FORBIDDEN WORLD

“A guy in my crew came up to me and said ‘This is a sleazy rip-off of ALIEN.’ And I said “Yes, but it’s the best sleazy rip-off of ALIEN ever made.” — FORBIDDEN WORLD sfx artist John Carl Buechler

Oh, boy! The most joyfully exploitive Space Junk film of them all, gleefully wearing a quintessential Heavy Metal magazine aesthetic on its sleeve. A badass space cowboy joins a group of scientists, beds the Playboy Channel babes (are those clear high heels and pink jumpsuits regulation?) and battles a lab-made monster with super-saliva that reduces its prey to throbbing gristle.

Longtime Corman editor Allan Holzman (CRAZY MAMA, BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS) brought tripped-out ‘70s rock n’ roll cutting, a healthy sense of humor and buckets of gore to this raucous directorial debut.