The Lost Tribe

The Lost Tribe

114 mins | Adventure, Horror, Mystery | Oct. 1, 1983

Anthropologist Max Scarry mysteriously disappears while doing excavation/research of a lost New Zealand tribe on a remote island. His wife and his twin brother Edward are clueless as to what could have happened, a situation complicated by their city's police suspecting that one of the brothers murdered a local prostitute who was found with a strange tribal charm on her body matching one found in Max's abandoned hut. What most certainly isn't helping matters is the strange behavior of Max's daughter as she seems to have visions beyond possibility, warnings of a supernatural threat and her uncle's fate - and she's the film's narrator, to boot. Edward decides to go to the island to find out exactly what happened, but the deeper he goes into the mystery the more perilous and unknowable his world becomes, leading towards a shocking fate that raises more questions than it answers. (cont. http://view-from-the-paperhouse.blogspot.de/2014/10/the-threat-of-ancient-echoes-lost-tribe.html)

The Lost Tribe

114 mins | Adventure, Horror, Mystery | Oct. 1, 1983

The Lost Tribe
Anthropologist Max Scarry mysteriously disappears while doing excavation/research of a lost New Zealand tribe on a remote island. His wife and his twin brother Edward are clueless as to what could have happened, a situation complicated by their city's police suspecting that one of the brothers murdered a local prostitute who was found with a strange tribal charm on her body matching one found in Max's abandoned hut. What most certainly isn't helping matters is the strange behavior of Max's daughter as she seems to have visions beyond possibility, warnings of a supernatural threat and her uncle's fate - and she's the film's narrator, to boot. Edward decides to go to the island to find out exactly what happened, but the deeper he goes into the mystery the more perilous and unknowable his world becomes, leading towards a shocking fate that raises more questions than it answers. (cont. http://view-from-the-paperhouse.blogspot.de/2014/10/the-threat-of-ancient-echoes-lost-tribe.html)
Producers New Zealand Film Commission, Meridian Films
Original title The Lost Tribe
Directors John Laing, John McKay
Writers John Laing

Cast

John Bach

as Edward / Max Scarry

Darien Takle

as Ruth Scarry

Don Selwyn

as Sergeant Swain

Martyn Sanderson

as Bill Thorne

Emma Takle

as Katy

Ian Watkin

as Mears

Adele Chapman

as Eileen Armstrong

Joanne Simpson

as Louise

Barry Lynch

as Policeman

Terry Connolly

as Inspector Ford

Christopher Mills

as Det Sgt James

Alex Aitchison

as Ramsay

Nancy Renwick

as Mrs. Ball

Michael Heath

as Drunk