Latitude Zero
1969·Science Fiction·1h 45m
7.1
★
A massive underwater volcano erupts and puts a group of investigative scientists in danger. They are rescued by an atomic super submarine named The Alpha under the command of Captain McKenzie. The group is quickly taken to a vast underwater city known as Latitude Zero, a fantastic, Atlantean type utopia, a world beneath the ocean with its own sun. It is soon discovered that Captain McKenzie is at war with the evil Dr. Malic, a cruel scientist who wishes to rule mankind all the while conducting genetic experiments on humans and animals. Malic sends his agents to kidnap Dr. Okada, a human scientist who has created a serum that can immunize exposure to radiation.
Directed by Ishirō Honda
submarine
mad scientist
rivalry
underwater
underwater city
human becoming an animal
underwater volcano eruption
tokusatsu
coproduction
Trailer
IMDB
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Cast
Joseph Cotten
Capt. Craig McKenzie / Cmdr. Glenn McKenzie
Cesar Romero
Dr. Malic / Lt. Hastings
Akira Takarada
Dr. Ken Tashiro
Masumi Okada
Dr. Jules Masson
Richard Jaeckel
Perry Lawton
Patricia Medina
Lucretia
Mari Nakayama
Tsuruko Okada
Akihiko Hirata
Dr. Sugata
Tetsu Nakamura
Dr. Okada
Linda Haynes
Dr. Anne Barton
Susumu Kurobe
Chin
Haruo Nakajima
Griffon / Giant Rat / Bat Man
Crew
Ishirō Honda
Director
Shinichi Sekizawa
Screenplay
Akira Ifukube
Original Music Composer
Tomoyuki Tanaka
Executive Producer
Seiji Tani
First Assistant Director
Koji Hashimoto
Assistant Director
Eiji Tsuburaya
Special Effects
Teruyoshi Nakano
Special Effects
Teruyoshi Nakano
Special Effects Assistant
Yasuyuki Inoue
Visual Effects Art Director
Motoyoshi Tomioka
Special Effects
Motoyoshi Tomioka
VFX Director of Photography
Popular Reviews
7 reviews
jamblo
6.0★ · 10/28/23
I mean...what can you even say about a movie that begins with repurposed documentary footage of a bathysphere, moves into a chase with model submarines, and transitions to a utopia at the center of the earth, all before Caesar Romero starts inserting a human brain into lion and then grafting vulture wings onto its back?
People wear transparent vinyl jackets and capes, gold lame boiler suits, and fluorescent neckerchiefs. There are lasers being fired from the fingertips of gloves, diamonds being used as potting soil, bat people, and a wild collection of heavily accented English dialogue. The plot, after about an hour, solidifies into something about a kidnapping scheme, Joseph Cotton plays a 200-year-old man, Patricia Medina's eyebrows out-act just about everyone, and there's a twist ending of the kind I usually hate but here is just so baffling I can't really fault it.
Incroyable.
People wear transparent vinyl jackets and capes, gold lame boiler suits, and fluorescent neckerchiefs. There are lasers being fired from the fingertips of gloves, diamonds being used as potting soil, bat people, and a wild collection of heavily accented English dialogue. The plot, after about an hour, solidifies into something about a kidnapping scheme, Joseph Cotton plays a 200-year-old man, Patricia Medina's eyebrows out-act just about everyone, and there's a twist ending of the kind I usually hate but here is just so baffling I can't really fault it.
Incroyable.
I mean...what can you even say about a movie that begins with repurposed documentary footage of a bathysphere, moves into a chase with model submarines, and transitions to a utopia at the center of the earth, all before Caesar Romero starts inserting a human brain into lion and then grafting vulture wings onto its back?
People wear transparent vinyl jackets and capes, gold lame boiler suits, and fluorescent neckerchiefs. There are lasers being fired from the fingertips of gloves, diamonds being used as potting soil, bat people, and a wild collection of heavily accented English dialogue. The plot, after about an hour, solidifies into something about a kidnapping scheme, Joseph Cotton plays a 200-year-old man, Patricia Medina's eyebrows out-act just about everyone, and there's a twist ending of the kind I usually hate but here is just so baffling I can't really fault it.
Incroyable.
People wear transparent vinyl jackets and capes, gold lame boiler suits, and fluorescent neckerchiefs. There are lasers being fired from the fingertips of gloves, diamonds being used as potting soil, bat people, and a wild collection of heavily accented English dialogue. The plot, after about an hour, solidifies into something about a kidnapping scheme, Joseph Cotton plays a 200-year-old man, Patricia Medina's eyebrows out-act just about everyone, and there's a twist ending of the kind I usually hate but here is just so baffling I can't really fault it.
Incroyable.
MechaniChris
6.0★ · 02/10/21
What if a James Bond film were set in Wakanda, and also there’s monsters? Well you got the weirdly fun Ishiro Honda film Latitude Zero baby!
The ties to Godzilla are more thin than any other movie on this list. Technically, one of its alternate titles is listed as Atragon II, which would be a very clean connection if this movie had anything to do with Atragon besides having a futuristic submarine. There’s no acknowledgement to the other film and I’m not even sure if Atragon II was ever a part of any official title. There’s very little information about it online.
However, there is one far more interesting connection in the preproduction of this movie. This was originally going to be BATMAN VS GODZILLA. Yeah. This was made during the height of 60’s Batman and there was a planned crossover that would be a Japanese and American collaboration. Unfortunately, it never came to fruition, however there are certain elements that carried over into this film, such as Cesar Romero as the main villain and a race of mutant “Bat Men”.
It’s such a shame that this collaboration (which also would’ve included Boris Karloff and Bruce Lee) never materialized, but at least now I don’t have to include every DC film on my Godzilla list.
The ties to Godzilla are more thin than any other movie on this list. Technically, one of its alternate titles is listed as Atragon II, which would be a very clean connection if this movie had anything to do with Atragon besides having a futuristic submarine. There’s no acknowledgement to the other film and I’m not even sure if Atragon II was ever a part of any official title. There’s very little information about it online.
However, there is one far more interesting connection in the preproduction of this movie. This was originally going to be BATMAN VS GODZILLA. Yeah. This was made during the height of 60’s Batman and there was a planned crossover that would be a Japanese and American collaboration. Unfortunately, it never came to fruition, however there are certain elements that carried over into this film, such as Cesar Romero as the main villain and a race of mutant “Bat Men”.
It’s such a shame that this collaboration (which also would’ve included Boris Karloff and Bruce Lee) never materialized, but at least now I don’t have to include every DC film on my Godzilla list.
What if a James Bond film were set in Wakanda, and also there’s monsters? Well you got the weirdly fun Ishiro Honda film Latitude Zero baby!
The ties to Godzilla are more thin than any other movie on this list. Technically, one of its alternate titles is listed as Atragon II, which would be a very clean connection if this movie had anything to do with Atragon besides having a futuristic submarine. There’s no acknowledgement to the other film and I’m not even sure if Atragon II was ever a part of any official title. There’s very little information about it online.
However, there is one far more interesting connection in the preproduction of this movie. This was originally going to be BATMAN VS GODZILLA. Yeah. This was made during the height of 60’s Batman and there was a planned crossover that would be a Japanese and American collaboration. Unfortunately, it never came to fruition, however there are certain elements that carried over into this film, such as Cesar Romero as the main villain and a race of mutant “Bat Men”.
It’s such a shame that this collaboration (which also would’ve included Boris Karloff and Bruce Lee) never materialized, but at least now I don’t have to include every DC film on my Godzilla list.
The ties to Godzilla are more thin than any other movie on this list. Technically, one of its alternate titles is listed as Atragon II, which would be a very clean connection if this movie had anything to do with Atragon besides having a futuristic submarine. There’s no acknowledgement to the other film and I’m not even sure if Atragon II was ever a part of any official title. There’s very little information about it online.
However, there is one far more interesting connection in the preproduction of this movie. This was originally going to be BATMAN VS GODZILLA. Yeah. This was made during the height of 60’s Batman and there was a planned crossover that would be a Japanese and American collaboration. Unfortunately, it never came to fruition, however there are certain elements that carried over into this film, such as Cesar Romero as the main villain and a race of mutant “Bat Men”.
It’s such a shame that this collaboration (which also would’ve included Boris Karloff and Bruce Lee) never materialized, but at least now I don’t have to include every DC film on my Godzilla list.
c
9.0★ · 02/10/25
Sergio
4.0★ · 11/19/24
J
7.0★ · 08/26/23