Forbidden World (1982)
Last Watch Date - December 25, 2024
Total Times Watched - Once
Comments
What do you get when you mix Alien and The Thing? Not quite this movie. You also have to add in some 70s synth, some sleaze, and some of the psychadelic 60s camera trickery to get this gem. Is this worth even talking about? Let's find out!
Because this is such a stupid movie to begin with, I'm not going to spend a bunch of time on it. The acting is fine at times, awful at others. The characters themselves are bizarre. The script makes no sense in many places and shoehorns in some really silly situations like "fair is fair, get naked" when a guy comes across a naked female ... sunbathing? But they're in space, there's no sun, and the room has no windows anyway. Listen I'm not complaining here, she was a fine looking woman, but it still makes no sense. Oh yeah, this was also pretty much immediately after he got done ploughing the other woman on the ship. He says "I had a hard night" with this horrible grin on his face.
If you hate sleaze, that's fine, that's really the only part of the movie that has it. The rest of it is an odd science fiction-horror combination that will have you thinking to yourself "who did the sound in this movie?!" Or maybe "why does the camera keep having flashing montages?" Or even "why is everyone screaming all the time?"
This movie is pretty short at around 1 hour and 17 minutes, however it actually ends around 1:13 and somehow feels like it lasts 3:11. There's enough script in this movie to last approximately 15 minutes and enough story to last maybe 5 more. This could've been an episode of the Twilight Zone.
Recommended?
No. Not at all. There's a remake of it called Dead Space from 91 that has Bryan Cranston though, so maybe you can watch that if you're interested.
