Showing posts with label classic SF. Show all posts
Showing posts with label classic SF. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Forebidden Planet and the Monster Within

Every subsequent sci-fi movie and TV show is indebted to Forbidden Planet”—Charles Mathews, OSCAR A to Z

It’s Halloween today, and I thought that a post of about Forbidden Planet would be most appropriate. Thanks to our relatives in Australia who gave me this DVD as a Christmas gift last year, the family and I recently watched this delightful and entertaining 1956 classic that, in some ways, jump-started SF movies and TV. The tag line for the film runs like this:

among Altair-4’s many wonders, none is greater or more deadly than the human mind