There are some really disgusting gore effects that caught me off guard. The film is down and dirty, just like Alien, and features copious amounts of nudity because it wouldn't be a Roger Corman film without it. The look and feel of the film are great while the film doesn't feel like it has a low budget. You know that there will be an alien that gets loose aboard a spaceship, killing off the crew members one by one, until it is defeated and the credits roll. You already know that it is an Alien rip-off, so you know what is coming. Starting with Piranha in 1978, Corman would produce some of the best rip-offs ever made.įorbidden World is one of the many rip-offs that Corman produced but it is sadly one of the worst. Never one to miss and opportunity, Corman decided that he was to rip them off right back.
Corman has been making films since the 50s and it was during the 70s that he watched young upcoming filmmakers took all that Corman has spent decades building and ripped him off. The staff of the station includes the head of research, Gordon Hauser, his assistant Barbara Glaser, lab assistant Tracy Baxter, the station head of security and Cal Timbergen, the chief of bacteriology.įorbidden World is a 1982 Alien rip-off from producer Roger Corman, who is the master of low budget schlock. After Colby settles in, his decision to terminate Subject 20 to prevent further deaths is met with research-minded secrecy and resistance.
Professional troubleshooter Mike Colby, accompanied by his robot assistant SAM-104, is called in to investigate the problem. After Subject 20 hatches from its cocoon, it begins killing the personnel at the station, starting with the lab tech charged with cleansing the subject lab of the dead animal test subjects.
However, Subject 20 mutates rapidly and uncontrollably and kills all of the laboratory subject animals before cocooning itself within an examination booth. This lifeform was built out of the synthetic DNA strain, "Proto B", and was intended to stave off a galaxy-wide food crisis. In the distant future, at a genetic research station located on the remote desert planet of Xarbia, a research team has created an experimental lifeform they have designated "Subject 20".