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company: New World Pictures
year: 1982
runtime: 77′ / 82′
director: Allan Holzman
cast: Jesse Vint, Dawn Dunlap,
June Chadwick, Linden Chiles,
Fox Harris, Raymond Oliver,
Scott Paulin, Michael Bowen
writers: Tim Cumen,
Jim Wynorski and R. J. Robertson
cinematography: Tim Suhrstedt
music: Susan Justin
Reviewed from a screener provided
by Shout! Factory LLC.
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Forbidden World is due out on two-disc special edition DVD and Blu-ray (content is identical across releases, including the ‘director’s cut’ of the film on a separate DVD) on July 20th, and is currently up for pre-order in both formats through Amazon.com
A cheapie like few others in New World Picture’s extensive and budget conscious library, Allan Holzman’s Forbidden World (also known under its working title Mutant) is a nasty bit of gross-out science fiction horror that offers some serious bang for its meager buck. Pushed into production by an ever-opportunistic Roger Corman as a means of getting an extra day out of a pricey set constructed for Galaxy of Terror, Forbidden World is never much more than a seedy exploitation of the monumental success of Ridley Scott’s Alien, but that doesn’t keep it from being a hell of a lot of fun.
