Made almost 70 years ago and still one of the most mindblowing things you’ll see in a movie!

Just a small technical point - I wanted to acknowledge a bit of compositional genius. As the camera moves into position for what obviously is the matte insert of the 3 humans walking out of the door onto the bridge. Take note about what drew your eye THERE. That little blinking light over the door! If that hadn't drawn your eye, you would still be focusing on the details of the model work and might not have shifted your perceptions to the true scale the movie is trying to paint for your minds eye. But that little blinking light over the door is like - "Look HERE!" And you do, and THEN your mind gets BLOWN because your perspective shifts and you realize just how massive that area of the machine is! One little blinking light on a matte painting. Just a bit of simple genius. Hat tip to whoever thought of that.

Wow. For a movie made 60 years ago, the effects in this scene are still pretty impressive. Hats off to the talented special effects artists who worked on this classic.

Hats off to Bebe and Louis Barron for the 100% electronic score.

I love the sound of this thing. The throbbing electricity just barely being contained. A monster waiting to get out.

Luxury casting with one time, big time leading man Walter Pidgeon as Morbius. His then waning career made it possible to get him. He brings a tremendous sense of authority to his role which benefits the film immesureably.

William Shakespeare meets Sigmund Freud. Forbidden Planet was so far ahead of it's time. A masterpiece.

That "minor alteration throughout its fabric" that Dr. Morbius spoke of, was probably the machine tuning itself to HIS mind to respond better. He didn't know that.

This scene blew my mind when I was a young child years ago. It still does today.

65 year-old effects and still impressive.

The scene when they look down the shaft still chills me. I am terrified of heights.

This movie was ahead of its time. I watched it as a kid in the 1980s and I thought it was a modern movie.

I still think this is the best science fiction movie ever made. Bar none.

George Lucas was so impressed by this masterpiece, the scene in the Death Star when Obi Wan de-activates the tractor beam was inspired by this scene.

The special effects are still truly astonishing today. And this was 1956.

One thing that makes this gem stand out is the extreme quality of all it's facets. The effects were great for its decade and still hold up well enough. The dialog and acting were great, as was the acting. The story was deep and multilayered. Just superlative across the board!

I once saw a piece of the "machine" that has survived that belongs to a collector. I believe some Disney animators also worked on the look of the Krell machine to bring it to life. I still own a large model of the flying saucer that is shown in the movie that I bought in the early 70's and has never been assembled. The saucer is about 20" across.

It`s really incredible that this movie was produced in 1956 when I was born. This special effect is still eye-opening for me in 2018. It`s a great masterpiece.

I met Warren Stevens at a Ralphs Supermarket one Sunday morning a few years back. He looked great for his age. I mentioned Forbidden Planet, he told me it was his memorable movie experience. Walter Pigeon taught him a lot.

The effects in this movie blow me away. They're done in a way that has kept them from becoming laughably bad as more than 50 years have passed. I hate to be a movie snob, but this one was truly a trailblazer in effects, story, genre, Leslie Nielson...everything.

the Krell discovered non-instrumentality, the ability to create matter by thought alone. As long as power constantly flowed to a creation, it lived. The ID monster was the same. The Krell machine kept it alive while it was under attack. The ID monster was also given life by Morbius' mind. He inadvertently created it and the Krell machine kept it going. .

Still the best sci fi film ever imo. It was the first to take the genre seriously. Special effects look good even today; similar in that regard to Kubrick's 2001, timeless. The eerie soundtrack is the gold standard, set the tone, and has never been surpassed...still gives me goosebumps when I listen.

Note: MGM's Forbidden Planet is the very first *BIG* budget serious science fiction production (not a monster movie) at USD $1,968,000 in 1956 dollars or USD $20,918,000 in 2022 dollars!!!

My favorite scene as well, and yes, I would have been afraid to look down too!

This is still the best sf film ever made. It shows what sf is really about and what can be achieved if intelligence is let in the door.

I watched this again about a month ago, still holds up really well. The alien race and technology is still a scifi movie wonder.

Tremendous art direction, holds up well 70 years later

I really love the line, _”...are you afraid?”_ Morbius says to them.

Walter Pidgeon, such a classy actor 😁

so glad that they never re-made this...one of my all-time favorite movie's.

There's something uniquely awe-inspiring about a massive, planet-spanning machine with seemingly alien purpose that a simple man could never hope to understand.

I always loved how just with simple words and numbers they managed to create in our imaginations such a humungous, colossal, awe inspiring machine without having to actually 'build' it or really show it. Watching these clips makes me want to go and buy and watch again the whole movie

It's still a well crafted film with memorable visuals and music/sound. Can you imagine what it must have been like to see in the cinema in the 1950's!!

The genius of Louis an Bebe Barron. Not only was the visual effects mind blowing. Ahh, but the sound effects !!! Mind blowing !!! - If you notice in the beginning of the movie they write "Tonalities by Louis and Bebe Barron". They could not write anything else because they were not in the actors guild. Louis and Bebe Barron were Pink-Floyd before Pink-Floyd. They actually made instruments to make their sounds

I loved this movie when I first watched it as a kid in the 80s. Even though it was already 30+ years old by then, it still held up well. The sheer scale and advancement of the technology depicted just blew my mind.

I love how Morbius totally dodges the question: "What it's all for?" Such a politician, that character.

First saw this movie in the mid 70s as a young boy and it made a big impression on me-the plot,the sets,animation and part. the monster itself(only realized in recent years it was a creation of Morbious nightmares,hence the term "monsters from the id")it is one of my favorite movies and now appreciate how much work went into creating it Auckland New Zealand 2021

Don't be alarmed, gentlemen. Go ahead and look over the side. You'll fall three thousand feet if you fall over the side, but I won't tell you that until after you've looked over the side because I am such a tease.

J. Michael Straczynski drew direct inspiration from Forbidden Planet for his own science fiction epic television series, Babylon V. Gene Roddenberry also was inspired by FP to create the original Star Trek. Great movie in its own right that provided the groundwork for future shows.

Undoubtedly the inspiration for The Great Machine in Babylon 5

your right, my favorite scene also.......visual and sound effects are totally awesome.......best sci-fi movie ever............

Born in 1950, I read everything, & tried to see any movies; this is a tremendous movie. Always .

That non-answer to "But what is it for?" is our first solid indication that not all is well in paradise...

I saw this movie in the 1970s and thought it was incredible. Even in 2020 it still looks fantastic.

For the record, this is the machine on STANDBY Mode. I can't imagine what it must have been like the night it was active.

"But what is it for?" Such a critical and ominous question. I have this on DVD, an amazing movie. Hinting at what might be possible and that we cannot ignore our own nature.

The most vivid memory I have of my childhood is watching this on the TV when I was around 4 years old. I have older memories but they are more vague - just flashes of images and emotions - but I can still remember every scene of this movie from the first time I watched it 44 years ago like it was yesterday. This scene in particular always stood out for me.

I love this scene. It looks like a m. c. Escher painting. Warps the mind.

I am in utter AWE at the CENTRAL PLOT IDEA behind the extinction of the Krell. They were technically advanced but they had forgotten their "fang and claw" beginnings.The Krell probably evolved just like us; creatures who survived by killing other animals (and often killing each other). All life on Earth kills to survive! (Great design, huh? Barf!). As soon as their 'reptile brains' were unleashed, the horrible instincts in their subconscious minds came out. The writer said it so well via Dr. Morbius: "My poor Krell! After millions of years of shining evolution, they could hardly have understood what was killing them". Dr. Morbius refused to accept that HE was a murderer... until the Commander explained it to him and his daughter, Altaira agreed! I really don't know ANY sci-fi movie that has a better 'core idea' than that! I loved the movie as a child and I still do love it. I would love to see a modern remake of this movie, not just because of better special effects and a cool robot. It's because this movie is even MORE RELEVANT TODAY! In the early 1900's the world's great physicists liked to meet and discuss cosmology. They all agreed that the universe is gigantic and probability says there are be billions of intelligent civilizations out there. So Enrico Fermi, a quantum physicist asked the group, "Where are they?" SETI has listened to the skies for three decades with giant radio telescopes and heard NOTHING that sounds like, "Hi, Fred. A few of us are going bowling in the next galaxy. Wanna join us?" It's almost statistically IMPOSSIBLE that we're the only life that evolved intelligence. To quote from the movie CONTACT, "If it's just us... seems like an awful waste of space." We should be intercepting millions of ET broadcasts. Here'a one possible answer: When any civilization develops technology capable of killing off their species... they do. To paraphrase Jeff Goldblum:: Life... uhhh... finds a way.... to .... uhh... destroy itself. The Krell destroyed themselves because of CREATURES FROM THE ID! THEIR "ID MONSTERS". Sigmund Freud coined the word ID to describe the part of the subconscious mind associated with instinct, repressed desires, fantasies, and antisocial sexual or violent actions. I personally think we will become extinct, just like 99% of creatures that evolved on Earth. I think our own primitive human minds are just too prone to violence. I'm sorry to be such a downer, but I look around and I don't see us changing anytime soon. Maybe, in our own way... WE ARE THE KRELL. Anyway, please remake Forbidden Planet... while there's still time. What do you think about whether humanity will survive?

That scene could not possibly be bettered today.

"whats it all for" Morbius didn't know except for a vague reference to animal life energy registering with the Great Machine and a slight adjustment through it's structure 16 years ago." 9200 thermonuclear reactors in tandem! The harnessed power of an exploding Planetary system " I love this scene because it paints a picture of immense God like power at he fingertips of the Krell.

I love this scene and wish they had done some more with it. The set was so amazing. I know now that it's all mat painting and animation, but when I was a kid, I thought it was real! I always wondered about the low railings. But then, when you think about the Krell doorways, they probably were short, fat blob like creatures, so to them, the railings would have been just fine.

Disney Masterpiece All these scene's & animated sequences of Forbidden Planet, especially the attack of the Id Monster, were created by veteran animator Joshua Meador, who was loaned out to MGM by Walt Disney, a close look at the creature shows it to have a small goatee beard, suggesting its connection to Dr. Morbius, the only character with this physical feature. Unusually, the scene in which the Id Monster is finally revealed during its attack on the Earth ship was not created using traditional cel animation. Instead, Meador simply sketched each frame of the entire sequence in black pencil on animation stand translucent vellum paper; each page was then photographed in high contrast, so that only the major details remained visible. These images were then photographically reversed into negative and the resulting white line images were then tinted red, creating the effect of the Id Monster's body remaining largely invisible, with only its major outlines illuminated by the energy from the force-field and blaster beams.

Man, that stuff is Fifties America distilled to a potent liquid. Infinite, infinite, infinite power!

The first truly modern Sci/Fi movie involving the senses on a grand scale.

The Krell basically built a Borg Cube underground.

Every time I see this movie I get a look at some of the most brilliant writing in the history of science fiction.

Great movie! Probably the best sci-fi film of the 50s.

Always wondered why the Krell had such big doorways but rode in a cramped little shuttle.

I would have seen this in the Bayview Theatre in Toronto in 1956 when I was 7. I remember to it to this day. I don’t think another movie effected me. It still has great imagery. I was totally blown away of the Krell city! Even at 7 I understood what it was all about!

This movie was SOOOOOO good

2:23 - reminds me of scenes from Tron. The part I personally still enjoyed the most however was a young Leslie Nielsen in a serious role. He was quite handsome back then. Rest in piece, great man!

I love this movie and for the time it came out the special effects are AWESOME!!

I was seven years old when my brother and I went to see the FORBIDDEN PLANET at the Wynnewood Theater in Oak Cliff. It was the kid's matinee on Saturday afternoon. This scene has stuck in my mind all these years. It was a fantastic movie and way ahead of it's time.

can you imagine how this must have blown the minds of theater-goers in 1956?? they must have talked about this movie for months.

This movie is truly one of the pioneers of sci fi blockbusters, especially coming out of the time it came out of......

An amazing scene. I was born in '49 and when I saw them walking through the "Machine" I couldn't get over it. I'd never seen anything like it. It was my family's first trip to a Drive-In theater.

I remember the first time I saw this as a child and this scene really wowed me. And Leslie Nielsen is so young! He was 29 when this was filmed. Walter Pidgeon was 56 and Anne Francis was 25.

"Yes, a single machine, a cube twenty miles on each side. For two thousand centuries it has waited patiently here, tuning and lubricating itself, replacing worn parts. I have reason to believe sixteen years ago, a minor alteration was performed throughout the entire eight thousand cubic miles of its own fabric." The vast Krell machine, an interesting concept, a machine that can link with the mind, and manipulate matter and energy at the subatomic level to create anything you want just by thinking of it. To externalize and recreate inner thoughts physically, pure creation. In the far future, I do think this may be possible, but would there ever be a way of barring the subconscious mind from being able to access this tremendous power? Forbidden Planet is an absolute sci fi classic!

Surely the inspiration behind the Death Star interior

The amazing ventilation white noise has since been used as ambient SFX in dozens of video games, including HALF LIFE!

A. Arnold "Buddy" Gillespie supervised the impressive special visual effects and animation on this amazing sci-fi classic. He said he never worked harder in his life as he did on this one. He also supervised the visual effects on BEN-HUR (MGM, 1959).

Never ever remake this film.

Better effects than the recent Prometheus crapfest. One of the best films ever made

This still looks very impressive today. Brilliant film.

The shaft is a wonder of model making skill.

The beautiful Ann Francis doesn't get enough credit for this film.

Notice the motion-activated spotlight at ~ 0:57. Motion sensors were developed for the military in the 1940's, but weren't rolled-out to the public until the late 1970's...**WOW!!**

They got so much right in this movie. That is why it has stood the test of time.

One of the ideas for the re-make is that Altaira is not really human; she's a product of genetic engineering, as Morbius' wife died before they had a child. He created her as his successor, as she would be able to control the entire Krell machine with immensely more grace that he could. Meeting all those eligible men happened before she was about to become a goddess, and Morbius' subconscious could not stand the sacrilege.

Puts to shame other films that tried to pull off virtual environments, like the Star Wars prequels, which were over 40 years later. Just a superb film. Modern Sci-Fi owes a lot to this 50's classic.

This scene is simply spectacular even by today's standards, the movement of the camera when they show the levels of the complex from above is not typical of a 50's movie, this scene would not be out of place in a more modern movie such as "Dune" .

What an amazing movie. Saw it as boy and loved it. I love it even more today.

In my opinion this is one of the single greatest sci fi films ever made!!! Masterpiece!!! 😎😎😎

I love the knee-high guard rail next to a 3 thousand foot drop.

62 years old and way ahead of its time

Still one of my all time favorite movies! So incredibly well made, well acted, well shot, and I still remember watching it so much as a kid I used to fall asleep to the sounds of the "Great Machine"

1:00 I have a horrendous fear of heights. If I was in sucha place, I would probably be plastered down to the middle of the bridge, unable to move. 1:45 "Yes, I'm terrified!" I wouldn't even be able to look up!

Love this scene, love all of Forbidden Planet it was so far ahead of it's time, way before Star Trek or Dr Who or anything like that, amazing Robot, sets and affects. The story is based loosely on the Tempest by William Shakespear. The writers used his framework of words to come up with Altair IV and all it has too offer.

The view of the huge machine still gives me vertigo when I see it. Wonderfully done. Great job of matte painting. Best I've ever seen.

Almost 60 years old and still better than most of what Hollyweird grinds out.

Such great special effects for 1956. The plot of the movie has no comparison

The animation special effects was done by an artist on loan from Disney Studios. MGM's animators were all busy.

Still one of my favorite scifi movies and over 50 years old.

I will never forget the night I watched this movie, it left my mind completely lid-less.

This movie is almost 60 years old but it still holds up. Certainly it's one of the great Scifi movies of all time. I'd love to see a remake.

Zathras! Zathras! Never around when he's needed...

My absolute favorite movie of all time. Incredible ideas, great characters , beautiful special effects. This movie has it all.

I must have watched this movie dozens of times and never get tired of it. This was made the same year I was born and I still find the quality of the special effects amazing - no CGI then remember!

I suspect homage was paid to this by the Great Machine on Epsillion III in the series "Babylon 5".