It's a taboo sign, a warning.
Whoa. Whoa ... you can't go in there.
Don't be absurd. We've spent days trying to find a sulfur spring.
Maybe we can find another one.
We don't have time without sulfur we have no gunpowder.
We'll just have to risk it.
I'm trying to keep us alive.
As am I.
Stay close and keep your eyes open.
You heard the lady.
Excellent, ripe with deposits.
That sounded almost human.
Get this thing off me.
This is a burial ground. We're getting out of here now.
It's ingenious.
The sulfur stench masks the smell of decaying corpses and keeps the scavengers at bay
Yeah, we'll all be corpses if we don't get out of here.
At the dawn of the century
A band of adventures set out to prove the impossible
The existence of a prehistoric world
The Visionary
The Heiress
The Hunter
The Scientist
and the Reporter
All chasing the story of a lifetime
Stranded in a savage land
Befriended by an untamed beauty
Together they fight to survive
In this amazing world of lost civilizations
and terrifying creatures
Always searching for a way home
A way out of...
the Lost World
For God sake Roxton the man is dead.
We don't know that.
I hardly think they were planning to throw him a party.
I should have stopped him.
You tried.
Stubborn fool to the last.
When I signed on to this expedition...
I told Challenger I'd follow him to hell and back.
And I intend to do just that.
John he may well be gone.
Then I'll bring back his body and bury him.
Well, we best get going then we've got a lot of ground to cover before dark.
He better be dead or I'll kill him myself.
You okay?
I'm all right I just need a moment to catch my breath.
We're there.
I hope that's not Challenger.
Doesn't smell human.
Where is everybody?
Maybe they're not expecting a rescue party.
Maybe it's a trap.
Only one way to find out.
You see my dear, I told you they would come for me.
Lord John Roxton
may I have the pleasure of introducing Lady Cassandra Yorkton.
I assume you'll be staying for dinner.
You certainly throw an interesting dinner party Lady Yorkton.
Well, ten seasons in London Society taught me a trick or two.
Your footmen would certainly make a splash.
Oh no more, thank you very much.
It's all been simply delicious.
So tell us Cassandra how does the infamous Lady Yorkton end up...
Building a menu among lizards and grubs?
Close enough.
I made the mistake of getting married.
Lord Alfred Lapprand.
The explorer?
Twelve years ago we mounted an expedition to the Amazon.
It was grueling deadly, we lost our guides.
we would never have survived if it weren't for the Manuins.
Where's your husband now?
He's dead.
Come, a toast.
To old friends and new ones.
[All]- To old and new.
This has been a delightful evening
and I am reluctant to be the one to end it, but...
it is late and we must be leaving at first light.
What the hell is this?
I'm afraid there's a problem a rather serious one.
The burial ground.
Well you did break a sacred taboo.
You don't mean this.
Oh but I do,
the punishment is death.
But surely as their queen you have some influence...
Lady Yorkton please!
It's out of my hands...unless.
Here, this is where Alfred was wounded.
He crawled into this cave and died.
So you're saying the Manuins will trade Challenger's life for Lapprand's bones?
He was their King.
To finally be given a ritual burial, yes.
It would be considered a sacred offering.
But if you knew where he died, then?
Why hasnât anyone else gone on this little excursion?
They canât ...the cave is taboo.
No Manuin would risk offending the spirits even if it meant recovering their King.
All right.
Challenger stays here of course.
Like hell I will.
As a gesture of good faith;
youâll be my honored guest.
You have until nightfall tomorrow...
after that, Queen or not, thereâs nothing I can do.
Face it if it werenât for Challenger arrogance we wouldnât be rustling through these prehistoric brambles.
Tell us how you really feel.
We couldnât abandon him.
Why not?
Shhhhhh ...
hear that?
I donât hear anything.
Exactly, no birds, no animals...
nothing at all.
So?
So what scared them off?
Raptors.
What the hell could do this to a T-Rex?
Shoot!
Good God. what a horrible gash.
Iâll have to make a tourniquet and stop the blood.
Here take your shirt off. Let me help you.
No no no, leave the boot on. It will help constrict his circulation.
But his wound?
Iâm going to tie the tourniquet around his thigh.
Youâre the doctor.
Here - this will sting but it will help stop the bleeding.
I donât think I can walk.
Weâll carry you.
Carry him?
Raptors hunt in packs of three.
Donât even think of leaving him behind.
Weâre never gonna get him back to the treehouse.
No time anyway not if weâre gonna save Challenger by sundown.
What about the burial ground sulfur springs.
That would mask the smell of the blood.
Thatâs what got us into this.
Itâs that or be hunted by his two friends.
You go to the cave.
Veronica Iâll be okay.
Not alone you wonât, come on.
Next time use this.
Cassandra.
Miss me?
Why didnât you tell me about this?
You havenât touched your food.
You hardly can expect a condemned man to show much of an appetite.
Hmm well thatâs funny.
Iâve always found a little danger usually increases a manâs...
...appetite.
So...
twelve years youâve been here...
you still havenât found a way off the plateau.
Why would I want a way off?
Donât you want to go home?
I am home.
In London I lived off the richest man I could find.
I was a whore.
- Cassandra. - Why should we pretend otherwise?
It was only a matter of time before my looks and influence waned.
But here I am Queen...
not courtesan.
I choose lovers not to please them...
but because they please me.
Cassandra Iâm a married man.
How delightfully Victorian.
- I canât. - Of course you can.
Look at where we are...
there are no rules here.
This is a new world feel it...
touch it.
Thereâs only you and me in this moment.
Donât let it slip away.
We better find this place soon. There wonât be enough light to get back.
According to the map we should be nearly there.
As long as we donât meet any more raptors.
Or ape-men, cannibals, T-Rexes.
Always the optimist Marguerite.
This could be it.
I donât think so.
How can you tell? the maps not to scale.
Because itâs not the same taboo sign.
Letâs check it out.
Stay sharp everybody.
Summerlee!
No!
Any ideas?
Yeah cover me.
On your feet. Now!
Summerlee, pull yourself together man.
Give him a minute.
We donât have a minute to give.
Weâre down Veronica and Malone we canât afford to lose him to.
Now are you with us?
Iâm alright, Iâm fine.
Good, we have to keep going.
- I know. - Then letâs go.
Come on.
John, Iâm sorry.
Why donât you stay here.
Oh nonsense Iâll be just fine.
Summerlee weâll need someone to watch our backs.
Very well if youâre absolutely certain.
Yeah if weâre not out in twenty minutes ...
...call Scotland Yard.
You sure you donât want to stay outside with Summerlee?
And let you have all the fun.
Iâll take the left.
Donât go far, one hundred yards we meet back here, got it?
Got it.
Oh Marguerite...
... be careful.
Hello, brother.
William?
Youâve come to kill me again?
William? No!
Come now John...
is that any way to greet your dear departed brother?
Oh, of course...
terrible thing a gun shot wound.
Imagine a freight train slamming into your chest...
and plowing through your rib cage like it was a pile of twigs.
No, this isnât possible.
Well, luckily I didnât suffer...
my heart exploded almost immediately.
Thatâs better, well weâve got a lot of catching up to do Johnny.
How have you been since you murdered me?
This canât be. You canât be real.
Is that real enough for you?
Oh snuck that one in didnât I?
Time was youâd have seen it coming.
What the hellâs going on?
This is just like the good old days aye?
We were a right couple of yobbos fighting and scrapping and kicking.
William, Iâm sorry.
But look at you now, youâre getting soft, Johnny.
Damn you what do you want from me?
Your fear.
Oh wonderful.
Roxton is that you?
Youâre beautiful.
Where am I?
Do you remember this?
No, I donât suppose you could...
Vienna, falling leaves, chestnuts, hot chocolate.
Your father would have bought you a whole orchestra.
This is impossible. Iâm going insane.
You always were a stubborn baby.
All right, I want some answers.
Letâs start with who you are.
you already know who I am.
Take it easy youâre hurt.
Iâm fine.
Veronica back there.
It could have happened to anyone.
That was an angry pig.
That was a wild boar.
Oh, sit down.
I aimed high if it would have been a raptor I would have killed it.
Youâre bleeding.
Veronica I want you to go...
catch up with the others.
Itâs stupid both of us risking our lives.
If youâd just sit still, stay alive a lot longer.
Iâve got a few rounds left Iâll be fine.
Weâll be fine.
You donât have to do this.
I want to do this.
Itâs not true youâre not my mother.
You have one just like it.
No pictures...
just the inscription.
âFor our daughter Marguerite forever in our thoughts.â
You remember.
Itâs like Iâve dreamt this a thousand times.
Oh my God.
Not even he can help you now.
You are an amazing woman.
I am a woman free of society,
unhindered by counterfeit morality.
Only as long as we live in this world.
So stay.
My friends will be back by nightfall.
I thought you were beginning to like it here.
Oh my lovely lady, indeed I do,
but I have another destiny.
Your friends arenât coming back.
What?
Many people have entered the cave a fear ...
no oneâs ever come out.
Where the dickens are they?
Marguerite!
Roxton!
Gentlemen of the jury...
you see this man before you...
John Roxton ...
stole his title ...
now heâs Lord John Roxton to you.
No, it was an accident.
An accident he says.
You were being attacked by an ape...
I was trying to save your life.
You deny you shot me.
I shot the ape ...
the bullet went through it.
An ape and your brother...
two more trophies for the wall.
Stop it!
Who was it who convinced father that I should go on safari?
Yes, convicted by his own silence gentleman.
It was for your own good.
Father thought it was time you faced your fears.
Gentlemen my brother Lord John Roxton...
world famous big game hunter...
notorious ladies man...
toast of international society.
You want to know what I was afraid of?
You, dear brother.
Everything I never could be or would be...
staring me in the face over breakfast every day.
Did either of you stop, and ask me what I wanted?
No.
Face your fears you said.
Well I did...
and you killed me.
Members of the jury, how say you?
All my dolls,
my locket,
my baby hair.
All these years I felt something.
Someone guiding me, protecting me,
it must have been you,
your love.
Love?
No.
What?
I didnât love you.
How could a mother give up a child she loves?
Itâs not natural.
I donât understand you kept all my things.
When we found out we were going to have a baby...
your father and I were so happy; so excited.
But then you were born,
right away I knew there was something wrong with you...
different, evil.
No stop.
Your father didnât see it at first...
but as you grew older even he saw.
Why are you doing this?
All these things everything in this room I kept them...
to remind me never to have another child.
Stop mother please.
I brought sin into this world once ...
I couldnât risk it again.
Ned?
Not much but at least we wonât starve.
Ned?
Ned? Ned?
I found water.
Weâll be lucky if we live long enough to get thirsty.
See your blood trail?
You just invited every predator in the neighborhood over for dinner.
- Raptors - Come on.
Oh baby...
donât cry baby...
itâs gonna be all right...
thatâs why Iâm here.
Come here,
you wouldnât remember this.
What is it?
The blanket you were christened in.
Go on itâs yours.
Why are you doing this?
You know why, baby.
No I donât.
That aching inside...
all that darkness.
Itâs not right.
And those thoughts you have those terrible thoughts.
Oh baby Iâm sorry but this is not your world.
You know you donât belong here.
You know what needs to be done.
Trouble sleeping,
you know one word from me and theyâll kill you.
Cassandra, please let me explain.
No man leaves me ...
not anymore.
- My friends. - Your friends are deadâ¦
on your knees.
What?
You have defied the honor of their queen.
On your knees!
No.
Never!
Then, thatâs more like it.
Good heavens.
Guilty ...
of desertion of leaving his mother to rot
in an empty house while he chased glory on a fools expedition.
What say the jury?
Guilty, yes...
of the murder of your own brother and our fatherâs death.
No!
Three weeks later, heart attack or heartbreak?
What say you good men of the jury?
Guilty.
Enough!
Yes thatâs it,
be a hero, be a man, kill me again.
I loved you William.
Iâm sorry.
I was trying to save you.
Save me.
Remember how I used to be terrified of heights brother?
What are you doing? Get down!
Giving you a chance to make it up to me.
Stop it! No more games.
That was a close one.
Get down off there!
Come on John...
itâs a long way to the ground.
But you could save me.
Die man
William!
Roxton!
Snap out of it!
Here put this over your nose.
The fungus is hallucinogenic.
Come on letâs get you out of here.
Marguerite!
Didnât anyone teach you not to play with guns?
No! No! No!
Shhh itâs okay it isnât real Marguerite look at meâ¦
look at me it isnât real.
Letâs get her out of here.
Yes, but what about the bones.
What about them?
How can we be sure theyâre Lapprands?
A.L. Alfred Lapprand...
take a look for yourself.
Theyâre gaining on us.
Dammit.
Go!
Donât be crazy.
Iâm telling you leave me.
Iâm not leaving you here to be some raptors lunch.
What was that for?
Inspiration, now move your ass.
Go!
Run! run!
Malone!
Eat this.
I think thatâs all of them.
Thanks!
Letâs go home.
Ready?
If you want to sit this one out?
Oh I told you, Iâm fine.
Thereâs nothing you have to prove.
Whatever we went through in there itâs over.
- If you ever want to talk about... - I won't.
Is there anything else?
No.
I guess there isnât.
Youâre a fool Challenger.
How many times does a man get offered a kingdom?
I have no desire to share your kingdom.
Tell me I didnât give you the greatest pleasure youâve ever known.
There was this barmaid once in Brighton or was it Liverpool.
I wonder how long it will take for you to die.
Madame I told you they would do it.
I donât believe it.
The proof milady as promised.
Untie him.
Iâm sorry.
Iâve had a change of heart.
Bitch!
Queen.
Havenât we forgotten something?
Poor Alfred.
Cassandra.
Alfred?
Cassandra.
No youâre dead.
Didnât you think Iâd come back for you, even though you left me to die.
Stay away from me.
But I still love you Cassandra.
Youâre not real.
Kiss me.
No!
Put down the gun Cassandra and let me hold you in my arms.
Never!
Thatâs our queue to leave now.
Come on thereâs nothing you can do.
God save the Queen.
This is supposed to make me better?
Donât worry youâll get used to the smell...
in a couple of days.
You were wonderful.
It was you who saved my life remember.
I know the only reason you kissed me...
was probably because you thought I was...
but I was wondering if it might of...
I mean not that Iâm assuming...
Could we do it again...
sometime...
...soon?
Maybe.
Iâve never seen anything quite like it...
must have been some kind of saprophytic fungus with psychotropic properties.
If you say so, Professor.
You know you havenât said one word about what happened in there.
Thatâs right.
I see.
Thank you!
For saving my life.
Only too happy to have been of service, old boy.
'For our daughter Marguerite...
forever in our thoughts.'