Crystal lasers, pig people, and recycled costumes, oh my! In today’s episode of Torture Cinema, Paul, Alex, Daniel, and the prodigal son, Shaun, gather together to make absolutely sure that the destroyed civilization of Atlantis stays destroyed as they review the disastrous George Pal 1961 disaster movie, Atlantis: The Lost Continent. The team discusses everything from the shoddy world-building, the shaky special effects, the lazy misogyny, and the fact that this movie fails the Bechdel-Wallace test SO BAD that it technically couldn’t even hope to pass it. This movie is apparently so awful that even the director hated it, but Paul is such a clever salesperson that you might actually want to see it by the end of this podcast. Just don’t listen to Shaun. It’s not THAT bad. Really, we swear. (Don’t listen to the narrator of these posts. The movie is totally awful. –Shaun)

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Atlantis: The Lost Continent (1961)(IMDb)

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Here’s another suggestion for Torture Cinema — Rocketship X-M (1950). I’m mostly suggesting it because I’m imagining the epic rant Alex could go on about a film that features a woman who is an astronaut being asked “What does a woman need to go on space trips and fill her pretty little head with facts and figures for?” and honestly, that rant is all I want for Christmas, please and thank you.

Torture Cinema #83: Atlantis: The Lost Continent (1961)

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Vanessa says:

October 15, 2018 at 3:03 pm

Here’s another suggestion for Torture Cinema — Rocketship X-M (1950). I’m mostly suggesting it because I’m imagining the epic rant Alex could go on about a film that features a woman who is an astronaut being asked “What does a woman need to go on space trips and fill her pretty little head with facts and figures for?” and honestly, that rant is all I want for Christmas, please and thank you.