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The lost voyage

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The SS Corona Queen has returned... but it is not alone...

On 9 September 1971, the SS Corona Queen left New Jersey for a three-day trip to Bermuda. 72 hours later the ship disappeared in the middle of an area known as the Bermuda Triangle. As the years past, the Corona Queen incident became a maritime disaster shrouded in mystery.

30 years later Aaron Roberts (Judd Nelson) has become an expert on the SS Corona Queen incident. His hypothesis on the event has made him famous in the world of un-explained incident debunking. Aaron's theory is that the Corona Queen incident was simply a combination of miscalculations and bad judgment by the Captain that lead to the crew and the passengers abandoning the ship and all being drowned in a hurricane. Unknown to many of his colleagues, Aaron's search for the truth has been driven by the fact that his parents were on board the Corona Queen when it disappeared.

Dana Elway (Janet Gunn), like Aaron, is an expert on unexplained events. She has dedicated her life to finding answers to mysteries that seem to have no logical explanation. But unlike Aaron, she has a different theory on what happened that night 30 years ago on the SS Corona Queen. She believes that an unknown power was onboard the ship. Something that was part of an ancient relic was being covertly taken out of the USA aboard the ship.

Now the SS Corona Queen has returned. Alone and adrift in the middle of the Atlantic, the mysterious vessel has reappeared after vanishing nearly 30 years before. Now Aaron and Dana are about to launch a mission to this derelict ship to find out what really happened. What they are about to find is that the SS Corona Queen has not returned alone.

Also starring Jeff Kober as Dazinger, Mark Sheppard as Ian Fields, Richard Gunn as Randall Banks, Scarlett Chorvat as Julie Largo, Lance Henriksen as David Shaw, Robert Pine as Mike Kaplan, Wendy Robie as Mary Burnett, Ray Laska as Parker Roberts, Bill Livingston as the helicopter pilot, Ron Otis as the navigator, Donna Magnani as Cheryl Roberts and Mason Lucero as young Aaron. Written and directed by Christian McIntire.

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Intelligence analyst

Secret Agent Acid Thunder

Theatrical report

What a bad movie. I passed this one off onto two people who assured me that they would be able to write a review for it. They thought that it was so bad that I should have to sit through it and be the harbinger of death.

And so, it is my extreme pleasure to proscribe Judd and Jeff from ever making another film. They are sentenced to double the duration of Mike Downey Junior's next incarceration. They are sentenced to the cruel and unusual punishment of watching their own video for the duration of the term.

Furthermore, I sentence Rocvale Films and Oceanbound Productions to refund in full the price of admission and/or hire paid by anyone and everyone to see this film, after which, they will never produce or distribute another motion picture, made for TV movie or direct to video film again.

NB: The ship was originally called the Tampa, but given Little Johnny Howard's attack on a Norwegian ship of that name (carrying 400 innocent refugees), this ship is now the Corona Queen.

Public response

Christian

Regarding your review of The lost voyage, it is apparent that the reviewer did not even watch the movie, or he might have commented on the story (which does not match your synopsis) and the acting. What a disservice to your readers to allow a bad review to go out of a movie that you haven't even watched.

Intelligence analyst

Secret Agent Acid Thunder

Theatrical report

Thank you very much for your input. FYI, I barely made it through the film after stopping and starting it twice. As for the "story", it's very simple: yet another Bermuda Triangle B-grade film. Some people defy the "taboo" of the Bermudans, go on a trip and try to once again prove that the Bermuda Triangle is just a myth... with a twist - that has a way of showing up in every Bermuda Triangle oriented film! - the blond bombshell and the unsuspecting hero make it out alive even though the people who were just as normal as they succumbed to the "magic" of a cruise vessel that disappeared some 30 years ago. Then, they reappear floating in a boat for who knows how long - according to locals four years minus the usual 3-days for the horror film to unfold. They are alive. Where is the practicality of this movie? Even in Joe versus the volcano Tom Hanks could hardly have survived that long with only a couple of bottles of Perrier.

Since you seem to be some of the people who enjoy B-grade films, be it for personal enjoyment or university studies, I commend you for having the stamina to make it through such a boring, been-there-done-that-a-thousand-times-over Hollywood production. As for Hollywood, I would like to add that this film was produced on the tail-end of the writers and actors strike. Should either of these not been set in place, this movie would have been filed under "G" as soon as it left the envelope in the studio's mail room!

I assure all of you who appreciate the effort that craig has gone though to post such a wide-variety site, that if I have not seen a film, I never take credit for the review! I will never stoop to plagiarism, as it's not only a legal but also a moral crime! I would hope that you all keep sending in your criticisms of my writing abilities and please send in your own thoughts about any film that has been reviewed here.

Media intelligence (DVD)

  • *

Security censorship classification

MA 15+ (Medium level violence, supernatural theme, medium level coarse language)

Surveillance time

92 minutes (1:32 hours)

Not for public release in Australia before date

VHS rental: 14 November 2001
DVD retail: 13 March 2002

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