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The Lost Tribe

1983-10-01 · 114 min · ★ 4.0

Adventure · Horror · Mystery

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)

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Directors
John Laing
Production companies
New Zealand Film Commission, Meridian Films
Countries
New Zealand
Status
Released

Top Cast

John BachJohn BachEdward / Max Scarry
Darien TakleDarien TakleRuth Scarry
Don SelwynSergeant Swain
Martyn SandersonMartyn SandersonBill Thorne
Emma TakleKaty
Ian WatkinIan WatkinMears
Adele ChapmanAdele ChapmanEileen Armstrong
Joanne SimpsonLouise
Barry LynchBarry LynchPoliceman
Terry ConnollyInspector Ford
Christopher MillsDet Sgt James
Alex AitchisonRamsay
Nancy RenwickMrs. Ball
Michael HeathDrunk

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