Forbidden Planet (Spacewalks)

Show & Culture

In 2257, the spaceship C-57D travels to Altair IV to rescue an expedition that has been missing for twenty years. As they approach the planet, Morbius, one of the few survivors, warns them: the planet holds an unsuspected deadly threat… American film from 1956, directed by Fred M. Wilcox, starring Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen. Nominated for Best Special Effects at the 1957 Oscars. “A fascinating collection of paradoxes: a kitschy B-movie, an almost Nietzschean reflection on the will to power, an exciting transposition of Shakespeare’s "The Tempest" in a (splendid) surreal setting, a showcase for avant-garde electronic music (by the Barrons, synth pioneers), and incidentally the matrix for Star Trek.” (Les Inrockuptibles) “If there had been no Forbidden Planet, there might not have been a 2001 or Star Wars or Close Encounters. It’s gratifying to see that the film that helped make them possible still holds its own with the best of them.” (Criterion)