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Overview
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Richard Elfman (story)
Richard Elfman (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
21 March 1982 (USA) more
Tagline:
A chaotic musical fantasy.
Plot:
A mysterious door in the basement of the Hercules house leads to the Sixth Dimension by way of a gigantic set of intestine... more | full synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
(10 articles)
Universal Music Publishing Group signs publishing deal with Danny Elfman
(From BusinessofCinema. 26 September 2009, 11:26 PM, PDT)
'Forbidden Zone' ... The Stage Musical?
(From Cinematical. 4 September 2009, 5:03 PM, PDT)
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The weirdest most nonsensical musical you'll ever see! more (84 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Hervé Villechaize | ... | King Fausto of the Sixth Dimension |
 | Susan Tyrrell | ... | Queen Doris of the Sixth Dimension / Ruth Henderson |
| Gisele Lindley | ... | The Princess |
| Jan Stuart Schwartz | ... | Bust Rod, the Servant Frog |
| Marie-Pascale Elfman | ... | Susan B. 'Frenchy' Hercules |
| Virginia Rose | ... | Ma Hercules |
| Gene Cunningham | ... | Huckleberry P. Jones / Pa Hercules (as Ugh-Fudge Bwana) |
| Phil Gordon | ... | Flash Hercules |
| Hyman Diamond | ... | Grampa Hercules |
| Matthew Bright | ... | Squeezit & René Henderson (as Toshiro Boloney) |
 | Danny Elfman | ... | Satan |
| Viva | ... | Ex-Queen |
| Joe Spinell | ... | Squeezit's Father |
| Brian Routh | ... | Harry Kipper (as The Kipper Kids) |
| Martin von Haselberg | ... | Harry Kipper (as The Kipper Kids) |
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73 min | USA:74 min
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Director Richard Elfman and star Marie-Pascale Elfman, who were married at the time, financed the movie by buying, renovating and selling houses. They ran out of money and the movie was rescued by a benefactor. more
Quotes:
Queen Doris: Why does it feel so good to be sooooo bad? more
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References Violent Is the Word for Curly (1938) more
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Queen's Revenge more
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"Forbidden Zone" is up there on the list of strangest films of all time. It's a hell of a lot of fun, even though it doesn't make much sense. The film was created by Matthew Bright and Richard Elfman from the 80's rock band Oingo Boingo. They also did the film's music. The story concerns a family who buys a house from a drug dealer. Little do they know that it has a door that leads to the sixth dimension. The film becomes a crazed B&W surreal musical of comical strangeness. Tattoo of "Fantasy Island" plays the king of the sixth dimension. There's a depraved queen, a giant frog, a topless princess, drag queens, gigantic dice props and other things that you have to see to believe. It's as if John Waters and Jodorowsky teamed up to film "the Wizard of Oz" in black and white. The funniest part of the film has to be the guys wearing jockstraps who make musical fart noises while boxing. This is definitely not your average musical!