# Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror movie buffs...help ID this movie! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 13, 2009, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-fantasy-horror-movie-buffs-help-id-this-movie/499629 "2009-06-13T01:37:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Da\_ICON](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Da\_ICON](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Da_ICON)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2009, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-fantasy-horror-movie-buffs-help-id-this-movie/499629/1 "2009-06-13T01:37:53Z")
Ok, here is the set-up: I saw this movie circa 1979/82 when I was 4-7 yrs old on TV (in Canada…in english). If it helps, I remember all of the actors being caucasian. I remember 3 scenes from this. 1. One scene involved the showing of an old ship sailing through very foggy waters. A young woman sleeping in a berth awakens to find plant ‘tentacles’ reaching through the porthole trying to grab her. 2. Another scene involves a man standing in a courtyard before a ‘King’ and his soldiers. The man is condemned by the King, and thrown into a pit in front of the King. The man drops onto a pile of ‘flapping’ clams and is presumably devoured by these ‘clam’ things. 3. The last scene involves a boiler room of some kind. A couple of thick, white tentacles are snaking in through a large metal box on the side of the wall. A guy in a tuxedo grabs an ax and attempts to hack them off or at least fight them back. All of this sounds like something from Dr. Who maybe, but I am sure it wasn’t that. It was shot in ‘film’, as opposed to ‘video’ for Dr. Who. Unless I have cobbled together 3 seperate memories from different sources I am certain this was a movie I saw in the very early 80’s. Does it ring any bells with anyone?? It has bugged me for many years… \*\*\*These scenes are not necessarily in sequence ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2009, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-fantasy-horror-movie-buffs-help-id-this-movie/499629/2 "2009-06-13T01:53:51Z")
[Lost Continent](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063240/) :o Youtube ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2009, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-fantasy-horror-movie-buffs-help-id-this-movie/499629/3 "2009-06-13T02:00:18Z")
By the way, the whole movie is there in parts. ---
**Author:** ![Da\_ICON](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Da\_ICON](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Da_ICON)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2009, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-fantasy-horror-movie-buffs-help-id-this-movie/499629/4 "2009-06-13T03:24:06Z")
OURYL!!! Oh. My. GAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWDD!!! I just skimmed through all dozen parts on YouTube. THIS IS IT!!! As silly/stupid as it is to post this query…you have to understand. I have been thinking about this movie off and on (certainly not daily or even monthly - probably yearly) for 25+ years! Ever since that day I watched it one weekend afternoon with my father and was scared terribly by it! I saw EVERY scene I described…and although it is different than I remembered there is NO DOUBT this is it! You sir deserve…something. All I can offer is a big, hearty THANK YOU!!! Now I’m off to kick my father in the nuts for letting a 5 yr old watch this 🙂 [csm]you\_rock[/csm] ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2009, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-fantasy-horror-movie-buffs-help-id-this-movie/499629/5 "2009-06-13T18:59:26Z")
I first saw this movie when I was a kid also. Several times. It seemed to attach itself to various Hammer films as a double feature.