Floating through Wikipedia, as I'm prone to do once I'm on a rolling wave, I went from "shipping" to "Bermuda Triangle" to "Sargasso Sea" and ended up on "The Lost Continent (1968 film)". That entertaining motion picture, produced by Hammer Films — wonderful Hammer Films — and Seven Arts Productions, captured me when I first saw it in my early teens.
I read its Wiki entry....
Basic plot details took me back to fantastic imagery: wrecked ships (it is the Sargasso Sea, after all); conquistadors; people sporting "buoyancy balloons" (fantastic!); pirates; priests; and Spanish ladies (marketing, my boys!).
I decided right there that I had to see this film again.
Then I read further:
"... adrift in a morass of large sentient carnivorous seaweed...."
Carnivorous seaweed?!
(Sentient carnivorous seaweed?!!)
(Large sentient carnivorous seaweed?!!!)
What the?....
Should I even click on that?
With my cursor, and some trepidation, I touched the link.
Oh, it's two separate words, links: "carnivorous"; "seaweed".
That makes more sense... and makes me feel a lot better about swimming in the ocean. (Regular seaweed doesn't bother me. Key word: "bother.")
I'll probably avoid the Sargasso Sea. But I won't avoid The Lost Continent.
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