Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Forbidden World (1982, Allen Holzman)

"Forbidden World" - aka. "Mutant" - is an exceptionally entertaining, low-budget "Alien" knock-off from producer, Roger Corman (who else?...). Personally, I'm not a big sci-fi film fan, but this one definitely had enough of what keeps me interested.

Some kind of space marshal gets the call that his assistance is required at a research lab planet in distress. Upon his arrival, he discovers that they've been fucking around with gene splicing bacterial organisms and have inadvertently created a creature they call a 'metamorph'. It starts off looking like a chunk of raw liver that latches on to a guy's face (that doesn't sound familiar at all...) but it soon grows into something out of a Ridley Scott film, while turning every human around into a giant mass of delicious protein...

Cheezy alien gore and tons of full-frontal nudity. I fucking dug it! Much more of a film for the 'exploitation' crowd than the traditional "Star Wars" science-fiction enthusiast. Figuring out a climax that involves having to feed the creature a cancerous tumor to kill it was a stroke of genius with hilarious results. Plus, keeping the females on board hot and horny makes for some promising intergalactic 'action'. "Forbidden Planet" is a good one. The FX are actually pretty decent considering it's shoe-string budget, overall, and it dishes out some nice, gratuitous trashiness. Check it out.

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