JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH The Asylum’s version – free on YouTube

  

Journey to the Center of the Earth is a 2008 sci-fi action adventure film in which explorers encounter monsters.

A mockbuster, it was released to capitalise on the much bigger-budgeted film of the same title starring Brendan Fraser. In the UK, it was released as Journey to Middle Earth.

Directed by David Jones and Scott Wheeler. The film is a very loose adaptation of the 1864 novel Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne, although it bears a close similarity to At the Earth’s Core, a similar 1914 novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It is also the second film by The Asylum to be based on a Jules Verne novel, the first being 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

The Anthill Productions-The Asylum co-production stars Greg Evigan, Dedee Pfeiffer, Vanessa Lee Evigan, Caroline Attwood, Amelia Jackson-Gray, Sara Tomko, Vanessa Mitchell and Michael Tower.

Plot:
There are two intertwined subplots: a drilling operation that is taking place in South America, and a rescue mission to save a research team that has been teleported 600 km beneath the Earth’s crust.

The drill, an Argentinian project, is powerful enough to send miniature drills through solid rock at a fast pace and is used to try to rescue the team from their fate. The operation begins, but the drills accidentally break through the Earth’s crust and into the very mantle of the Earth. This is where the operators encounter hidden dangers awaiting them at the Earth’s core. The team has to deal with prehistoric creatures to both save the research team and to return safely to the surface of the Earth…

Teaser trailer:

Full film – free online on YouTube:

Cast and characters:
Greg Evigan … Joseph Harnet; Dedee Pfeiffer … Emily Radford; Vanessa Lee Evigan … Victoria Jansen; Caroline Attwood … Gretchen Lake; Amelia Jackson-Gray … Kate Burroughs; Sara Tomko … Betsey Case; Vanessa Mitchell .. Eve Abraham; Michael Tower … Marty

Filming locations:
Asylum Studios, Los Angeles, California
Belize (stock footage)
Compton Airport, Compton, Los Angeles, California
Wildwood Regional Park, Thousand Oaks, Californi

Technical specs:
1 hour 27 minutes
Aspect ratio: 1.78: 1

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