this needs to be released on DVD

Directed? Are you Allan Holzman? If you are, then it's a honor to meet someone associated with one of the most bizzare, creative and imaginative Corman movie from that era. For me, it ranks right up there with GALAXY OF TERROR as sheer popcorn exploitative fun. Though, it's one glaring flaw was that the entire movie was way too dark in which you couldn't see much of the set, let alone the barfing alien.

What was the deleted material comprised of? Bloopers? Too much blood or gore? Nudity? I know it had to be trimmed to get a R rating.

A word on BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS... it was a terrific movie... one of the best Roger Corman ever put out, but the editing for the space battles were .. well ... very confusing. You seemily have recycled shots of spaceships heading left and right again and again... even with the characters describing the action.. I and as well as others still couldn't make out what was going on.

Alan, your movie RULEZ. And I am honored that you sent me a message about your film & hope we can exchange some others about it. We all love FORBIDDEN WORLD, and not just for the exploitation content. I like how the film has a sort of reckless need to entertain even if it means making wall details out of compartmentalized lunch containers. It's a unique movie and a restoration of the excised footage would be a VERY hot commodity: As far as anyone knows the movie was meant to be 78 minutes long and fullframe. You'd blow everybody's mind with a 90 minute widescreen restoration, and I'd walk over my own mother to see it theatrically.

There *ARE* two legit retail DVD releases of the 78 minute version available: Anolis of Germany has a nice Region 2 PAL release that has the movie's music soundtrack and the theatrical trailer on the ROM, and a Japanese Region 2 NTSC release that is also very nice but without the bonus dealios: I think it's a bit lighter of a transfer though some prefer the PAL color. Both are in print right now, all you need is a Region 2 player and you are set. With a few minutes of Googling both can be headed to anyone reading this overnight.

I think I speak for everyone also when stating that I can watch this movie anytime and enjoy it, seen it a zillion times and plan on a zillion more before passing along. Thanks for the work, it's a wonderful little space nightmare for grown-ups and I hope to GOD nobody ever remakes it (unless it meanz fat payola for you, of course -- you deserve it after having the film become a staple of cult home video science fiction for the ages :D).

has anyone seen Dead Space? It's another Corman production...but it looks like it completely (and i mean virtually every plot element) rips of Forbidden World. I haven't seen it, but if you check out its trailer on videodetective + one of the reviews for it on imdb, you'll see that it is a re-hash of Forbidden World: Space (ranger, marshall, troubleshooter?)... and his robot sidekick!.. gets a distress call from a research facility. he arrives and finds out they've been genetically engineering a new organism (a metaphor) which escapes, and gradually grows larger as it kills the crew. to kill it he injects it with the cancerous blood of one the scientists! in addition to this, from what i can gather, there is a soft-core sex scene a la Forbidden World, and a scene where the crew searches for the organism outside the station on a desert planet! Seriously, how can this even be legal? I suppose Holzman doesn't own the script to Forbidden World...I've got to imagine that Corman productions keeps a tight hold on stuff like that, so I suppose they could just remake their own movies under different titles...but this is just too much.