Saw Core Drill
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I saw a movie when I was a kid and I can't remember much about it. The main gist was that a group of people was going to drill to the center of the earth but are lost after the begin. then some years later (I think 10 or so) a friend of one of the people on the first team goes with another team to try the same mission again. When they reach the core it not full of magma but is a strange alienesk world. lead by a creepy looking overlord type guy who turned out to be the guy from the first team. I think it was filmed in the 80's or so. Please tell me I'm not crazy, and that this movie does exist.
This is later than your estimate, but does resemble your description. I apologize for the quantity of information, but it might help you decide whether or not this is your movie. If it isn't, I'll delete the review but leave the title as my suggestion.
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1993 TV miniseries)
IMDb review:
On February 28, 1993, NBC premiered a 2-hour TV movie entitled JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, which had even less relation to the novel than two recent Cannon films. The modern plot related how an enthusiastic university professor, Harlech (F. Murray Abraham), dreams of discovering enormous caverns beneath the surface by traveling into the shaft of an active volcano. However, after entering the nuclear-powered craft he has invented for such travel, it apparently explodes upon the first attempt to descend. His nephew carries on with the idea, forging an uncomfortable alliance with a wealthy industrialist to build a new, improved craft, which succeeds in arriving underground and conveying its passengers through mysterious domains. This is, in fact, more of a remake of UNKNOWN WORLD, building on Edgar Rice Burroughs' mole concept to solve the most problematic notion of the Verne story for modern audiences~how explorers could walk to the Earth's center~by offering an outer space-style craft to expedite their journey, while still pausing outside the ship for the encounters with early humans and primitive animals that Verne had included.
Actually, the film consists of two pilot episodes of a projected series. As a result, the film concludes in an open-ended fashion, as the craft goes forward to continue finding new realms. ... Horrific crawling manta-ray style monsters and a missing-link race of early man called troglodytes provide further danger. There is a HAL-style onboard computer that has not only a personality but also a holographic face. An evil Darth Vader-type creature, kept alive through artificial means, tries to thwart the explorers. A brief shot as he falls into the lava shows him wearing the same ring as the nephew gave Harlech before his apparent death, indicating that Harlech was transformed. Both this creature and the expedition's scientist, played by John Neville, are trying to complete a lost computer chip puzzle that forms a book of knowledge from the time of Atlantis. A lovable Tibetan abominable snowman joins the group, which also includes other stereotypical representatives meant to form a microcosm of humanity: a female spelunker, two women scientists, an explosives expert, and an African-American.
Here are two film clips:
NOTE: In spite of its title, it owes more to Edgar Rice Burroughs. I at first considered "At the Earth's Core", a Seventies film, except the rules of the underworld are "evil oversized prehistoric birds with extra-sensory abilities".
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