Forbidden World (1982) If you took note of the subtitle of today's post, then you know we could only be speaking of another chunk 'o grindhouse gristle from the Roger Corman assembly line.
Long before the Asylum outfit started pumping out their 'mockbuster' bottom-of-the-barrel knockoffs of Hollywood sci-fi-horror tentpoles, Corman had already perfected that procedure.....
And the Corman-ized shlockbusters were way more fun to watch, slapped together by young 'n hungry filmmakers eager to get their foot in the door....(like Ron Howard, James Cameron, Joe Dante, Robert Towne, Francis Ford Coppola and countless other grads of the Corman "make me a movie in 10 days' school of cinema.....)
"Forbidden World" takes its inspiration (or perspiration) from "Alien" of course, which set new standards in outer space horror.
Off we go to a lonely space lab beset by lab experiments gone horribly awry, resulting in lots of gooey, gory deaths and two hot blondes taking their clothes off at any opportunity.
Not that we're complaining......
And here's something the 'Alien' crew never thought of.......feeding the monster a nice big juicy cancerous tumor from one the dying lab scientists.
Hmmmm......finger lickin' good. What's for dessert? Radioactive waste?
Corman fans (and dare we say, we're among them) will revel in all the trappings, especially those state-of-the-art space lab sets created with egg cartons.......(think of the money Stanley Kubrick could've saved if he'd thought of that....)
Great stuff if you love this stuff....a 3 star (***) essential for Corman completists. Everyone else? Go on, take a chance. Load up on beer and popcorn....knock yourselves out.
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