Top 10 Points of Note about Journey to the Center of the Earth:

10: After director Rusty Lemorande completed half of the project, the film was abandoned. Director Albert Pyun was brought on, and he tried to make the film a sequel to Alien from L.A.. The result is an aggressively confusing mish-mash of broken plot lines and required ADR.

9: Comedian Emo Phillips is top billed as “Nimrod” both on Letterbox’d and Wikipedia, but appears in the movie for about a second, and has no lines.

2: Stars Ilan Mitchell-Smith (the kid from Weird Science that isn't Anthony Michael Hall), truly the Andrew Ridgeley of 80's movies.

11: In true Cannon fashion, reuses music from Avenging Force and American…

I enjoyed this Franken-sequel to Alien from L.A. more than the first movie even though it's an unfinished film by Rusty Lemorande that Albert Pyun finished on the cheap using the same sets and supporting cast from Alien from L.A. Even after the rescue job, there was only about seventy minutes of footage followed by a montage of whatever footage they had left, even the outtakes, to try to get to a theatrical running time (they made it to 80 minutes, by running the slowest and longest list of credits I think I've ever seen. No whiny-voiced Kathy Ireland here, instead we have Nicola Cowper, a British nanny who is hired to take care of a punk rocker's dog in…

By rights, this is a film that shouldn't have even been released to the public.

Decades later, it's still hard to find the full details on what exactly went wrong here. The story goes something like this: director Rusty Lemorande was hired to direct an adaptation of "Journey to the Center of Earth" for producers Golan & Globus under their notorious Cannon Films label. I've read at least two accounts of why this film was never completed: one states that after 40 days of shooting, the producers were dissatisfied with the results and lacked faith in Lemorande to finish the project. Another suggests Cannon Films simply ran out of money to finish the complicated special effects required for the film—however, since…

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“What the hell was that?” - Everyone who has ever watched JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH.

Behold! Not since the beautiful oeuvre of ROBOVAMPIRE’s mastermind Godfrey Ho has a film been so frankensteined into a snarling horror of incomprehensibility!

The story goes that screenwriter Rusty Lemorande (What a name) started directing a family friendly adaption of Jules Verne’s JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH in the style of Jim Henson's LABYRINTH. The poster for Rusty's version promised puppets, adventure and Emo Phillips. Unfortunately, for reasons I…

two imdb trivia items:
"According to director Rusty Lemorande, only the first eight minutes of this film were directed by him. The rest of it is the sequel to the Kathy Ireland vehicle Alien from L.A. (1988) directed by Albert Pyun, which was tacked on by the producers and renamed "Journey to the Center of the Earth" in order to fulfill contracts with foreign distributors."

"Director Albert Pyun hated how the studio took his film from him and spliced it with another film to just to have it released. Because of this he has disowned it and his name doesn't appear on any official releases."

so, once the kids get to the center of the earth it's really obvious who…

Das englische Kindermädchen Crystina, muß auf Hawaii auf den Hund eines Rockstars aufpassen. Durch verschiedene Ereignisse landet sie, mit drei Geschwistern, in einer Höhle. Durch ein Erdbeben landet Crystina und einer der Geschwister in Atlantis, am Mittelpunkt der Erde.

Abenteuer-Fantasy Film von 1989, gedreht in Südafrika und lose basierend auf J.Verne's Roman. A.Pyun führte, bei diesem "Machwerk", Regie.

Die "Cannon Group" produziert hier wieder, aber mit erheblichen Problemen. Die Entstehungs Geschichte ist mal wieder interessanter als der Film selbst.

Kurz zusammengefasst: A.Pynn drehte Alien from L.A. 2, verließ dann aus Gründen den Film. R.Lemorande drehte einen "Reise zum M. ..." Film, verließ diesen auch aus Gründen. A.Pynn kehrte zurück und machte aus zwei unfertigen Filmem einen. Also ist das gesehene…