Hollow Earth films
The world is hollow like an Easter Egg (of there are deep systems of tunnels we don't know about - the Honeycomb Earth) and these films reveal what lies within, honest. ;)
Inclusion criteria: I'm mainly aiming at those films (and TV shows) that feature some unknown or lost world beneath the surface of the Earth. Tunnelling and travelling to the Earth's centre, might only count if they encounter something strange down there but may count if they
See also: Subterranean horror.
Further reading: The ever-reliable TV Tropes has sections on Hollow World.
Inclusion criteria: I'm mainly aiming at those films (and TV shows) that feature some unknown or lost world beneath the surface of the Earth. Tunnelling and travelling to the Earth's centre, might only count if they encounter something strange down there but may count if they
See also: Subterranean horror.
Further reading: The ever-reliable TV Tropes has sections on Hollow World.
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- DirectorOtto BrowerB. Reeves EasonStarsGene AutryFrankie DarroBetsy King RossWhen the ancient continent of Mu sank beneath the ocean, some of its inhabitant survived in caverns beneath the sea. Cowboy singer Gene Autry stumbles upon the civilization, now buried beneath his own Radio Ranch. The Muranians have developed technology and weaponry such as television and ray guns. Their rich supply of radium draws unscrupulous speculators from the surface. The peaceful civilization of the Muranians is corrupted by the greed from above, and it becomes Autry's task to prevent all-out war, ideally without disrupting his regular radio show.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsRonald ColmanJane WyattEdward Everett HortonWhen a revered diplomat's plane is diverted and crashes in the peaks of Tibet, he and the other survivors are guided to an isolated monastery at Shangri-La, where they wrestle with the invitation to stay.Not Hollow Earth per se but Shamballah is often connected to the Hollow Earth.
- DirectorTerry O. MorseStarsBruce KelloggOtto WaldisJim BannonScientists use a gigantic drilling machine for an expedition to the center of the earth.
- DirectorVirgil W. VogelStarsJohn AgarCynthia PatrickHugh BeaumontA party of archaeologists discovers the remnants of a mutant five-millennia-old Sumerian civilization living beneath a glacier atop a mountain in Mesopotamia.
- DirectorBruno VeSotaStarsEd NelsonAlan Jay FactorCornelius KeefeThe inhabitants of a small Illinois town begin disappearing after a strange cone is found sticking out of the ground nearby.
- DirectorHenry LevinStarsJames MasonPat BooneArlene DahlAn Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.The classic adaptation against which all others are measured (and fail, so far).
- DirectorAntonio LeonviolaStarsMark ForestMoira OrfeiPaul WynterMaciste arranges for himself and his new friend Bangor to be captured by a mysterious band of white-clad marauders and taken to an underground city. There the two are forced to turn an enormous wheel along with other captives as part of a gold-and-diamonds mining operation. The underground city's queen, Halis Mosab, takes note of the handsome, muscular Maciste and chooses him to be her consort if he can meet such challenges as saving the kidnapped Princess Saliura from a gigantic ape. Maciste kills the ape and carries Saliura back to the aboveground world. The white-clad marauders can't follow them if it means being caught in the sunlight which instantly dissolves them. Maciste then returns to the underground city to save the other captives. Meanwhile, high priest Kahab informs his son, Katar, that their queen is not one of them but, unbeknownst to her, was kidnapped as a small child from the "world above." If Katar can marry her, their children can be "normal" and can live in the world of sunlight. Katar sees Maciste as his enemy and is pleased when the re-captured Maciste is now subjected to a test of strength which will not only kill him but also Bango and another captive named Loth who is in love with the Princess Saliura.
- DirectorNathan JuranStarsEdward JuddMartha HyerLionel JeffriesWhen a spaceship lands on the moon, it is hailed as a new accomplishment, before it becomes clear that a Victorian party completed the journey in 1899, leading investigators to that mission's last survivor.Features a Hollow Moon
- DirectorMontgomery TullyStarsKerwin MathewsViviane VenturaRobert AyresA Chinese general goes berserk and has a system of tunnels dug all the way from China to USA, under the Pacific Ocean. The man who has discovered this is locked up because they think he is insane. US Navy soldiers go underground to repel the invaders.
- StarsTed KnightPat Harrington Jr.Jane WebbBased on the Jules Verne classic novel and the 1959 film by 20th Century Fox. This Saturday morning animated series followed the adventures of Professor Lindenbrook and his party trying to get to the center of the Earth before the evil Count Saknussem They follow a trail left centuries earlier by Arne Saknussem, an ancestor of the Count's.
- DirectorKevin ConnorStarsDoug McClurePeter CushingCaroline MunroA Victorian era scientist and his assistant take a test run in their Iron Mole drilling machine and end up in a strange underground labyrinth ruled by a species of giant telepathic bird and full of prehistoric monsters and cavemen.
- CreatorAkio SuginoStarsAkira KamiyaHidekatsu ShibataKan TokumaruWhen alien invaders from the planet Zela arrive, Earth's only defense is the super robot Gaiking and the Great Space Dragon.
- DirectorRichard SlapczynskiStarsRon HaddrickAlistair DuncanBevan WilsonA scrap of paper found in an ancient book allows Professor Lidenbrock to prove his theory that life exists deep in the interior of the earth.
- DirectorDon SharpStarsRobert PowellTimothy BottomsLisa BlountAn army experiment in submarine communications falls foul of the deadly secret hidden deep within the cave system housing their transmitter.
- CreatorNina WolmarkStarsJeanine ForneyChristian BénardAmandine RajauAn underground civilization named Arkadia launches an expedition for exploring the world of the surface to restore its fading sun.
- DirectorAlbert PyunStarsKathy IrelandWilliam R. MosesRichard HainesA nerdy young woman with a childish voice travels to Africa looking for her missing archaeologist father, and stumbles into a strange subterranean civilization.
- DirectorRusty LemorandeAlbert PyunStarsNicola CowperIlan Mitchell-SmithPaul CarafotesYoung people exploring a cave in Hawaii fall into a hole, and wind up in the lost city of Atlantis.
- 1990–199522mTV-G7.6 (96)TV EpisodeDirectorArt LeonardiStarsCharlie AdlerTress MacNeilleJoe AlaskeyBuster and Babs set out to set out to rescue Hamton and Plucky from a crevice left by an earthquake and discover the source of the recent tremblings of the ground.
- DirectorWilliam DearStarsDavid DundaraFarrah ForkeKim MiyoriA team of explorers sets on a voyage to the Earth's core with their ship "Avenger". They recruit a yeti that serves as their guide. Meanwhile, a malevolent entity is attempting to recover the pieces of an Atlantean artifact.
- DirectorLaura ShepherdStarsClara BlyeDon FrancksJennifer MartiniAn animated retelling of the classic story.
- DirectorJack FletcherStarsWilliam ShatnerLeonard NimoyJohn de LancieAlien Voices production of H.G. Well's The First Men In The Moon Starring Leonard Nimoy and John de Lancie
- StarsTreat WilliamsJeremy LondonTushka BergenRemake of Jules Verne's classic story finds adventurers seeking a mysterious hidden land. They are joined by the wife of another man, who had previously gone on a similar expedition and disappeared.
- 2000–200148m6.9 (51)TV EpisodeDirectorZoltán Szilágyi VargaStarsPierre RichardErico SalamoneCarole BaillienProfessor Otto Lidenbrock and his nephew Axel set out on the animated adventure of a lifetime when they journey to the center of the Earth.
- DirectorTakashi ShimizuStarsShin'ya TsukamotoTomomi MiyashitaKazuhiro NakaharaA fear-obsessed freelance cameraman (Shinya Tsukamoto) investigates an urban legend involving mysterious spirits that haunt the subways of Tokyo.Draws on the ideas of Richard Shaver.
- DirectorAlex KirbyStarsAdrian BouchetPeter CadwellJared Morgan