forbidden planet

[TheDonkey117]

HEY! after listening to these special effects, I recommend searching " Sounds of jupiter" the similarity is spooky.

[fuelfreak108]

240p... We meet again.

[MrFattyfatfatboy]

monsters from the ID ! ieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[MrSchultzstaffel]

This really does have to be one of the greatest science fiction movies in history. One of the only movies where the special effects hold up even today because of the artistic quality that was invested at the time. A gripping story with interesting characters and a truely alien atmosphere combined to produce a classic among classics! Who would have guessed that Hollywood reached it's zenith way back then? The slow, down-ward slide into nonsense and stupidity since then has hardly stopped...

[doom705]

bad quality

[DinoAgent69]

One of the most atmospheric films of all time.

[MrSunlander]

I hear something, like cool, electronic music! Louis and Bebe rock!

[SpaceOdyssey56]

A little note about the soundtrack:

The "electronic tonalities" produced by Doug and Bebe Barron were created using circuits that they designed. In creating the sounds, they could not actually hear what they were producing; the tonalities were transferred directly to tape, and could only be heard on playback! The recording itself IS the performance.

[MrAdvancedAtheist]

Do you get the impression that the Krell wanted to invent something like the Central Power Battery of Oa? That would have made all the Krell like the Green Lanterns.

[youthexplosion1210]

a bit of wee just came out

[niflap]

3:29) Osha would have had a fit about railing heights! lol

[niflap]

2:47)Like an infinity mirror effect. I do a facsilmile of it by aiming my Life Can @ the life cam's image, & call it a "Chinascope".

[DeSoccerRefMan]

You younger fellas sure missed some great shows

[acecreativitycoach]

Went to see a restored print of this film the other night at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. If you are near Hollywood, drop by the theater's foyer - they have a display of artifacts from the film (including Robby), as well as some of the Barron's circuit boards and recorders. Very cool stuff! Open to the public (free) on Saturdays and Sundays from noon to 6 p.m. until August 7th. 1313 N. Vine St.

[JetMechMA]

The width of the complex is actually 40 miles. Then 78 hundred levels just like that one which is 14.77 miles deep. An underground society. Back then they bragged about having a computer big enough to fill a room, which is ironic since that is the opposite trait you want in a computing machine. You want your computer to be more like Robby than like the Krell labs.

[maureenOWW]

That thing would have about the same heat output as an average nVidia GPU.

[rasarx1]

"the grand daddy of them all!"

[Puzzoozoo]

At the 2.25 mark, something along these lines could be in our Moon.

[maureenOWW]

@Puzzoozoo It could also be under your fridge, but neither is particularly likely.

[Puzzoozoo]

@maureenOWW Well the Moon's stucture is differnt to what is under my fridge. To bad that probe they deliberatedly crashed into the Moon produced a differnt result then they expected.

[casperorchids]

parts of the soundtrack sound just like the sounds of saturns rings released less than 10 years ago but how?

[JetMechMA]

This was pure genius. The Barrons really had the feel of the scene. They BECAME the scene. The music was easily 33% of this movie. The Actors. The cinematography. The music.

[maureenOWW]

@JetMechMA More like 34.832472 %. I used a Krell device to work it out. AND NOW MY BWAIN HURTS.

[JetMechMA]

@maureenOWW I'm sure you're right then. ;)

[SpatialAnomoly]

Twenty miles --- Twenty miles 78 hundred levels ? massive power to us tonight

[SpatialAnomoly]

Will diamonds or sapphires do ..... mazin

[harkrum]

Cookie has the right idea..altho, 60 Gallons is a bit much...

[xAstronomy]

For me this was scifi!

[fyrcrack]

This movie absolutely scared the shit out of me as a young child.......

[laylanspacedog]

i'm sure they was going to remake this? why????? they would only hash it besides the effects pass even for now in the photo realistic cgi age. The acting is actually rather good and the script is ahead of its time and rather underestimated i think.

i think the older effects and music add to the character of the film and what a character it is. Do not fix what is not broken just admire it like a classic sports car that wont be made or see it like again.

[CofCGuy]

55 years later this film remains in a class of it's own.

[KG84C]

Humans got a flying saucer, abduct the ID and anal probe it !!!

[supermandisco]

Walter Pidgeon reminds me of James Mason's Capt. Nemo.

[viajeacido666]

Sounds at 4:00 are awesome! Nowadays is so difficult (almost impossible) to emulate sounds like these, but Barron's "invented" them 53 years ago. genius.

[harkrum]

Twenty Miles...Twenty Miles...Imagine the size of it all....

[harkrum]

Actually, for years, this was voted the Best Sci-Fi movie of all time....and I agree...

[kohstamojahn]

the Krell "machine" was an absolutely fantastic concept. The visuals are incredible.

[JetMechMA]

In this 1956 movie, I see flat screen video monitors, motion activated lighting there on the catwalk at the Krell laboratories and used by Altaira. Directed energy weapons and matter transfer....the ID monster. The Krell powerplant is self maintaining and autonomously upgrades itself, as Morbius says. We the audience get to see directly into the atomic powerplant. The screen writers imbued us with the feeling that we were getting an experience that the characters didn't. Genius.

[jleoblues]

R.I.P.. Leslie Nilesen This is how I will remember you.

[raigekiman]

2:28 i like that camera angel kinda reminds me the psone game final fantasy 7

[Maustrum]

LESLIE NIELSEN -BEST damn straight man comic actor there every was. The animation for this movie was done by Disney artist, its in the credits.

[JetMechMA]

@Maustrum: The animation for this movie was done by Disney artist, its in the credits.

JM: Fascinating. Never noticed that. The whole thing is pure genius from start to finish. Without a doubt, the best sci-fi movie ever. The scenes in the Krell underground alone make it the best. Then the scenes of their laser blasts disappearing down the arroyo at great distance. Breathtaking. Morbius' house. I used to build models of it and dreamed of living in one in the Southwest somewhere.

[DisposedVillain]

RIP Leslie Nielsen

[edgexxi]

That scene w/ the Krell machine is AWESOME!

[WimGrundy]

OUT-FLOYDS PINK FLOYD!

[superwakoo]

Absolutely love the sound affects. It would be great for Halloween.

[chocoholicmeggy]

I got the original 78rpm tothis movie...kick ass music

[larrysgirlfriend]

Is it the one on the MGM label (yellow) arranged and conducted by David Rose?? It says "inspired by the film Forbidden Planet"??

[chocoholicmeggy]

@larrysgirlfriend yes, that's the one. have you got it too?

[LennySoldier]

From 2:04 onwards is a fantastic journey through the machine planet.

If they remade this movie they'd probabley ruin it with gun fights ect.

Brill movie, Thanks.

[vonmazur1]

Where can we find the orchestral theme that was written for this but not used in the Movie??

Dale

[ysbaddaden2003]

My favorite music.

[125RTY]

early electronic music but very effective for this film.

[yutubecop]

how to i post a video response in this new format?

[dragonfoe]

My physical Science teacher in high school showed us clips from this movie in class to show the meaning of the word infinity.

[Anonymous01959]

What do you mean by "NEW HUMAN" ?

[jhol1177]

Long before the Death Star, this live aboard POWER PLANET was the first, the original concept of a living planet. But, nowhere has any secular writer or world event publisher ever demonstrated a NEW HUMAN the way that the Bible does.

[ysbaddaden2003]

@jhol1177

Why was this hidden, the Death Star is like a rip-off of Altair-4

And before that Flash Gordon's Mongo?

[razorel]

James Cameron is gonna make a remake of this movie.........(tell me what you think about this by giving a thumb up or down )

[iamzbacku]

@razorel James Cameron will only make some kind of liberal, tree hugger version that will depict mankind as some evil that needs to be eliminated.

[McLarenMercedes]

@iamzbacku

He is conservative himself and loves guns. But like so many others "salesmen" he knows how to appeal to the lowest common denominator with his visually impressive movies with two dimensional characters.

[MrSuedehead72]

ovniesque!!!!!, génial, dément, la musique( louis barron) absolument dément!!!!, la premiere fois que j' ai vu ce "chef d' oeuvre" ce fut pour moi un choc hallucinant!!!! a voir, a envoyer dans l' espace!!!!!! le trip absolu!!!! un classique tout simplement!!! robby the robot for ever!!!!!

[artexetra]

This is a sweet clip from the film that really demonstates Louis and Bebe Barron's genius. Wish the video quality were better...

[hoesey]

Flat out the best science fiction movie ever made. Period.

[Aueneye]

The finest exemplar of 50's sci-fi. A timeless classic.

[singinjohnny]

@hoesey I thought I was the only one who felt this way! I saw this with my father and brother at a drive-in movie in the summer of 1956 or 57. I was either 6 or 7 at the time and the visual scope of the film together with the absolutely incredible sounds was quite overwhelming to me. It left an indelible impression on me that never went away. No other science fiction film, no matter how technologically advanced the special effects were, affected me the way this film did and still does!

[mikser]

@singinjohnny I know exactly what you mean. As a young lad I saw Forbidden Planet for the first time in the late 70's. I was mesmerized. To this day I still feel some of that awe and have watched it several times since then. There was a great sense that anything was possible with many of these 50's classics. Science fiction in its purest form.

[JetMechMA]

@singinjohnny: It left an indelible impression on me that never went away.

JM: Ditto. Today's movies are almost 100% WAY overdone with CGI. Almost unwatchable. And way too damn loud. I go to about one movie every two years or so. The rest don't interest me.

[jamezxh]

@hoesey Indeed the story is flawless .. Sometimes i wish they would do a reboot of it ... They would just fuck it though..

[yermyahu]

When I first heard the soundtrack of this movie - I thought the music was done on the Columbia-Princeton RCA Mark II, but when I learned that it was completely done with table-top electronics by a married couple it amazed me even more.

[mefreakshow]

Sometimes it's best if movies are left alone. Everything, especially Tom Cruise, seem to touch as a remake turns to shitturdcrapremakingbullshit.

[Puzzoozoo]

Its going to be remade, hope the modern version wow's a jaded 21st centruy audience as much as the original wow'ed the late 1950's audience.

[webby686]

it won't. they'll overload it with CGI monsters and shit.

[Puzzoozoo]

Maybe, maybe not, we will have to wait and see what the studio and the production team come up with.

[Navelfluffman]

Heh... I remember this one. It was shown on TV when I was 16. I didn't except much then, but I recorded it on VHS tape to watch it later.

I was extremely surprised by both the quality of the special effects and the story itself... Absolutely great stuff.

[sarahnewt]

does anyone have the whole movie?

[Scorpius1969]

It is easily available in standard dvd format from Amazon or ebay...Amazon says it will be coming to blu ray sometime so everyone sign up to be notified for when it does if you have a Playstation 3 or stand alone blu ray player.

[china1324]

one of the best specialeffects were unsurpassed at the time a classic movie thanks for the post

[EctoBuzz]

Considering the time period, the FX in this movie were Flabbergasting! The music was totally out of this world and the story was absolutely captivating. A Si-Fi masterpiece!

[mefreakshow]

Great Sci-Fi classic! I hope Tom Cruise doesn't remake this one and FUCK IT UP like WAR of THE WORLDS. Haven't seen THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, but something tells me that it will be a bad remake as well. Love the electronic music in this movie along with the scary sounding Theremin.

[detrolleur]

Oh wow, now that was a great sc-fi movie. Awsome music, so "out of the time", even today, so in 1956, wow ! I'd love toget it on DVD. And Robby, the best robot ever !

[HomoAngelus]

A classic.Amazing movie.They dont make them like they used to.

[foff4strings]

I'm trying to imagine this film with a typical(melo)'dramatic', run-of-the-mill soundtrack similar to those scored for other films of this period and you just know all these scenes would be ruined! Da-Da-Dah! Dun-Dun-Dun! g-r-a-d-u-a-l-l-y g-e-t-t-i-n-g L-O-U-D-E-R!

[zmantheone]

The frist truly great Scifi movie one of only three that I can think of. I remember some friends of my wastching it for the frist time and they thought it was a Star Trek rip-off. I corrected them on that- right away.

[foff4strings]

Have you noticed that Star Trek also named a ship Bellerophon? I wonder if that was a nod to this film...

[Gharzul]

It is from greek mythology.

[SlyGuy19831111]

I love this movie. It used to creep me the hell out when I was four LOL!!!!

[srabin1]

I remember when the ID monster first revealed itself in the force field that I was SO-O-O scared that I hid under the seat in the movie theater...I was 6 years old and have been haunted by that scene forever!

[dmarries1]

I have an autograph copy of the sound track on LP he & his wife did all the music and made there own instraments and effects.a huge contribution..Krell Music YEAH BEBE! thank you louis. pioneers of electronic music

[crimsonlung]

lmao, your wrong. I am the pioneer of electronic music, gtfo

[tschafer204]

Hang on to that! That would be something worth having. Believe me, I want it.

[tfcrew]

The Barron sound track was non-union and therefore not considered for the Academy Awards in music or effects....a shame

[Mereope]

The first time I saw this I was 13 and had to hold on to the bunny ears on our TV to get a decent picture. Mom thought I was crazy; I thought what a great freaking movie. Finally bought the DVD and it's still wonderful. Yeah the music's wonderful.

[joelang1699]

This film used to scare the hell out of me when I was younger, and still does to some extent, especially that invisble monster at the force fields with the electronic music...oofff

[mrshenley1980]

YES very proud, but wonderd why he shrouded his past in darkness.

his uncle john woods was an inventor, he died of blood clot on lung, typical family ending.thanks for reply

[mrshenley1980]

right, he wasnt born in canada, he came from lincolshire boston, left england 1921, always denied it but his mum is mary woods, my great auntie, im paul woods, 4th cousin!

[nemo1620]

I can't imagine "Forbidden Planet" without his "music". It was as much a part of the film's special effects as anything visual. No wonder you're proud of your relation to him.

[the60sKid]

RIP Bebe Barron (16 June 1925, 20 April 2008. you and Louis were trailblazers in electronic music.

[jaybird321]

Its a 50s movie but it is also a classic which i keep enjoying.

[Thedoctor19000]

Leslie Nielson!

[stekwein]

For those reading comments, Bebe passed away a few days ago. Obituaries found in LA Times today April 27. You will want to read it.

We will miss her greatly.

[Jeedian]

The music was one of the best characters itself in this movie. Great classic. They are making a remake of this movie last I heard.

[bregman1155]

It's hard to imagine any other music score than that of Louis and Bebe Barron (note how it functions not only as "music" but as sound effects as well), but David Rose was originally meant to score the film. He wrote some very effective music for "Bonanza" and other series but...I can't imagine ANY conventional music score fitting this film!

[vasmos3]

the producers were thinking of harry partch to score the film and the barrons were supposed to make a score of 20 mins.But they changed their minds and barrons scored the whole film.the first movie that was dominated by purely electronic music.

[sirpico123]

its a special instrument, name escapes me but beach boys used it on good vibrations

[randywilharm]

You might be thinking of the THERAMIN.

It was invented by a russian scientist

way back-- maybe the 1920's.

[sirpico123]

thats the one!

[mcklain]

Theremin :)

[hafsteinn]

the did the sound by creating electronic circuits that only make on specific sound and then die out, and then time warped most of them with a tape machine. No theremins were used.

[therebis]

Super science! Reminds me of John W. Campbell's "The Dark Star Passes" and the old E.E. "Doc" Smith "Skylark" series.

[majormannfred]

This was one of my first dvd's I bought..even after some 50 years it still rocks. "The blasted thing is invisible!".

[noo00ooob]

But it's not as disgusting as Alien so it's still the best sci-fi movie overall.

[RedwoodTheElf]

And the alien special effects were done by the Walt Disney company.

[jaybird321]

Best science fiction horror movie until Alien was released.

[Davaron2012]

One of the Best Movies ever made!!

like the movie was ahead of its time it was so good!!

The Sound Effects still go down my Spine,

[oddfox17]

I consider this one of the best movies ever made!

[nagarjuna1953]

I agree, oddfox. It's certainly one of my favorite movies ever. I think it was a remarkably imaginative sci-fi film for its time and still holds up well against the best sci-fi films of today.

[TomMinderson]

1957? The movie or the redub? FP was before 1957.

[noo00ooob]

Yeah I thought it was made in 1956

[Torlan47]

Great movie.

[yvesgomez]

masterpiece, graphics, music and scenario

[Haden1113]

Never seen it but could be cool. Great job peaking our interest.

[karloff4]

I love this movie!

[Searobot]

Great classic!

[livepakat]

Just think that the Barrons' had to make the circuits for each sound in the movie, then they recorded it with one of the first tape recorders ever! Imagine trying to multitrack with old reel to reels!

[zaohragein]

man i saw this only a couple of months ago impressive stuff , love the classic Sci-Fi - and that shot where they are walking acrss the bridge in the ventilator shaft.

[RamzGT]

Still gives me goosebumps! LOL my grandfather still has this movie on a RECORD disk! We ported it to DVD some time ago...

[prayfertrey]

My favorite is the "quantum mechanic". It's so aimed at 1950's jocks. Killer set design, though, and effects.

[scotpens]

Where is there a reference to quantum mechanics in this film? The original opening narration mentioned "quanto-gravitetic hyperdrive," but it was shortened to "hyperdrive" in the final cut.

[prayfertrey]

The engineer, who I think is the one who went on to be The Bionic Man's boss, is introduced as a "quantum mechanic".

[videologex]

a genuine classic

[SUPERBURRITO]

One of the greatest science fiction movies ever made. A true classic. Great post!

[xnopak]

One of the best movies!

I discovered it when I was 12 in the 1990s.

It is much better than nowadays CGI-movies like Spiderman, they are to overload with effects.

Walter Pidgeon´s Prospero(Morbius) is one of the best.

[xaxaxa22]

Great !!! Nice cut.

Discovered this movie at the end of sixties, on french tv, I was 6...

I brought my two daughters to see it on cinema last october, they did adore !

AO

Has Shakespeare a melody in his head when composing the tempest ?