“Forbidden World” (not to be confused with “Forbidden Planet”) is a low-budget sci-fi/horror flick produced by Roger Corman (“The Terror”). It’s essentially a rip-off of “Alien”, uses the Vasquez Rocks filming location that was featured in one of the most iconic episodes of the original “Star Trek” tv series and it even uses footage from “Battle Beyond The Stars”, which was also produced by Corman. It’s an incredibly disappointing movie.

Set in the distant future, Mike Colby (Jesse Vint “Silent Running”) is a federation marshal that is dispatched to a research facility on a remote desert planet. He discovers that a genetic experiment has gone horribly wrong leading the creation of a killer mutant monster.

The characters in “Forbidden World” are so boring that I would prefer to stare at a blank wall rather than hear them talk. The female characters are solely there to remove their clothes; there is even a shower scene in which they both stand together. Colby’s robot colleague, SAM-104, looks pretty cheap and nasty. The worst thing though has to be the monster because it looks so similar to the Xenemorph from “Alien” that I cannot believe that the filmmakers of “Forbidden World” did not get sued. It looks tacky and not believable in the slightest, especially when compared to “Alien”.

Mediocre special effects, dull characters and a mundane plot make it a real challenge to get any real enjoyment from “Forbidden World”. It seems like it exists just to show some blood and nudity but I never felt like anybody involved was enjoying what they were doing. Corman has produced hundreds of movies over the years and “Forbidden World” feels like it came off an assembly line with love and care from the people making it. Just watch “Alien” again and do not bother with “Forbidden World”.