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Seven-year-old Tommy Chick was drunk with excitement at the prospect of seeing 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. It would be on Wonderful World of Disney, channel 7, this Sunday night. For as long as he could remember, he had doodled pictures of Captain Nemo’s Nautilus, often in the clutches of a giant squid. And at last, it was going to play out before his very eyes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, Tommy Chick’s mother was adamant that he wouldn’t be allowed to watch it. She was concerned he might be traumatized by scenes of “men eaten alive by a giant squid”, as she put it. As she well knew, Tommy reacted poorly to that sort of thing. He would often refuse to go to bed for fear of some terror he’d seen on TV, often without her supervision, either because she was at work, or maybe he was staying with grandparents, or perhaps he’d strong-armed some babysitter into letting him watch late-night TV despite her adjurations. The little guy was nothing if not headstrong, and he knew how to handle a babysitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His latest trauma had been a scene of a tentacled beast devouring someone from the deck of a tramp steamer, socked in by fog and tangled in man-eating seaweed. A gigantic bulbous head had risen from the choked waters, peering its baleful green eye over the ship’s starboard bulwark, slithering its grasping tentacles across the deck, curling them around the rigging, snatching its prey and dragging him, screaming, overboard. Presumably to be eaten alive. What a horrible thing. Now that Tommy had seen it on TV, he was sure it could just as well happen in a young boy’s bedroom. There would be no going to sleep this night, or any other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tommy’s mother cited this latest fear — death by tentacled beast lurking in a nighttime bedroom — as a rationale to keep him from seeing 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. She wouldn’t relent, despite his wheedling and pleading, his protests, his tantrums. He would not be allowed to watch men eaten alive by a giant squid on Wonderful World of Disney this Sunday night. To enforce this prohibition, that Sunday, she dragged Tommy out of the house to a theater, to a showing of some dumb Robert Redford movie called The Sting. The whole time Tommy fumed and seethed and whined, livid that he wasn’t being allowed to see the Nautilus in action. To this day, George Roy Hill’s The Sting has the stink of frustration and dashed hopes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until recently, I couldn’t identify the movie with the tramp steamer in the fog and the green-eyed beast. But because I know it was the rationale for not being allowed to see 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and because I vividly remember being forced to sit through The Sting in a theater, I knew it couldn’t have been any later than 1973. It would have been on TV in Arkansas by that year. Most of my attempts to Google it — “What is the movie where tentacles attack someone on a ship?” — turned up Deep Rising. But I eventually figured out what it was and, well, I’ve just watched it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lost Continent is a 1968 adventure movie from Hammer Studios, the English house known best for Christopher Lee dracula movies. If we skip past the opening scene, which hints at what a three-ring circus it’s going to become, it’s not a terrible movie as it gets underway. It introduces the seedy tramp steamer Corita slipping past customs one night, departing Sierra Leone for Venezuela, with its dangerous cargo and desperate passengers. One of whom is deliberately shown reading the source material for the movie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dennis Wheatley’s Uncharted Seas was optioned by Hammer Studios and adapted into Lost Continent, as the credits will tell you shortly before the movie shows you. Wheatley was a Brit and a nutball who claimed he got kicked out of college for forming a secret society. He joined the military in time to get gassed at Passchendaele. Then he ran his father’s wine company until it shuttered during the Great Depression. Then he wrote lurid pulp genre about occultists, spies, treasure hunters, murder, mayhem, and so forth. He also designed<\/a> boardgames and even published<\/a> interactive mystery fiction: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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During the 1930s, Wheatley conceived a series of mysteries, presented as case files, including testimonies, letters, and pieces of evidence such as hairs or pills. The reader had to inspect this evidence to solve the mystery before unsealing the last pages of the file, which gave the answer. Four of these ‘Crime Dossiers’ were published: Murder Off Miami, Who Killed Robert Prentice?, The Malinsay Massacre, and Herewith The Clues!. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

100 years later, and that sort of thing is big business. However, Wheatley’s greatest success was as a novelist. Right out of the gate, he sold the rights for his first novel to a young Alfred Hitchcock (although the adaption was later passed along to another director). Lost Continent is one of at least three novels adapted by Hammer Studios, and it’s probably the most ambitious, given that it’s not a bunch of goofy Satanists moseying around and occulting in the English countryside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the Corita hits the open seas and then rough weather, Lost Continent is briefly a disaster movie. So the crew and passengers abandon ship, which turns out to be a big misunderstanding because this isn’t a disaster movie, after all, and the ship doesn’t sink. So they get back onboard, which is a bit embarrassing, like when you decide to leave a party and make a great to-do of saying good-bye to everyone, only to get outside and realize your friend drove you here, and he has no intention of leaving anytime soon, so you have to go back into the party like a dummy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then they discover the titular continent, which they never actually reach because they’re tangled in the man-eating seaweed I mentioned earlier. They discover people have been getting tangled in this man-eating seaweed throughout history, and now it’s a melting pot of Vikings, conquistadors, noble ladies in corseted hoop skirts, an inquisitor in a pointed hood, a king in a poofy hat and pantaloons, and various other folks wearing whatever costumes Hammer Studios found in its extensive wardrobe department. These are people who have learned to navigate the man-eating seaweed with snowshoes and balloons. They all live on a Spanish galleon where the king sometimes feeds one of them to a seaweed sarlacc under a hatch in the throne room. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the newcomers from the Corita engage in cultural differences with this established monarchy, the captain addresses the fracas from a balcony. “What kind of a circus is this?”, he hollers, echoing what the audience is thinking. Here’s the reverse shot of everyone reacting to his query:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Which is less a query and more like a coach at half-time admonishing his team. The fracas resumes and the Corita-ites escape though a stained-glass window. They board a makeship raft with a makeship catapult on it. The catapult lobs yellow tins of explosives — the Corita’s dangerous cargo — into the galleon. This allows Hammer Studios to blow up a miniature galleon for Lost Continent’s big finale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The ship miniatures are actually the best effects in Lost Continent. The second-best effects are the sweat, which is rarely seen in modern movies because celebrities and Mary Sues don’t sweat. Here’s our hero, the Corita’s captain, who presumably got the part because he looks like a lumpy Sean Connery:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That’s perspiration! Lost Continent is a movie where men’s shirts stick to their skin, even though women are always neatly powdered and coiffed. Only men experience the humidity of the sea, but they sure do experience it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The least best effects are the monsters. Although the man-eating seaweed was kind of cool because it chitters when it’s hungry. It sounds like the “tripods” from 1953’s War of the Worlds, which made a hollow rattlesnake noise<\/a> produced by playing stringed instruments, running the tape backwards, and distorting it with feedback. There’s one scene where the man-eating seaweed bursts into the Corita through a porthole and infests a cabin:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’m pretty sure I’ve been in that very situation in multiple Residents Evil! But then there are a couple of monsters that show Lost Continent’s sad B-movie roots. Here’s a crab thing that just sits on a rock and waves claws waiting for an actor to fling himself into one of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here’s the tentacle attack that freaked me out when I was seven. You can barely see anything in the fog. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’m slightly mortified that the tentacle scene is so laughably bad, that it’s such a Corman-esque B-movie shrug. No one at Hammer Studios seems to have cared. It shows no love of craftsmanship or trickery. The puppeteering on the tentacles is strictly half-assed jiggling, and the two actors who are attacked have to do all the work, just like poor Bela Lugosi in Bride of the Monster. The actress has to twirl around like a ballerina to get the tentacle to wrap around her. There are even insert shots of the big stupid rubber head with its green eye so you can see it clearly.  It’s a scene that doesn’t give a fuck, much less a thrill. Lost Continent didn’t have the budget to do more, and Hammer Studios didn’t seem to care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I didn’t fully appreciate the context until this credit in the title sequence:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I recognize Mattey’s name. He was an accomplished animatronics engineer who cut his teeth on Disney’s theme park attractions in the 50s. For Lost Continent, he was probably doing the best he could with the meager resources and even more meager creative vision at Hammer Studios. And if you want to see a best-case scenario for a giant beast attacking a ship from the era of practical effects, you can look back in Mattey’s career to the squid attack in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, from 1954, which I wasn’t allowed to watch even though no one is killed, much less “eaten alive”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mattey was actually a late addition to the 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea shoot, which was a big gamble as one of Disney’s earliest and most expensive live-action movies. The squid attack was always going to be the big set piece at the end of the movie, and it was originally written to take place under a foreboding blood-red sky at sunset. A water set was built on one of the Disney’s sound stages, with a full-scale Nautilus and forty-foot squid in a pool dug 18-feet deep. A team of puppeteers operated the heavy tentacles that got increasingly water-logged and stiff as the shoot went on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The scene looked absurd. Risible. The actors fighting it looked foolish. You can see the footage here<\/a>. The producers at Disney knew they had a B-movie stinker on their hands. So they rewrote the scene to take place at night, during a storm, where the squid could only be seen through sheets of rain and flashes of lightning. And they called in Mattey, known for his theme park work, to redesign the squid. He gave it lighter tentacles, which could be inflated and animated with vacuum hoses, which had springed joints to make them writhe more convincingly. The 28 puppeteers operating the tentacles had an easier time of it, and the actors looked less foolish. A wavemaker churned up the pool. Airplane engines with massive caged propellers whipped the choppy water into the semblance of a storm. The camera was wrapped in a waterproof box and mounted on a crane that could move to simulate the Nautilus pitching and rolling on the rough seas. Although the cost overruns ballooned, the backers loved the new footage and even diverted money from Disney’s growing theme parks. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was saved. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it must have looked convincing to audiences in 1954. Besides, back then, who among them had seen a cephalopod in motion? I don’t care for the movie, but for reasons that have nothing to do with Mattey’s work, and everything to do with moviemaking in the 50s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I didn’t get to see it on Wonderful World of Disney in 1973, because my mother dragged me out to see The Sting with Robert Redford. I’d been pre-traumatized by Mattey’s later, lower budget, and far inferior work. But Mattey wasn’t done with me. My trauma would be renewed and stronger than ever two years later, when he was hired by Universal Pictures to design an animatronic shark for a movie called Jaws. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jaws taught me to dread and love horror movies. It’s where I learned to process, overcome, and eventually enjoy them. When my mother accompanied me to the theatre one summer day in 1975, to see a movie adaptation of a killer shark book I’d read, I kept my eyes closed during much of its running time. I literally hid behind the seats after the shark surprises Brody while he’s slinging chum. I didn’t come out until the credits rolled, at which point my mother had to tell me what had happened. I’d only heard it and I knew that it was all horrible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I had to see. So that summer, I went to the theater again and again, often alone and riding my bike, seeing the movie repeatedly until I could keep my eyes open the entire time. Until I’d seen the entirety of Jaws. Mattey’s Lost Continent might have broken me, but his Jaws built me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many years later, in 2012, I’m in a theater with the family of a close friend, seated next to his seven-year-old son. We’re seeing Pixar’s Brave. Merida has just discovered a strange stonehenge. A string of eerie will-o’-the-wisps leads away into the darkness of a nearby forest. The wisps glow blue and murmur mysteriously. The shadowy forest thrums with malevolence. The boy next to me whimpers in fear. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I whispered something reassuring to him, but I don’t know if it registered for him. I don’t remember what my mother might have whispered to me in that theater in 1975. I remember even less what was going on when I saw Lost Continent on TV, whether a babysitter ridiculed me, whether I was alone because I’d refused to go to bed, whether my younger sister might have been watching it with me on one of our grandfather’s many TVs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Merida follows the wisps and it turns out the woods aren’t malevolent at all. She discovers a comedically goofy witch who teaches her valuable life lessons. But for that brief period, as she looks uncertainly down the line of wisps luring her into something dark and unknown, it was as effective a horror scene as I’ve ever seen because it terrified the seven-year-old next to me, because I heard him whimper, because I remembered what he must have been feeling at that moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alas, to be genuinely frightened at such a scene, to fear the woods instead of what they represent, to fear the fantastical instead of destitution, insolvency, loneliness, cancer, mortality. Alas, to fear once more the mere metaphor. Horror isn’t just a genre; it’s a search.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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