror on this island. Easy to couple with the #8 film in that regard. This one shows more of the characters after the disaster begins, though
Funny to see these two on someone else's list besides my own.
Both films are unique in how the eccentric characters dominate the story so much, the sci-fi plot seems secondary.
Best line in the former:
"Soon you will all feel the iron hand of El Supremo!"
and the latter:
"Well he can't come you selfish bitch, he's dead!"