Computing Forever Reviews: Forbidden Planet

This science-fiction film was decades ahead of its time but not just for the reasons most people may think, what truly made this science-fiction film groundbreaking is that it was one of the first works of science fiction to have a truly psychological edge, with dark themes that, in future films would evolve into the genre known as the psychological thriller. The reason for this would be because the Freudian concept of the Id, Ego and Super Ego that plays a major role in the theme of the story and The film even has some genuinely scary moments as it was truly fascinating how the characters are continually hunted by bloodthirsty invisible creatures born from the depths of the human subconscious known as “Monsters From The Id” and the final climax of when they’re chased by one of these invisible monsters is genuinely unsettling (almost Lovecraftian even) especially the part where The invisible Id creature, in a wild fit of bloodlust, starts to burn through the blast door in order to get Morbius. Scenes like that were definitely a foreshadowing of the sci-fi horror genre that was to come in the decades that followed and would definitely go on to influence filmmakers like John Carpenter and Ridley Scott in cinematically exploring the dread of cosmic horror.