2025
The Land That Time Forgot
Australian Premiere.
The Asylum’s The Land That Time Forgot unleashes submarines, raptors and pulp spectacle in suburban Adelaide. Directed for the cult studio by Adelaide’s Anthony Frith, the film is also immortalised in his documentary Mockbuster, also premiering at AFF.
Director
Anthony Frith
Runtime
90 Minutes
Country
United States, Australia
Classification
Unclassified 15+
The chaos at the heart of Anthony Frith’s AFF-premiering documentary Mockbuster can be blamed on The Asylum’s The Land That Time Forgot, the cult studio’s first Australian feature. Working for The Asylum while simultaneously filming Mockbuster, Frith directs this delirious slice of pulp spectacle that features a cameo by eighties icon Michael Pare (Eddie and the Cruisers, The Virgin Suicides).
An Australian naval crew are ambushed by a Russian submarine, but after fighting back they are wrecked on a mysterious island inhabited by dinosaurs and dangerous, time-travelling castaways. Shot entirely in suburban Adelaide, Morialta caves become lairs, Hallett Cove cliffs a raptor battleground, and Tea Tree Gully’s neatly mown parkland a prehistoric jungle. Filled with Molotov cocktails, camp accents and incomprehensible technobabble, The Land That Time Forgot doubles as both a spectacle in its own right and a gleeful follow-up to the peek behind the curtain of Mockbuster.
Come for the dinosaur kills, stay for the plot holes. Schlock cinema at its finest.
An Australian naval crew are ambushed by a Russian submarine, but after fighting back they are wrecked on a mysterious island inhabited by dinosaurs and dangerous, time-travelling castaways. Shot entirely in suburban Adelaide, Morialta caves become lairs, Hallett Cove cliffs a raptor battleground, and Tea Tree Gully’s neatly mown parkland a prehistoric jungle. Filled with Molotov cocktails, camp accents and incomprehensible technobabble, The Land That Time Forgot doubles as both a spectacle in its own right and a gleeful follow-up to the peek behind the curtain of Mockbuster.
Come for the dinosaur kills, stay for the plot holes. Schlock cinema at its finest.
“Should have stayed forgotten!”
@paulroberts9483, YouTube
“I think everyone who gave these five stars was held at gunpoint by the director.”
boohtoyourbah, Letterboxd
Film Credits
Director
Anthony Frith
Year
2025
Country
United States & Australia
Language
English
Type
Feature & Fiction
Producer
David Michael Latt
Writer
Dan Telfer
Cinematographer
Aaron Schuppan
Editor
Rob Pallatina
Cast
Michael Paré, Jack Pearson & Lauren Koopowitz
Music
Christopher Cano, Mikel Shane Prather & Chris Ridenhour
Film Source
The Asylum
Genre
Action, Cult & Fantasy
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