Forbidden World

8/31/2024

**_Another Corman-produced knockoff of “Alien,” with softcore_** In the distant future, a troubleshooting flying ace (Jesse Vint) is redirected to a remote desert planet in order to help a bio-engineering team deal with a mutating organism. “Forbidden World” (1982) is the second “Alien” knockoff produced by Roger Corman and even uses some of the sets of the previous one from the year prior, “Galaxy of Terror” (as well as some space F/X from “Battle Beyond the Stars”). Other than that, the films aren’t connected. While my title blurb is condescending, Ridley Scott’s iconic movie itself ripped-off every main aspect of the first half of “Planet of the Vampires” from 1965, aka “Terror in Space.” So it wasn't exactly original, although it was well-done and superior. Like “Galaxy of