The Federation agent Mike Colby (Jesse Vint) is sent to the remote planet Xarbia to attend the call of scientists. Mike learns that the lethal genetic experiment Subject 20 that was created by the scientists has become dangerous. Mike wants to terminate Subject 20, but the responsible for the facility, Dr. Gordon Hauser (Linden Chiles), is reluctant to destroy the experiment. However, when Subject 20 gets loose from his cage, he begins to kill the personal of the facility. "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. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "Galáxia Proibida" ("Forbidden World")

I don't have to tell you what this movie is a ripoff of because it's so blatantly obvious you could see it a light year away. As much as I dearly love this movie, it's just very, very bad. Not least because the space shots are all recycled from Battle Beyond the Stars and the rubber monster looks about as convincing as the Shat's new rug. The plot? 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. The one thing I think saves this movie from being a complete flop are the characters, particularly Fox Harris' character Doctor Cal. I don't know why but his slightly nihilistic pessimism and constant smoking have a strange charm about them. He should've had his own movie, that's how good he is. Linden Chiles' Hauser is also quite fun to watch, if a little predictable. I kind of feel sorry for SAM, he's always getting switched off. The deaths are a bit over the top, the sex and nudity are a little on the large side, and the sky outside is quite obviously blue, no matter how much tint you stick on the lens. 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. That aside, it was worse. He even used THE SAME F*CKING STOCK FOOTAGE for the space shots. What a cheapskate.

Allan Holzman takes us on an unnecessary but highly enjoyable roller-coaster ride in this epically bad film. Everything about it screams B-movie, from the terrible acting of the male actors, the gratuitous full frontal nudity of the actresses, the jumpy and improbable plot, the cheesy lines. Movies like this are like a tasty cheeseburger in a cheap fast food restaurant. It's unhealthy, and disgustingly greasy, but after finishing it you feel a satisfied customer, and the next time you're in the neighbourhood you might just drop in for more. Yes, it's an Alien rip-off. Small crew, isolated base on a distant planet, and a monster that is made for killing and feeding only. And yes, they stole that robot design directly from Star Wars' stormtroopers. Are those reasons to dislike "Forbidden World"? Far from it. It steals shamelessly, and if anything the obviously stolen ideas make this movie even more fun to watch. I would have hated it if they tried to hide the fact this is a blatant rip-off. 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. Want to ehm.. see some trouble?"Barbara: "If it is intelligent, have you tried communicating with it?" Mike: "That's about the stupidest damn idea I heard all day"Dr. Timbergen: "Let's see how my wildly mutating cells get along with yours.""Forbidden World" makes no effort to be classy, it just shoves all the goodies in your face, and says "feast on this." So I did, and it was worth every second.

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. A professional problem-solver (Jesse Vint) is awaken out of a cyber sleep so that he can assist a group of people isolated on a space station. It seems the nutty scientist has created some sort of creature that has come to life and is now picking off the crew one by one. 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. I was pretty shocked to see how much gore and nudity was packed into this thing considering how short it is. The movie has a pretty good looking monster that starts off as a blob like thing and slowly turns into a pretty good sized killer. I really loved the black skin and those giant teeth were another plus. The attack scenes are all pretty effective due in large part to the special effects by John Carl Buechler. We get a wide range of deaths from people being ripped apart to their entire bodies melting right in front of your eyes. All of them look fairly realistic and the amount of gore and oozing material ranks very high and especially when you consider how much of this stuff was being cut out of movies by the MPAA at the time. The nudity level is also pretty high as actresses June Chadwick and Dawn Dunlap have no problems disrobing and we even get a bizarre scene of the two together in the shower. Performance wise the actors aren't too bad and certainly no worse than what you'd expect to see in a film like this. FORBIDDEN WORLD, as you'd expect, is far from a classic though and the biggest problem is that the screenplay has a paper thin story and the characters are even weaker. As much as I liked seeing the two woman nude, I really didn't care about them or anyone else. Without much interest it was just way too hard to care what happened to any of these people. 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.