Forbidden World 4K 1982

In the '70s and early '80s, the former studio of 'B-movie king' Roger Corman's New World Pictures produced a slew of good B-movies that have become cult classics in their own right, and helped launch the careers of directors such as Joe Dante, Martin Scorsese and James Cameron. Corman masterfully exploited themes relevant to the time and released “Piranhas” after “Jaws,” “Galaxy of Terror” after “Alien” and “Battle Beyond the Stars” after “Star Wars.” “Forbidden World” exploits the success of the latter two. Critics generally regard it as a blatant imitation of the pictures, although from the “Alien” here except for the general concept with the chase of a creepy creature in the corridors of a space station and a similar monster in the finale, by the way, made extremely well, at the initial stage is a tentacle suction cup, but then mutating into an impressive likeness of the Alien with tentacles. From “Star Wars” the movie got quite spectacular flights and shootouts on spaceships in the beginning, the spaceship itself, reminding “Millennium Falcon”, charismatic space hunter, resembling Han Solo, and his robot assistant - some analog of Chewbacca, but endowed with the ability to speak.

The plot of the movie, based on the story written by Jim Wynorski and R.J.Robertson - not the last personalities in the world of low-budget filmmaking, plunges us into the space environment, where the heroes will have to deal with the result of genetic experiments conducted on a space station on a distant planet. Filming took place in the sets left over from Corman's previous films. And the futuristic surroundings are somewhat disturbed when we are shown a remote control with buttons with inscriptions in English, which you won't see in “Star Wars”. But in general it does little harm to the movie. Roger Corman knew very well what could best attract the viewer and keep him at the screen: “As long as rivers of blood and naked tits will pay for them, I will shoot them. And, therefore, everything here is in the traditions of the genre - not without red liquid, there is also erotica, and it is really beautiful. What does damage the movie is the presence of a number of logical holes related to the experiment itself, and a rather absurd way of killing the monster at the end.