Full Moon Video | Buy at Amazon | Review by Sinferno
Alien abduction, the secret plague of poor rural folks with few teeth and even less credibility, at least until now... It seems the aliens have apparently stepped up their game and kidnapped several attractive society women to better understand the human race sexually. (As if they just couldn't monitor our talk shows from space to get a pretty close approximation). Because this is a Surrender Cinema feature you rest assured the latex isn't going into realistic creature effects, but into the wardrobe for the always scantily clad female cast. Let us extend the usual tentacle of alien curiosity into this one and see what we discover, shall we?
FORBIDDEN ZONE is the story of six society women who are trading stories of romantic conquest around a public pool one day, reminiscing about the best sex that they ever had in their life. Suddenly it occurs to them that all of their tales share a common element, a dashing stranger, who just seemed to show up out of the blue who used their deepest, darkest fantasies to love them like they have never been loved before. Then as they each discuss their romantic memories through a series of stories told; illustrated through fragmented memories (and much initial denial) it all appears that they we all seduced by some spaceman who had the good sense to scramble their brains after the experiment so they wouldn't be forced to face what strange carnal activities they have done behind, ahead of and even with one another. The audience isn't so lucky, for the next ninety minutes while the women's stories are pieced together we too will be forced to relive their every altered, perverted memory imposed upon them by the silver faced man from worlds beyond.
There is all the usual sex going on that you will expect in a Surrender Cinema title, but this time the sheer insanity of the plot even proves distracting to all the usual naked glimpses of heavenly bodies flashing by at the speed of light. While each of the trio has fantasies that could and would be quite alluring in their own right, the inability to logically unite them into a single movie realistically just suffers from "alien logic" if you will pardon the pun. Because the space man can obviously be all things to all women, each lady and her friends are truly unaware that they are being "studied" because from their vantage point it only seems to them that their most detailed, intimate sexual fantasies are taking place. At the end of the movie we learn that while these scenes were romanticized and dramatized in a variety of dreamy locales and settings, in actuality, these recovered memories were nothing but illusions implanted into their minds to make the procedure more "pleasant", while our alien diddled them on the cold metal floor of his spacecraft to better experience our "mating cycle" with some good old fashioned "hands on" scientific experimentation. It sounds absolutely sexist and offensive but because none of the women in this movie are capable of any emotion other than complete and utter confusion or complete sexual satisfaction it is hard to pity their cinematic, trite two dimensional fantasies which only obscured their own victimization. After all, they could have had to watch this entire movie as I did.
| Yucko/Neato Factor: This was R rated. These types of films should ALWAYS be unrated at the very least. The MPAA doesn't want them, and this one you don't either. |
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| Production Values: Hot girls, some nice sets, (some decent backgrounds too) but this was just a long ponderous mess; it asks you to figure out what happens to these women with a series of plot expositions and detailed clues, all so it can scream in your face "Because he's an interstellar rapist. That's why, dumbass!"in the last five minutes. |
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| Realism: Even by loose sci-fi movie standards this was pretty disjointed. Judging by his strange, unscientific data collection techniques, I think the alien read the wrong definition of "snatch" in the English to alien dictionary. It would explain SOOOO MUCH. |
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| Value for Price: For $9.98 you wouldn't have to search the cosmos too long before you found something worse. |
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| Plot: All "anal probe" jokes aside, sexual experimentation has never been more complicated or as painful. |
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