Trivia / Forbidden World

• Executive Meddling: The original cut was originally titled Mutant and contained several comedic moments. However, Roger Corman hated mixing genres (especially comedy) and after seeing test audiences laugh at the film, he ordered director Allan Holzman to make thirteen cuts, each one removing something that the test audiences found funny, reducing the movie's runtime to 77 minutes. Corman also had the title changed because he claimed that nobody would know what a mutant was. He sent his assistant to a local high school to ask the students which title was more appealing, with the replacement Forbidden World being the more popular vote. Although the film did well, Holzman was disappointed because he felt that Corman's edits made the film mundane, with the more serious tone drawing attention to how absurd the movie was. Holzman kept a print of his director's cut and refused to give it to Corman until Corman threatened to have him arrested. The two eventually reached an agreement, and the print was donated to UCLA (after Holzman made a copy). Holzman's 84-minute director's cut would finally see the light of day (albeit in rather poor quality) in 2010 along with the theatrical cut in Shout! Factory's Blu-Ray restoration of the film.
• Self-Adaptation: The remake was also produced by Roger Corman.
• Similarly Named Works;
  • Unrelated to Forbidden Planet and Forbidden Zone.
  • The Dead Space remake has nothing to do with the Dead Space video games.

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