Description: Bristol's biggest repertory film festival is dedicated to classic horror, action and sci-fi movies and the people that made them.
This year, Forbidden Worlds Film Festival will also be honouring the career of veteran screenwriter, cinematographer and director Peter Hyams by naming him the FORBIDDEN WORLDS LEGEND and screening three of his most iconic films – Capricorn One (1977), Outland (1981) and Timecop (1994) – that demonstrate his genre-film credentials across the decades.
As part of this year’s line-up, Forbidden Worlds is unleashing cinema’s KILLER QUEENS with screenings of B-movie classic Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958); Kathryn Bigelow’s cult thriller Blue Steel (1990), featuring festival favourite Jamie Lee Curtis as a rookie cop targeted by an obsessed witness; Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (1972), starring Meiko Kaji in one of her most iconic roles; Geena Davis as an assassin with amnesia in The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996); blaxploitation royalty Pam Grier in Foxy B
Whether journeying inside the human body or visiting a telepathic planet in a faraway galaxy, audiences will also be treated to some classic and cult sci-fi adventures with INNER WORLDS & OUTER SPACES , which will honour the 40th anniversary of sci-fi classic The Last Starfighter (1984), and include a very rare big-screen outing for the cult Soviet-era black comedy Kin-dza-dza! (1986), alongside Roland Emmerich’s groundbreaking 1994 actioner Stargate , which spawned a universe of TV series and celebrates it