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Adrian Ellis is a Canadian film and television composer. He is most noted for his work on the 2022 film Cult Hero, for which he received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Original Score at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023,[1] and the 2024 film The Legacy of Cloudy Falls, for which he received a nomination in the same category at the 14th Canadian Screen Awards in 2026. His other credits have included the films The Scarehouse, The Man in the Shadows, The Hoard, The Hyperborean and Mother Father Sister Brother Frank, and the web series Clutch and Out with Dad. He has received several Indie Series Award nominations for his work on Clutch and Out with Dad, and was a Canadian Screen Music Award nominee for Best Original Score for a Short Film in 2022 for Old Mother Tongue.[2] He has also served as vice-president of the Screen Composers Guild of Canada.[3]
On a yacht south of the Equator waters, we meet a ruthless tycoon named Thornton Armitage and his family whose daughter's wed to the arrogant Ned Hallet along the trip is a paleontologist Steve who's teaching Thornton's son Billy about dinosaurs. During the voyage, Steve becomes attracted to Thornton's daughter Elaine and they both start to fall in love but all are disrupted by a large typhoon that threatens the yacht and begins to sink evacuating to a nearby submarine the group then finds themselves in a prehistoric land filled with dinosaurs, prehistoric beasts, and exploding volcanoes. Steve decides since he is the dinosaur expert to lead the group through survival but Hallet who is a trigger-happy hunter is jealous of Steve upon leaving the group he hunts down a baby Triceratops and meets his demise at the hand of an angry mother. After encountering many reptilian creatures of this lost world the group must make contact with the outside world before the prehistoric wonder around them is lost to the deadly forces of nature.
