Journey to the Center of the Earth (released in the UK as Journey to Middle Earth) is a 2008 American science fiction action adventure film created by The Asylum and directed by David Jones and Scott Wheeler.

[1] The film is a loose adaptation of the original 1864 novel Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne, but bears a close similarity to At the Earth's Core, a similar 1914 novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

It is also the second film by The Asylum to be based on a Jules Verne novel, the first being 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

A mockbuster, it was released to capitalize on the higher-budgeted film of the same title starring Brendan Fraser.

[2] The film follows two intertwined subplots: a drilling operation that is taking place in South America, and a rescue mission to save a research team that has been teleported 600 km beneath the Earth's crust.