It seems the scientists were developing their own food source to combat a “galactic” food shortage. The critter then uses the leftovers as a food source. This breaks the human body down into pure protein – while you’re still alive. ‘Subject 20’ infects a victim with, I dunno, mutant jizz or something. Except victims don’t get eaten, not in the traditional sense… Especially if you’re a lab janitor – you’re not qualified, buster. Do you open the incubator and stick your head in for a closer look? Do you fuck. So, there you are, right, a cerebrally-challenged lab janitor called Jimmy (Michael Bowen), mopping your way through congealing gore and animal entrails when you notice the cocoon is beginning to drool. Why the emergency? In fact, how did it munch through all those animals when it’s only the size of a wallet, albeit Paul McCartney’s wallet? Tell you what though, Mike has barely stepped through the door and Barbara’s already giving him the green light. Fair enough, ‘Subject 20’ got loose and chomped its way through a room full of test animals but when Colby arrives it’s in a cocoon and isolated in a glass incubator. The camera sets the tone, following Barbara Glaser’s (June Chadwick) nicely packaged arse down a narrow, claustrophobic corridor (lots of those – corridors, not arses… come to think of it there are lots of arses as well). Mike – “Hope he turned out better than me.”Įxciting laser Peowm! Peowm! done with, Dingwhopper gets down to the proper business at hand: Space erotica. SAM – “Back home your son’s older than you are.” At least it delivers one nice little exchange: Plus it allows Holzman to pad out the running time and punch up an otherwise languid intro. Anyway, that’s your introduction to Colby, that’s how hardcore he is. If you’re still uncertain try the ship’s instruction manual. Then SAM informs him of the imminent jump to hyperspace. So, Mike twiddles a few knobs, shouts “Fire!” a lot and somehow hands out an ass-whupping to the… erm, whoever it is attacking them. This isn’t all that’s familiar – the interior of Colby’s ship looks suspiciously like the Quest from Galaxy Of Terror, only with the lights turned off. A very familiar space battle actually, lifted as it is from Battle Beyond The Stars. Not sure if this is meant to be the product of a rudely interrupted hypersleep or simply director’s artistic license but it comes off sort of “no, wait, don’t switch off, see there’s naughty bits coming up…” We are then treated to a space battle. If you watch carefully here the whole movie plays out in flash-forward. The nonsense begins with Colby awoken from hypersleep by his robot sidekick SAM (Don Olivera) who looks like the result of an illicit coupling between Twiki and a midget stormtrooper. This blighter starts out like a dark squelchy Hot Pocket then evolves into an utterly unreasonable, many-appendaged, computer literate arachno-wotsit. Before you can say “xenomorph”, Mike’s up to his nuts in mutating humans, jugs and a genetically engineered creature. So, what’s the score with this one? Intrepid space hero Mike Colby (Jesse Vint), is sent to the inhospitable planet Xarbia to deal with a scientific experiment gone pear-shaped. I’ll hear no further arguments on the matter. This movie should have been called and shall henceforth be known as Dingwhopper. If I mention Forbidden World to anyone they’ll usually respond with (a) “Do you mean Forbidden Planet?” or (b)… Oh. In some areas also known as Mutant, this is the second in my hugely popular ‘Waste Of Space’ trilogy. However, Subject 20 mutates rapidly and uncontrollably and has killed all of the laboratory subject animals before cocooning itself within an examination booth.Starring: Jesse Vint, June Chadwick, Linden Chiles This life form 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, a genetic research station is located on the remote desert planet of Xarbia and a research team has created an experimental life-form they have designated “Subject 20”.
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