bizzare in every sence, lovely
Forbidden Zone (1980)
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Reviews Counted:6
Fresh:5
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.3/10
Runtime: 75 mins
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Synopsis: An all-time classic of the underground cinema, featuring original music by Oscar-nominated composer Danny Elfman (PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE, BATMAN), FORBIDDEN ZONE must be seen to be believed. There... An all-time classic of the underground cinema, featuring original music by Oscar-nominated composer Danny Elfman (PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE, BATMAN), FORBIDDEN ZONE must be seen to be believed. There is a mysterious but forbidden door in the basement of the Hercules family's new house in Venice, California; it doesn't take long for daughter Frenchy, returning home from her bizarro school that features a machine gun-toting teacher and a chicken boy, to succumb to temptation and open it. Becoming trapped in the Sixth Dimension, which is ruled by randy midget King Fausto who, as luck would have it, is looking for a new concubine, Frenchy catches the king's eye. Unfortunately she also incurs the jealous Queen Doris's wrath, and is imprisoned along with the ex-queen, who plots Doris's demise. While Frenchy's brother Flash and her Gramps endeavor to save her, a dancing frog, robot boxers, Oingo-Boingo, and Danny Elfman as Satan, all make their appearances in the Forbidden Zone. [More]
Starring: Herve Villechaize, Danny Elfman, Susan Tyrrell
Starring: Herve Villechaize, Danny Elfman, Susan Tyrrell
Director: Richard Elfman
Director: Richard Elfman
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Reviews for Forbidden Zone
Patently the only film of its kind that could give a home to its nutso musical numbers
If awards were given for sheer insane spectacle, this avant garde 1980 cult flick would certainly qualify as among the most gold-bedecked movies of the past quarter century.
As wild a concoction of deliberately politically incorrect outrageousness as can be imagined – a love-it-or-hate-it proposition if ever there was one.
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