just watch it!

Dreadfully Boring

Charming and brutal

Absolutely brilliant

"Forbidden World" is a movie made for all the people who watched "Alien" and thought, 'man, what this movie could really do with is more sex and less scares'. There had to be at least a handful of people out there who thought that, right? "Forbidden World" is like a love letter to those people... I guess.It begins with some ridiculous "Star Wars"-esque space ship battle sequences, which turn out to be so out of place that it is not a surprise to read that Corman recycled this footage from some other movie. Then there is some classical music, reminding us of a certain Stanley Kubrick science fiction opus. But the movie soon settles down into "Alien" territory.People forget that one of the things that made "Alien" unique was that despite its science fiction setting it didn't have the hammy dialogue and acting that sci-fi is known for. "Forbidden World" copies that, with naturalistic acting and characters who, for the most part, feel like real people......Until the sex starts. The "hero" of "Forbidden World" is not what you'd call a typical science fiction protagonist, either. He's not a big strapping strong guy and he's not especially handsome. This makes it particularly weird when he gets it on with the movies only two females. The first, a doctor, positively throws herself at him. The second one, a younger girl, has a weird dalliance with the man in which our "hero" becomes positively creepy and almost antagonistic. He walks in on the girl naked in a steam bath. She covers herself and shrieks for him to get out and leave her alone. The camera cuts to his leering visage. She relents and he has sex with her. It all seems oddly coercive.The "monster" in this movie spends most of the run time just looking like a pile of mud. I guess you have to hand it to the filmmakers that they didn't rip off "Alien" even down to the purpose of its title: the monster in this film is not an alien, it's a genetically engineered lifeform. It only really becomes a fully fledged monster at the end of the movie, and you never really get a good look at it, which is funny. You got to see the monster in "Deadly Spawn" pretty well, and that probably had a much lower budget than this.I give "Forbidden World" a 7 because it is entertaining enough. For a low budget flick I found its sets surprisingly convincing, and its two starlets are beautiful, though the hero is weirdly skeevy.

In the distant future, a federation marshal arrives at a research lab on a remote planet where a genetic experiment has gotten lose and begins feeding on the dwindling scientific group.So, what do you get when you have an "Alien" ripoff written by Jim Wynorski, produced by Roger Corman, and with effects from John Carl Buechler? If you expected excessive boobs from Wynorski, you would be right. And if you expected a low budget from Corman, you would be right. A great monster from Buechler? Sure thing! Seriously, this is not a bad movie. Is an A-level science fiction film? Maybe not. It should not be thought on on the same level as "Alien". But that is not the point, if you know what you are getting yourself into when you sit down for a Corman flick. It is is gonna be fun, cheesy and entertaining -- just like movies should be.

The "Forbidden World" of the title is really just a remote research outpost, where scientists are conducting experiments in creating a new life form from re-engineered DNA(or some such thing!) Of course, things go disastrously wrong, and a space marshal is called in to clean up the mess, and destroy the "mutant" monster.Incredibly mundane and unappealing film has practically nothing to recommend it, other than two beautiful leading ladies(Dawn Dunlap & June Chadwick.) Pity they are stuck in the middle of this gross, ugly and derivative film. Method used to kill the monster may be unique, but not in a good way! Total junk.

Once again, Roger Corman and his "New World Pictures" sought to cash in on the craze of good Science Fiction (Star Trek, Star Wars and Alien) by producing a bad ripoff of someone else's better idea. Which is what you do if you can't come up with a good idea of your own.The basic plot line is that there is a "food shortage", and a group of ethically challenged scientists decide to create a human-alien hybrid which proceeds to get out and try to kill them all. A trouble shooter and his robot are sent in, apparently his only real skill is being able to spread his seed.Okay, sign that Roger and the people working for him are hacks. The whole climax of the plot is that the grubby looking scientist is dying of cancer. He makes sure we know this by coughing and acting sick at every opportunity. He also doesn't seem to want to take off his blood-spattered clothing and lab coat, even at dinner.The other characters include the two bimbos who get naked repeatedly, the expendable black guy (TM), the evil corporate scientist who hides what is really going on. Cliché Characters are us....But the monster, a poor cousin to the one in alien, is what ruins this movie. It never seems terribly threatening, and the characters practically have to kill themselves... which several of them do.