Sending a dive bell underwater in a Blood 'N' Bubbles movie is like waving a red flag at a bull. Before you can say olé some beast is pawing the ground and getting ready to attack. In this month's movie, the descending bathysphere quickly attracts the attention of a belligerent sea serpent. Before too long the dive bell is sent plummeting towards the ocean floor. The19th century divers inside the suspiciously spacious bathysphere swim upwards into a cave where they discover the five remaining lost cities of Atlantis. Before the movie ends the trio will encounter a killer giant octopus, psychic Atlanteans from Mars and a number of beautiful slave girls.

Warlords of Atlantis aka Seven Cities to Atlantis. Columbia, EMI Director Kevin Connor released this movie in 1978, Starring Doug McClure, Peter Gilmore, Shane Rimmer, and Cyd Charisse. This was the fourth in a series of period lost world films that began with The Land that Time Forgot in 1974 and carried on through At the Earth's Core (1976) and The People that Time Forgot (1977). Warlords of Atlantis is a classic Blood 'N' Bubbles baddie. The movie is set in 1896 where an aging Professor and his son charter an expedition aboard an American boat. They descend into the depths in an experimental bathysphere designed by engineer Greg Collinson (Doug McClure). The diving bell is cut loose from the mother ship and plunges downward. The trio swim up into the bottom of a cave and find the five remaining of the seven sunken cities of Atlantis. As they marvel at the Atlantean super-science, they learn that the Atlanteans are really survivors from a dying Mars who are using their superior mental abilities to influence the outcome of human history and bring out mankind's most warlike tendencies.

The diving scenes aren't very good, the diving bell is suspiciously spacious and the director's handling of what is up and what is down is all upside down! The monsters are just blow ups of little lizards and watch out for the stereotypical giant octopus!

Rating 1 Bubble.

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