Forbidden World
Tags: grindhouse film, cult, violence, tragedy, suspenseful, sci-fi

Plot synopsis:
In the distant future, a genetic research station is located on the remote desert planet of Xarbia, and a research team has created an experimental lifeform they have designated "Subject 20". This lifeform was built out of the synthetic DNA strain, "Proto B", and was intended to stave off a galaxy-wide food crisis. However, Subject 20 mutates rapidly and uncontrollably and has killed all of the laboratory subject animals before cocooning itself within an examination booth. After Subject 20 hatches from its cocoon, it begins killing the personnel at the station, starting with the lab tech charged with cleansing the subject lab of the dead animal test subjects.Professional troubleshooter Mike Colby (Jesse Vint), accompanied by his robot pilot and assistant SAM-104 (Don Olivera), are called in to investigate the problem. After Colby settles in, his decision to terminate Subject 20 to prevent further deaths is met with research-minded secrecy and resistance. The staff of the station includes the head of research, Dr. Gordon Hauser (Linden Chiles), his assistant Barbara Glaser (June Chadwick), lab assistant Tracy Baxter (Dawn Dunlap), the station head of security Earl Richards (Scott Paulin), mechanic and tech expert Brian Beale (Raymond Oliver), maintenance worker Jimmy Swift (Michael Bowen) and Dr. Cal Timbergen (Fox Harris), the chief of bacteriology.As Subject 20 continues to unleash a storm of gory fatalities that decimates most of the station crew (first starting with Jimmy, and later Earl), the lid on the deception is finally withdrawn: Subject 20's genetic design incorporates human DNA. Furthermore, Cal discovers that its method of killing is most horrifying: this beast injects its prey with the Proto B DNA strain which then proceeds to remove all genetic differences within specific cells. The result is a terrifying death as the victim's living body slowly erodes into gelatinous pile of pure protein which subject 20 then uses for food.After Tracy and Colby have an encounter with the growing and mutating Subject 20 mutant, Colby, Hauser, Beale and SAM-104 venture out into the planet's desert landscape to find the mutant, which leads them back to the facility after the mutant kills Hauser and damages SAM-104.Tracy and Barbara confront the mutant in the control center to try to communicate with it, only for the creature to kill Barbara as well. Beale is next to go when he attempts to fix the communication equipment when the mutant electricutes him on a circut pannel, before it injurs Cal.After its final mutation, the creature evolves into a huge insect-like being with a large mouth full of sharp teeth which chases and terrorizes Tracy as she runs through the facility. Colby, SAM-104 and the injured Cal take refuge in the lab where Cal (who had been coughing throughout the movie) reveals that he has terminal lung cancer and that it can kill the mutant. Cal makes Colby cut into his chest to remove a large baseball-sized tumor along his right lung and above the liver, but Cal dies during the crude surgery. Tracy then runs in being chased by the creature, which then destroys SAM-104 after it shoots a laser gun at it, and then stabs it in one of its eyes with a scalpel. Colby manages to get close enough to feed the mutant Cal's tumor and as a result, the creature's body genetically self-destructs from within as it collapses to the floor, leaving Mike Colby and Tracy as the only survivors.

Review: 'Forbidden World' is a quickly produced Roger Corman low-budget b-grade fable that's all in for exciting and junky exploitation.
Still need to get my hands on the other Corman produced Sci-fi / horror cult fave 'Galaxy of Terror (1981)'.The story centres on intergalactic trouble-shooter Mike Colbey being sent to a barren world were a group of scientists in remote station are researching genetic research without restrictions.
Did I mention that this film has two very sexy(June Chadwick and Dawn Dunlap) female scientists in it, hey, that ups the score right there!
Yet another cheap 'n cheesy early 80's "Alien" rip-off produced by Roger "King of the B's" Corman!
The cool-looking monster on the VHS cover is mankind's own little mistake-creation, spawned on a spaceship where the crew was actually trying to discover new types of food sources.
Following good old Roger Corman traditions, there's some great sleaze and nudity to enjoy and also the dialogs are imbecilic but fun.
It's your basic Alien ripoff, with a bunch of scientists hiding out in a remote space station on Xarba, where a troubleshooter Jesse Vint comes to save the day.
"Forbidden World" is a cult-trash produced by Roger Corman using the success of the 1979 "Alien".
The hot Dawn Dunlap and June Chadwick make the difference and worthwhile watching this gore, gross and erotic low-budget film.
It contains nudity,gore, a cheesy monster and everything that a person who is in favour of b-grade movies requires to be entertained by a movie.It's indeed a rip off of Alien, but it's much better than Alien, Alien is a very boring film in my opinion, but I think that Mutant is just fantastically good!
This movie is less notorious than Corman's previous space film "Galaxy of Terror" (where a female character is raped by a huge, slimy space worm and Erin "Happy Days" Moran's head explodes), but it's about the same quality.Corman probably should have, at least, stuck to ripping off EITHER "Star Wars" or "Alien", but instead he wastes most of his meager budget in a pointless and risible spaceship battle scene at the beginning before settling into a fairly creative "Alien"-type story where a space crew in a remote outpost are menaced by a horrible creature.
But the twist is it's not an alien, but a spontaneously mutating monster they created in a misbegotten experiment to deal with a food shortage back on Earth.Jesse Vint is kind of an odd leading man for one of these kind of movies as he's mostly famous for 70's "hicksploitation" films like "Macon County Line" and "Black Oak Conspiracy".
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.
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?
Mike Colby(Jesse Vint)is an intergalactic mercenary who is sent by The Man to desert planet called Xarbia.A group of scientists working there created slimy alien named Subject 20.Of course the creature escapes and all hell breaks loose..."Forbidden World" by Allan Holzman is a guilty pleasure of mine.It's a chock full of gore,slime and sleazy nudity.The special effects are cheap and gooey,the script is very silly and there is plenty of naked female flesh provided by June Chadwick and Dawn Dunlap.The acting is generally decent and the climax is insanely yucky.A must-see,if you enjoyed "Galaxy of Terror","Humanoids from the Deep" or "Inseminoid".8 slimy aliens out of 10..
Forbidden World (1982)** (out of 4) Made on the re-modeled sets from GALAXY OF TERROR, this sci-fi/horror flick isn't nearly as good but it does offer up plenty of gore and nudity.
As you can tell, this is yet another ALIEN clone and while it's certainly far from a good movie it's still pretty hard to resist with its short 77-minute running time and the amount of sleaze on hand.
The story itself is one we've seen countless times and it's clear the producer (Roger Corman) wasn't overly interested in anything but the gore and nudity..
This shameless Alien rip-off is packed to the brim with gore and nudity and never pretends to be more than just an hour and seventeen minutes of pure escapism.For a low-budget movie, the research station set doesn't look bad at all.
The catchy synth soundtrack is also worth mentioning.If you're looking for a serious sci-fi horror movie, steer well clear of this film, but if you're in the mood for a bit of trashy fun, you could do a lot worse than Forbidden World!.
I love Roger Corman's movies they are my favorite Sci-fi trash movies,with a beauty girls on cast,yes it's a rip off Alien,but who cares,the good things are to be copied of course and this enjoyable movie has all ellements to hold you until the end, a bit bloody to my taste indeed,but has a several sexy scenes in the station with gorgeous Dawn Dunlap and June Chadwick, a nice view of the heaven that pay every cent which l'd spent to get the DVD,gore and nasty in most of time it's amused me all the time.....thanks Corman for your holy existence!!Resume:First watch: 2017 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 6.
"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'.
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.
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.
It all seems oddly coercive.The "monster" in this movie spends most of the run time just looking like a pile of mud.
According to the book that comes with the Shout Factory release of the film, Holzman shot 94 camera set-ups in one day to achieve the frenetic editing style of this sequence.In the Wikipedia setup for this film, they report that this film was panned by critics as a "cheap, exploitive imitation Alien with sex, nudity, uneven editing, cheap special effects and an audio track that some found unpleasant." This sounds like a beacon for me screaming, "SEE THIS FILM NOW." I wouldn't say the music is badit's just a strange bit of electronic music that often feels like it doesn't fit the film.
Another a sleazy monster movie featuring plenty of sex scenes, women showering together and a toothy Giger-esque little buddy killing scientists.Read more at bandsaboutmovies.com/2017/06/30/forbidden-world-1982/.
There's just something special about some of these early 80's Corman "cult classics." This is maybe the least impressive of the ones I've seen ("Galaxy of Terror" and "Humanoids From the Deep" being tops) but it still has it's moments and is entertaining enough.It's clearly self-aware, but not in a tongue-in-cheek campy way.
A couple's moans while having sex, a crewman watching on security cam while playing with a fancy light up yo-yo thing that makes a zing sound and a guy sitting on his bed playing a translucent space sax.It could have used some more scares and more effective kill scenes.
A Marshall in the Alliance Mike Colby (Jesse Vint) is pulled out of stasis by his long-suffering Cylon partner SAM-104 (voiced by Don Olivera) to have a space battle before whizzing off through a effects shot to the planet Xarbia, where genetic researchers are creating a new kind of life form that gets loose and starts eating everyone.
Corman's didn't learn his lesson there either; when he remade it as Dead Space in the 1990's, the only improvement was this time the monster looked better.
Countless cheap (and expensive) films have copied Alien, and this may well be the best.Although a sequel to Roger Corman's earlier Galaxy of Terror, which was more of a Star Trek rip-off than Alien, Forbidden World has nothing to do with Galaxy of Terror except they share sets and are clearly set in the same universe as one another.It is full of gore, clever special effects, good performances, fitting mood-setting music, sex and screaming.
These are the only redeeming scenes in the film.The rest of the movie is spent in a space station where an illegal lab experiment has gone awry and is killing off the crew one by one.
The Wrestling Movie") does a decent job working in confined quarters; genre buffs will know that this typically cheap Roger Corman production re-uses sets from "Galaxy of Terror" as well as special effects shots from "Battle Beyond the Stars".
Roger Corman produced this film and although his movies almost always made money*, they always were made with minuscule budgets.
This one, however, is pretty much like most of Corman's films--super-cheap, kind of cheesy and a bit dumb...but also almost entertaining enough to keep your interest.
After all, if the story (a re-working of ALIEN) doesn't keep your interest, the film tossed in quite a bit of gratuitous nudity to keep your interest!When the film begins, there is a really crappy space battle that looked very, very dated for the early 80s.
Otherwise, not a film most folks would want to watch and would do a lot better just watching ALIEN.By the way, 're-working' is also occasionally a nice way to say 'blatant ripoff'.*Corman's only money-losing film (out of over 400 credits) was reportedly "The Intruder" (starring William Shatner).
The monster itself looks totally silly.The film has dated badly which isn't surprising since it's such a ripoff and has nothing original.This is a companion piece to two other Roger Corman flicks: Galaxy of Terror and Battle Beyond the Stars..
From legendary B-movie producer Roger Corman, Forbidden World is a cheap, cheesy and sleazy Alien rip-off that makes up for its low production values by chucking in as much gloopy gore and female nudity as possible.The film opens with intergalactic trouble-shooter Mike (Jesse Vint) being woken from cryogenic sleep by his loyal robot SAM-104 (who looks like a bargain basement stormtrooper) to help defend against an enemy attack; after a terrible space dog-fight that makes use of footage from Corman's Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), a victorious Mike receives orders to visit the planet Xarbia, where there has been an accident in a high security laboratory.On arrival, Mike is told that the result of a genetic experiment is on the loose, the creature continuously mutating as it grows.
The bigger it gets, the meaner and more ravenous it becomes, with humans on the menu.The directorial debut of film editor Allan Holzman, Forbidden World is tacky and tasteless trash that doesn't have any pretensions: it's aim is to please its target audience of B-movie fans, and that it most certainly does.
Once Mike has set foot on Xarbia, its non-stop gooey effects and gratuitous T&A from the lab's two female scientists (played by June Chadwick and Dawn Dunlap), both of whom have rocking bodies and absolutely no qualms about getting naked.After a whole load of messy gore (the victims slowly turning into a mushy mess), some nookie, and the welcome sight of Chadwick and Dunlap in the shower together, the film ends in splattery style with Mike having to remove a cancerous tumour from a fully conscious man without anaesthetic in order to feed the growth to the monster.
Almost perfect: It has space ships, laser battles, a cool drooling grinning skulled alien, abundant gratuitous female nudity, an excellent early electronica musical score, buckets of gore, slimy alien killings, voyeurism, stuff exploding, girls sunbathing naked in space, is over quickly (77 minutes: perfect for limited attention spans) and the hero is actually the movie's brilliant dork character, whom the surviving female hottie (Dawn Dunlap, who gets naked a lot in her movies) was secretly really in love with all the time.
The real movie is about the geek and how he beats this transmogrifying alien mass of goo and teeth.Also known as MUTANT, director Allan Holzman's FORBIDDEN WORLD is of course the 3rd of the Big Three Alien Sleaze Epics from the very early 1980's which exploited the ideas Dan O'Bannon and Ridley Scott cooked up for ALIEN.
All three were released in the US by Roger Corman's New World Films and make a sort of unofficial Trio -- The first was Norman "Warm & Fuzzy" Warren's deceptively cheesy looking HORROR PLANET (or INSEMINOID) in 1980, then Bob Clark's GALAXY OF TERROR (or MIND WARP: AN INFINITY OF TERROR) in 1981, then Holzman's FORBIDDEN WORLD in 1982.
It is a difficult movie to watch.Contrastingly, FORBIDDEN WORLD exists as a Sadean fantasy, with the alien more or less leaving it's grubby mitts off the ladies, who both disrobe twice and engage in relations with the manbeef action star lead, and THEN take a shower together.
One of the interesting aspects of the film is how it repeatedly disrobes it's women and then places them in harm's way, with this grinning, drooling, slimy alien just a tentacle slither away, and as with GALAXY OF TERROR much of what we now know as Hentai Anime and it's unsavory sexual violence was given root in what we see in these films: Slimy, tubular, disgusting aliens having their way with or just simply ripping apart aggressively gorgeous, sexy women in states of undress or nudity.On that level of thinking, FORBIDDEN WORLD is probably the most exploitative of the trio, using it's subject matter literally where GALAXY OF TERROR and HORROR PLANET both had sub-textural meaning to what was happening on camera.
Allan Holzman stuck with the basics: Slimy alien running loose on isolated space station with nubile females showering together while scruffy 2 day growth faced action types search for it with flashlights and ineffective weapons.
Forbidden World is set sometime in the distant future as the galaxy is on the brink of starvation, on an isolated desert planet called Xarbia a team of genetic scientists have tried to create a new form of food that grows at an incredible rate.
Soon the decision becomes irrelevant as it hatches anyway & kills unsuspecting crew-member Jimmy (Michael Bowen), now with a slimy genetic mutant with lots of sharp teeth & powerful tentacles slithering around no one is safe as it sees us humans as a nice source of food...Co-edited & directed by Allan Holzman Forbidden World is a decent enough Alien (1979) rip-off, the way the alien looks, the way it goes through different stages of appearance plus the overall look & feel of the film will remind you of Alien.
It's far from a masterpiece, it's a bit slow & dull at times but it doesn't try to be anything other than a 'slimy alien on the loose killing people' sci-fi horror film very much in the mould of Alien.Director Holzman doesn't do anything special & the film has a number of flaws, first the alien creature is very static, fake looking & hardly moves.
There's a fair amount of nudity as well which I ain't complaining about.Technically Forbidden World is alright, the production design has dated the film badly & the sets remind of Alien.
The acting was OK but nothing special.Forbidden World is an Alien rip-off & nothing more, it's as simple & straight forward as that.
Produced by king of the cheapies Roger Corman who also produced another early 80's sci-fi horror Galaxy of Terror (1981) which is a better film than Forbidden World in my opinion....
How could you not like a movie in which the monster is frequently called a "dingwhopper", and which packs these fantastic lines: Barbara : "I hear you're the best troubleshooter in the federation.
Subject Twenty, a metamorphic mutant(whose metabolism is rising at an astonishing rate) accidentally created through genetic engineering(what else?)while scientists were attempting to develop a new food source in a laboratory isolated on a planet, gets loose and goes on a violent rampage in a space station.
Jesse Vint is Space Commander Mike Colby, sent to the station to help kill the damned monster, black, slimy, with slobbery teeth, continuously growing.
Forbidden World (or Mutant if you own the German version) is clearly an Alien rip-off.
I won't spoil it, but it will be something very unrealistic and daft.Forbidden World is really a movie for fans of horror/Alien-like movies only.
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.
Cliché Characters are us....But the monster, a poor cousin to the one in alien, is what ruins this movie.