This is also a particularly messy film with a lot of blood, guts, pus and slime that overtakes the picture 17 minutes into the film when Subject 20 gets loose the second time latching onto a victims face eating its way into his skull. ![]() However, there are some new shots of the spacecraft as well as shots of the research lab. The space battle is stock footage borrowed from Corman's BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS (1980). Mike Colby is awakened from suspended animation by his robot partner, SAM 104 when his ship comes under fire by attacking space ships. GALAXY OF TERROR (1981) utilized this simplistic innovation but was far more successful at making such set additions appear less obvious.Īnother money saving device was used during the opening space battle. The walls are adorned with dozens of egg crates and McDonald's sandwich boxes. Production technicians came up with some ingenious methods with which to create the interiors of the station hallways and rooms. Suddenly, the appendage erupts from the poor woman's back shooting a geyser of blood into the air.Ī budget is something FORBIDDEN WORLD had very little of. Typing into the computer, "Can we co-exist?" the monster responds by slithering a huge phallic shaped tentacle over the computer board and between her legs. A similar scene occurs late in the film when, after the monster has tied itself into the stations computer system, one of the women gets an idea to communicate with the creature in the hopes of getting out of the scientific laboratory alive. As she gets naked changing into her skimpy night attire, slime covers the camera lens. The monster itself has some twisted affinity towards the female cast in the film.ĭuring a scene in which Tracy Baxter takes off her clothes in her room, a POV shot from inside a ventilation duct shows the alien watching her from above. ![]() Buechler) worked on the effects for the movie and they're good for what had to have been an extremely low budget evidently much smaller than the previous years GALAXY OF TERROR and BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS (1980), a film that Corman splurged more frivolously than normal. The mixing of sex and death is one of the uncomfortable elements seen in FORBIDDEN WORLD (1982). This technique continues during the scene when Earl is killed by the monster. When he's alerted to the location of the escaped Subject 20 he searches the corridors of the station while flashes of Barbara and Mike having sex appear on screen. There's a fairly torrid sex scene between Barbara and Mike while Earl, a watchman, plays peeping tom. One such practice seen several times during the movie is a subliminal effect showing an increasingly rapid succession of shots of images that have yet to take place or are transpiring elsewhere. Holzman puts his editing skills to use here creating scenes that alternate between the artistic and the disgusting. Despite the onslaught of sex, nudity, grue and gore, there is an attempt to create something more than an exercise in exploitation moviemaking. Tapping into the stations computers, communication is cut off and the remaining survivors must find a way of killing the mutation.Įditor turned Director, Holzman does a fine job with what little material he has to work with from a script by frequent trash peddler, Jim Wynorski. By the time the true origin of the alien creature is revealed, it is nearly too late. The experiment gets out of control and the monstrosity escapes the lab changing its form and grows at an alarming rate. The scientists call the being Subject 20. In creating a solution for a galaxy wide food crisis, the scientists on Xarbia create an organism called a Metamorph, a creature made up of a bacterial substance called Proto-B and mixed with human cells. Intergalactic space ranger, Mike Colby and his robotic partner, SAM 104, are summoned to the planet Xarbia to investigate an altercation that has taken place at a medical research laboratory stationed on the desert biosphere. ***WARNING! This review contains pics of gruesome violence and nudity*** Cal Timbergen) Scott Paulin (Earl Richards) Barbara Glaser), Dawn Dunlap (Tracy Baxter), Linden Chiles (Dr. Jesse Vint (Mike Colby), June Chadwick (Dr.
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