Sliding under the deadline like Indiana Jones sliding under some slowly closing stone door that resets every time the camera cuts away from it…
At 77 minutes, this movie rarely takes time out from cheap exploitation, and while the “creepin’ around looking for a monster” scenes are more tedious than tense, Forbidden World makes up for it in grand fashion by delivering bucket loads of exploding faces, vomiting aliens, naked women, and the most ludicrous/offensive way to kill a monster that I think has ever been dreamed up. Forbidden World delivers pretty much everything I could hope for from a Roger Corman film. He knew what we kids wanted, and in the 1980s, what we kids wanted was stuff we kids probably shouldn’t be seeing. And bless him, Corman gave us that in spades with this movie.
#1 by Ed on December 1, 2010 - 12:46 am
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This is the film I kicked off my Roger Corman’s Cult Classics DVD binge with and I love every single exploitation soaked minute of it. That shower scene is quite a moment.
I’d recommend one to steer clear of the remake Dead Space though. It’s…nowhere nearly as good as the original. It skews more towards the third version of Corman you mentioned.
#2 by Ed on December 1, 2010 - 12:49 am
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That shiuyld be “nowhere near”. It’s late.
#3 by The Mud Puppy on December 1, 2010 - 11:30 am
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Personally, I kind of prefer Mutant, on account of both the sense of humor and the use of “The Beautiful Blue Danube” in the scene where they try to communicate with the monster instead of that synth rock stuff that is so identical to the film’s score that I almost didn’t grok to the fact that it was diagetic. (yes, I went to film school)
On the other hand, creepy or not, the child-voice robot is a lot easier to understand when it’s talking than the original robot voice, and the extra footage in the control room makes Dawn Dunlap’s character look even more useless.
So both versions have their strengths, and bless Shout Factory for including both on their DVD.
#4 by The Beerman on December 1, 2010 - 1:41 pm
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Just the squicky notion of having my genetic structure being rearranged to make me more digestible always gave this film more staying power — for me, anyways.
#5 by El Santo on December 2, 2010 - 10:56 am
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Hands down my favorite Alien ripoff. Nothing else is even seriously in the running.
#6 by The Mud Puppy on December 2, 2010 - 11:21 am
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I was gonna make a joke along the lines of, “What, no love for Dead Space?” Except, of course, I just re-watched Dead Space recently and it is even worse than I had remembered. So bad that I can’t even <i.joke about it not being terrible in good conscience.
Why the hell would you remake Forbidden World, but remove just about everything that made it fun?
#7 by Blake on December 2, 2010 - 1:31 pm
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What? No love for CREEPAZOIDS?
#8 by DamonD on December 3, 2010 - 4:21 am
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What? No love for Starship / The Creature Wasn’t Nice?
# IIIIII wanna eat! Your faaaaace! #
#9 by The Mud Puppy on December 3, 2010 - 10:19 am
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Well, technically [B]Starship[/B] aka [B]Naked Space[/B] aka [B]The Creature Wasn’t Nice[/B] was a parody, not a rip-off. And personally, aside from a few choice moments like the song you mention, I found it to be dreadful.
#10 by El Santo on December 2, 2010 - 3:16 pm
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“Why the hell would you remake Forbidden World, but remove just about everything that made it fun?”
For the same reason you’d remake Stripped to Kill at all: because you work for Concorde-New Horizons, and your boss spent his last give-a-crap sometime around 1989.
#11 by The Mud Puppy on December 3, 2010 - 10:21 am
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There I go messing up the coding tags again. Shoulda read:
#12 by KeithA on December 3, 2010 - 11:17 am
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There’s probably reason that the song is the one and only thing I can remember from Starship. Heck, I didn’t even remember the title. I thought it was called Spaceship.
#13 by The Mud Puppy on December 3, 2010 - 11:19 am
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It might be Spceship. It has a bizarre amount of alternate titles. I’m pretty sure I saw it as Naked Space.
#14 by El Santo on December 3, 2010 - 3:24 pm
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It was indeed Spaceship, which was an attempt by the reissue distributors to exploit the Leslie Nielsen connection by passing it off as a sequel to Airplane!.