Forbidden World Blu-ray

[Blu Titan]

Roger Corman movies are a guilty pleasure for me . Thus, I decided to indulge and purchase Forbidden World. Has anyone else purchased or plans to purchase this?

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Forbidden World Blu-ray Review

[csdot]

ordered it the other day for the new low price
love the Roger Corman's Cult Classics series

[Blu Titan]

Originally Posted by csdot

ordered it the other day for the new low price
love the Roger Corman's Cult Classics series

A gentleman with great taste ^^^. I plan to buy all of the movies from the Roger Corman Cult Classic Series. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), I'll be watching them alone. My son is too young and my wife would not watch them. Like the young kids say "its all good".

[davidthenikonuser]

I got this one with Galaxy of Terror. Great b-movies for sure. Can't wait for Star Crash next month.

[bigrob]

when Battle Beyond the Stars is finally released, i'll start collecting the Corman films. am tempted with this one at the moment know but i've spent too much this month

[Klyph]

I have both Forbidden World and Galaxy of Terror. Both have great picture quality considering the age of the films but the audio is pretty bad, Forbidden World having the worst of the two with lots of distortion in the vocals.

[Rob71]

Originally Posted by Blu Titan

Roger Corman movies are a guilty pleasure for me . Thus, I decided to indulge and purchase Forbidden World. Has anyone else purchased or plans to purchase this?

I love his films, all of them. I plan on having a special shelf just for his Blu-ray releases.

[snipemonkey]

Both of them are awesome. They really bring back that ol' early-80s late-night HBO nostalgia for me. Hadn't seen either since my wee elementary school days, but they're just as cool as I remembered.

That said, I gotta pass on STARCRASH. Some movies are just too awful even for me (and that's saying something!). Praying for BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS, though -- greatest Spaceship with Tits movie EVER!

[zardoz]

hello, is this region free ?

[pro-bassoonist]

Zardoz,

The first batch of Corman titles I tested are all Region-A "locked".

Pro-B

[zardoz]

no <3 !!!


thank you Pro-B.

[picture_shooter]

this is one I didn't see yet. I saw it today while picking up Robin Hood, but I passed on it. Now I should have purchased it. Maybe I will stop by the store and get it tomorrow.

[PT Ryan]

Originally Posted by pro-bassoonist

Zardoz,

The first batch of Corman titles I tested are all Region-A "locked".

Pro-B

I tried my copy of Forbidden World on my Region B player and yes, it is locked to A. Lucky I can change the region on my player!

[cakefactory]

I finally splurged and bought this, Death Race 2000, Rock N Roll High School, and Humanoids from the Deep since they're at 17 bucks right now and that's about the cheapest they've ever gotten since 2010 :P

This was pretty awesome. I always heard it referred to as the crummy follow-up to Galaxy of Terror, but I liked it more. Galaxy of Terror definitely has the better production design and effects (probably largely due to James Cameron!), but this one is a lot more fun and the score is amusing and boopy instead of ear-splitting.

An apparent badass mercenary dude (who looks about 50 and like a combo of Dick Miller and Harry Dean Stanton) is brought out of hypersleep to deal with some kind of genetic mutation loose at a small outpost. There is also a 30ish babe of a geneticist and a 20ish babe of a nurse, both of whom get naked a LOT and throw themselves at him, cause how could any young woman resist that guy?! The genetic mutation starts off as a little cocoon thing, melts and melts a guy's face in the process, and then turns into a really, really shitty and boxy thing with a head like a papier mache rendition of the monster from Alien.

The score is ludicrous, with all kinds of synth boops. This is a gigantic improvement from the hideous score to Galaxy of Terror. It's a less visually (or narratively) ambitious movie than Galaxy of Terror, but it doesn't really matter considering how much more entertaining it is. The younger woman in particular is hilarious, spending her "professional" scenes in tight pink pajamas, several other scenes in tiny bathrobes that expose her breasts, other scenes naked, and one crucial scene where she confronts the monster in a only slightly more regular bathrobe that goes up to her ass! What the hell is her job even supposed to be?! She has the look of one of those dolly birds from the 60s. In addition to her, we have a mad doctor that looks like a young, scrawny Alfred Molina.

Another thing of special note is the editing, which is hilariously over the top. There are a couple scenes in which the editing starts cutting back and forth between two shots increasingly quick until it hits seizure levels. The opening and ending in particular are just bizarre, with what seems like the hero dreaming of all the highlights of the movie in super-choppy edited form! Based on the women throwing themselves at him, I was expecting it to be revealed to just be the fever dream of this grotty middle-aged dude, but nope!

So yeah, I'd definitely recommend it at its current "low" price level. I haven't watched the "Mutant" disc yet, but I did watch the making-of doc, and it seemed like all parties involved thought it was the superior version. I'll check it out some time.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by cakefactory

I finally splurged and bought this, Death Race 2000, Rock N Roll High School, and Humanoids from the Deep since they're at 17 bucks right now and that's about the cheapest they've ever gotten since 2010 :P

This was pretty awesome. I always heard it referred to as the crummy follow-up to Galaxy of Terror, but I liked it more. Galaxy of Terror definitely has the better production design and effects (probably largely due to James Cameron!), but this one is a lot more fun and the score is amusing and boopy instead of ear-splitting.

An apparent badass mercenary dude (who looks about 50 and like a combo of Dick Miller and Harry Dean Stanton) is brought out of hypersleep to deal with some kind of genetic mutation loose at a small outpost. There is also a 30ish babe of a geneticist and a 20ish babe of a nurse, both of whom get naked a LOT and throw themselves at him, cause how could any young woman resist that guy?! The genetic mutation starts off as a little cocoon thing, melts and melts a guy's face in the process, and then turns into a really, really shitty and boxy thing with a head like a papier mache rendition of the monster from Alien.

The score is ludicrous, with all kinds of synth boops. This is a gigantic improvement from the hideous score to Galaxy of Terror. It's a less visually (or narratively) ambitious movie than Galaxy of Terror, but it doesn't really matter considering how much more entertaining it is. The younger woman in particular is hilarious, spending her "professional" scenes in tight pink pajamas, several other scenes in tiny bathrobes that expose her breasts, other scenes naked, and one crucial scene where she confronts the monster in a only slightly more regular bathrobe that goes up to her ass! What the hell is her job even supposed to be?! She has the look of one of those dolly birds from the 60s. In addition to her, we have a mad doctor that looks like a young, scrawny Alfred Molina.

Another thing of special note is the editing, which is hilariously over the top. There are a couple scenes in which the editing starts cutting back and forth between two shots increasingly quick until it hits seizure levels. The opening and ending in particular are just bizarre, with what seems like the hero dreaming of all the highlights of the movie in super-choppy edited form! Based on the women throwing themselves at him, I was expecting it to be revealed to just be the fever dream of this grotty middle-aged dude, but nope!

So yeah, I'd definitely recommend it at its current "low" price level. I haven't watched the "Mutant" disc yet, but I did watch the making-of doc, and it seemed like all parties involved thought it was the superior version. I'll check it out some time.

Excellent choice!

I agree 100% that Forbidden World is a more fun movie than Galaxy of Terror, although I love both films.

I like the Mutant version on the DVD, but the picture quality is so bad on it that I'll defer to the Blu-ray theatrical version in the future.

I'm looking forward to reading your takes on the other Corman films that you bought.


Here is a double-post of my review that I posted in the Roger Corman on Blu-ray thread last week...

Forbidden World, another glorious Roger Corman production, not only rips off the plot of Alien, but it also rips off footage from a previous Corman film, Battle Beyond the Stars. The fact that this movie is not only watchable, but actually quite fun, is a testament to the abilities of the low-budget film crew, all of whom were quite enthusiastic about the project.

Jesse Vint, who is best known for a myriad of supporting roles during the late 1970s and early 1980s, plays an intergalactic federal marshal who is assigned to investigate problems at a genetics laboratory on an isolated planet. It tuns out that the scientists' plans to engineer a life form capable of feeding the population has spiraled out of control, resulting in a massive mutant creature that turns humans into gross indistinct masses of protein for its own food source. This plot is basically just an excuse for copious amounts of gore and gratuitous nudity, but the end result is nonetheless entertaining. I love that the two female "scientists", played by June Chadwick and Dawn Dunlap, walk around the laboratory in clear stripper high heels and have a propensity to have long serious conversations while washing each other's hair in the shower. The mutant looks like a knockoff Walmart version of the creature in Alien, but effective camerawork and quick editing make it halfway fearsome during the confrontation scenes.

Years have passed since the last time that I saw Forbidden World, but I quite enjoyed revisiting it last night. It's another example of how even the bad sci-fi movies of the 1980s were still good simply because they were so...so 1980s.

If you're a 1980s kid like me, in fact, then you'll remember June Chadwick from her role in the original V miniseries as the blonde alien who is Diana's second-in-command.

This Blu-ray delivers the goods in terms of picture quality that is a vast improvement over the DVD edition, and especially, over the inferior director's cut on the DVD. The audio quality is not stellar, but it's becoming of what we get on these old Corman films, and I have no complaints.

[cakefactory]

I've never seen V. I remember seeing a bunch of clips from it on some Sci-Fi TV/Film history survey I saw a few times as a kid, and I've always heard good things, so maybe I should get the DVD sometime.

Did you watch the director's cut of this?

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by cakefactory

I've never seen V. I remember seeing a bunch of clips from it on some Sci-Fi TV/Film history survey I saw a few times as a kid, and I've always heard good things, so maybe I should get the DVD sometime.

Did you watch the director's cut of this?

Yes, I watched the director's cut, Mutant, on the DVD disc after watching the Blu-ray, mainly to listen to the commentary track.

Mutant is just as fun all around, but the picture quality of the DVD is so godawful that I'll defer to the theatrical version (Forbidden World) on the Blu-ray from now on.

I'd go back and get the V series on DVD myself, but I just know that a Blu-ray will be announced the split second after I hit "submit payment" on those DVDs. I loved that series. I was a kid when it first aired, and it really blew me away. I've seen the shows recently, and they....well...they don't hold up in present day, but I love 'em just the same for nostalgia's sake.

[Werdsniper2]

I'm on an 80's sci-fi binge right now so I'm looking at grabbing this.

But the audio review on this site is pretty bad...2/5

[davidthenikonuser]

Originally Posted by Werdsniper2

I'm on an 80's sci-fi binge right now so I'm looking at grabbing this.

But the audio review on this site is pretty bad...2/5

Not sure what the reviewer was expecting. It's a low budget B movie, so it's not going to sound like a Star Wars movie. I didn't notice anything wrong with it.

Buy it and enjoy, it's a fun one. Also get Galaxy of Terror.

[bigdaddyhorse]

Originally Posted by Werdsniper2

I'm on an 80's sci-fi binge right now so I'm looking at grabbing this.

But the audio review on this site is pretty bad...2/5

It might not get any better though (movie was made so cheap it's not a shock it is lacking any punch) and it could go OOP at any time. I'm kinda surprised this and Galaxy of Terror are still around 9 years later. It isn't quite as fun as Galaxy, but is a blast. If you don't order the disc, at least find a way to watch the flick.