Written By: Ken HulseySources: Paul Bales / Avery Guerra
You can say what you will about some of The Asylum's other films, like "Transmorphers" and "Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus", but their remake of the 1974 Amicus film, "The Land That Time Forgot" looks pretty damn awesome.
The film, which stars, and is directed by, C. Thomas Howell, is a modern take on the original film, which is based on Edgar Rice Burrough's 1918 short story.
Here is my synopsis of the original "The Land That Time Forgot":
The films plot is a strait forward Burroughs adventure story. The survivors of a torpedoed allied cargo ship turn the tables on their attackers and seize control of their U-boat. The Germans manage to damage the ships compass and instead of steaming to a neutral port the group finds itself of the coast of the legendary island Caprona where time has stood still since prehistoric times. Forced to venture ashore in search of food, supplies and fuel the crew encounters a bevy of dinosaurs that intend on making sure no one escapes alive. As in all good adventure stories of this type just about everything and everyone the group encounters is set on doing them mortal harm and danger lies behind every turn. The groups focus is a simple a straight forward one. Keep from being eaten and figure out a way to get off the island before it consumed in a river of molten rock.
The CGI dinosaurs in this one look pretty good and the bits that we get to see in the trailer have me kinda stoked to see what the entire film has in store for us.
I really liked the fact that they included the German U-Boat from the original film in this remake. I was actually very pleasantly surprised when I saw it in the trailer.
Paul Bales of The Asylum was cool enough to supply us with the first images of the dinosaurs from "The Land That Time Forgot", plus the films trailer:
I'd like to get excited by the movie - but then I'd been excited by MegaShark vs Giant Octupus, until I saw it. Still, kudoes to them for not updating it with skanky teenagers..
ReplyDeleteI agree that this looks to be pretty good, Ken, and also agree with Derek about the "zygote-free" cast;0) for a welcome change. Looks like The Asylum might be coming around.
ReplyDeleteNow, if only I could interest them in making a movie about a certain atomically mutated Megalania that we know.......
My sentiments exactly, Derek. But I'd like to add that it's not unreasonable to think that Asylum likely put the best dino moments for "The Dinosaurs That Time Forgot" in the trailer, just like they did for "Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus", which means that we've probably now seen the best the film has to offer. And it doesn't look like much.
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