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REVFF26: Mockbuster + The Land that Time Forgot

Synopsis

Double Feature!

Mockbuster

Once-promising Australian filmmaker Anthony Frith lands a final shot at glory with Hollywood’s kings of B-movie schlock, the Asylum, the studio behind Sharknado.

Tasked with directing a lost-world dinosaur film in suburban Adelaide on a six-day shoot and a shoestring budget, he also turns the camera on himself, filming a behind-the-scenes documentary as the chaos unfolds. Between demanding LA execs, a bewildered cast, and his own creeping self-doubt, both productions push their first-time director to the brink.

Mockbuster is a hilarious and unexpectedly tender documentary about chasing the dream through the absurd hustle of genre filmmaking, but finding a different kind of success behind the scenes.

Feature
Dir. Anthony Frith
Australia
2025
90mins

The Land That Time Forgot

Dinosaurs, deserters, and a land that clearly missed the memo on linear time—this 2025 spin on The Land That Time Forgot gleefully throws logic overboard and charges straight into chaos. Inspired (very loosely) by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the film strands a thoroughly mismatched bunch of humans on an island where evolution runs backwards, sideways, and occasionally trips over itself.

One minute it’s survival mode, the next it’s dodging prehistoric creatures that look like they’ve wandered in from entirely different films. Alliances form, collapse, and reform again—mostly because getting eaten is a strong team-building exercise. The landscape shifts, the rules don’t stick, and nobody’s entirely sure if they’re progressing or just going in circles.

It’s knowingly ridiculous, leaning into its own absurdity with a wink and a nudge—less concerned with coherence than with the sheer joy of watching people try (and fail) to make sense of a world that refuses to behave. Expect adventure, confusion, and at least a few moments where the best strategy is simply to run.

A lost world romp that swaps solemnity for mischief, The Land That Time Forgot is a reminder that sometimes the smartest response to the unknown is to laugh and keep moving.