It’s even more annoying considering that the fight at the movie’s beginning does nothing for the plot or to establish the Mike Colby character, as neither needed it. I was disappointed that footage from Battle Beyond the Stars was used again in a Roger Corman outer space movie – it seems that he couldn’t get enough of the spaceships designed by James Cameron, nor the footage of the space battles from that flick. The monstrosity at the end is out of some people’s nightmares and threatening as hell. You get a lot of variety, and there are few scenes where they look fake. It’s bananas.Īs for the creatures, they’re visually terrific. There’s even an exposition scene between the two female characters, who are fully nude, washing each other. You also get a helpful helping of nudity – both female crew members are stunning and have no problem shedding their clothes at every opportunity. By the movie’s end, the cast seems to just be walking through constant viscera and weird crap that you assume used to be humans. It’s a goo-fest, starting almost from the get-go, and just when you think it can’t get ickier, more stuff happens. Fox Harris is great as the mad scientist who figures out how to kill the monster, weaponizing his own cancer (!!!!!) to kill it. June Chadwick is the opposite of her role of Lydia on the television series, V, playing a compassionate, albeit completely clueless, laboratory member. He has an easy charm and seems to realize what kind of movie he’s in and just has fun with it. I found Jesse Vint to be a hoot as the main character, who seems to fancy himself as James Bond-esque – he’s not done sleeping with one woman until he turns to another. Yes, they are caricatures and lack uniqueness, but they’re a lot of fun. What Forbidden World is, though, is a lot of fun. You have the character who wants to study it, the character who will kill it on sight, the rest of the cast is just there, etc. The story is nothing new – there’s a murderous creature because…because, and the hapless cast must figure out how to kill it. Review: Forbidden World (or Mutant, which is one of the titles it was released under) will bring you nothing new if you are familiar with the sci-fi horror genre. Plot: A military officer (Jesse Vint) travels to a distant world to investigate a mutant who goes amok in a research lab. All his subsequent work has been in documentaries.While it’s little more than an Alien rip-off, there are creatures galore and a ton of nudity and gore that will please fans of the 80s horror genre. The film has gained a certain (undeserved) recognition on the basis of its climax where the scientist kills the alien by reaching in, pulling his cancer-ridden liver out and feeding it to the creature.Īllan Holzman only made one other genre film as director with the killer cyborg film Programmed to Kill (1987). Many of the effects shots have been cannibalised from the previous New Worlds science-fiction film Battle Beyond the Stars (1980). Jesse Vint makes a resoundingly wet hero and the cheap electronic score is a major irritant. The poor editing leaves the film sorely lacking anything approaching the masterful handling of Ridley Scott in Alien. The tiresome point-of-view shots from the creature look only like someone has smeared the camera with Vaseline. Logic is confusing – why is a trouble-shooter called in before the creature has hatched? And why at all if people want its existence hushed up? The H.R. Meaningless babble is occasionally thrown in to justify happenings. The action alternates from attack scenes to sexual encounters and back again with indifferent regard. In all respects, Forbidden World is cheap and dreary. The influence of Alien casts a giant shadow over the film in all regards, from the look of the creature, to its biology and means of attack. It reads as being never anything more than another cheap clone of Alien (1979) churned out by Roger Corman’s New Worlds production company. Some claim was made to Forbidden World being a genre send-up but there is little evidence to it in watching the film.
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