![]() When the king falls for Frenchy, Doris orders their frog servant, Bust Rod, to lock her up. After arriving in the Sixth Dimension, she is captured by the perpetually topless Princess, who brings Frenchy to the rulers of the Sixth Dimension, the midget King Fausto and his queen, Doris. On their way to school, Frenchy Hercules and her brother Flash have a conversation with Squeezit Henderson, who tells them that, while being violently beaten by his mother, he has a vision of his transgender sister René, who had fallen into the Sixth Dimension through the door in the Hercules' basement.įrenchy returns home to confide in her mother, and decides to take just a "little peek" behind the forbidden door in the basement. After retrieving the heroin, he sells the house to the Hercules family. While stashing heroin in the basement, he stumbles upon a mysterious door and enters it, falling into the Sixth Dimension, from which he promptly escapes. Jones (local pimp, narcotics peddler, and slumlord) enters a vacant house that he owns. The film begins on "Friday, April 17" at 4 p.m. Elfman has also licensed Forbidden Zone as an intellectual property for manufacturers to produce collectibles based on the film's characters. ![]() As of 2019, the sequel is still in the stages of development but regularly updated and discussed by Elfman. But I'm still glad I did it (although I'd change a few things if I had a time machine, of course)." Ī prospective sequel, entitled Forbidden Zone 2: The Forbidden Galaxy, has long been in development by Elfman, who launched a successful crowdfunding campaign in 2014 to raise an initial sum. Financially it bankrupted me and we lost our house. Said Elfman, "Doing anything original is taking a chance. In 2004, the film was digitally restored and released on DVD, and in 2008, the film was colorized. Amid negative reactions to content in the film that had been perceived as being offensive, Forbidden Zone was screened as a midnight movie, where it was met with positive notices, and developed a large and eventually worldwide cult following. The film was made as an attempt to capture the essence of The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo's live performances in a cinematic sense, and also as a means for both director Elfman to retire from music to work on film projects, and to serve as a transition between the group's former cabaret style and a new wave-based style. The only paid actor was Phil Gordon, who played Flash all the other SAG actors put their money back into the show. ![]() Villechaize kicked his cheque back into production and even painted sets on weekends. The composing debut of Danny Elfman, it stars Hervé Villechaize, Susan Tyrrell and members of the Mystic Knights, with appearances by Warhol superstar Viva, Joe Spinell and The Kipper Kids. Originally shot on black-and-white film, Forbidden Zone is based upon the stage performances of the Los Angeles theater troupe The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, of which Elfman, Bright and many of the cast and crew were a part, and revolves around an alternate universe accessed through a door in the house of the Hercules family. Shot in 19, the film premiered in 1980 and was distributed in 1982. Forbidden Zone is an American absurdist musical fantasy comedy film produced and directed by independent filmmaker Richard Elfman, and co-written by Elfman and Matthew Bright. ![]()
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