The Hercules family buy a Venice Beach (California) house that contains a door leading to the Sixth Dimension via a large set of intestines. The daughter, Frenchy Hercules (Marie-Pascale Elfman) trips on a rollerskate one day and tumbles through the door (and the intestine) and ends up trapped in the Sixth Dimension.
Midget King Fausto (Hervé Villechaize from Fantasy Island) falls in love with her, which angers Queen Doris (former Warhol ingénue Susan Tyrrell), who has her frog servant (Jan Stuart Schwartz) lock Frenchy up.
Their daughter is a wonky-breasted Princess (Gisele Lindley) who is constantly topless for no apparent reason (pictured at left).
Now the Hercules family and their friend Squeezit Henderson (Oingo Boingo bassist Matthew Bright) must go to the Sixth dimension to rescue her. That plot device is superfluous, though, and merely an excuse for the music and visuals – part animation, part live-action – which defy description but comprise equal parts insanity and awesomeness.
The acting is terrible, the sets are made of cardboard and paper, and the jokes are racist, sexist and childish. And it’s in black & white. But Danny Elfman (Oingo Boingo) provided the soundtrack. He also plays Satan. His brother, Richard, directed.
Pa Hercules (Huckleberry P Jones)
Gene Cunningham Susan B ‘Frenchy’ Hercules
Marie-Pascale Elfman Ma Hercules
Virginia Rose Flash Hercules
Phil Gordon Gramps Hercules
Hyman Diamond Bust Rod, the Servant Frog
Jan Stuart Schwartz King Fausto of the Sixth Dimension
Hervé Villechaize Queen Doris of the Sixth Dimension/Ruth Henderson
Susan Tyrrell Princess
Gisele Lindley Squeezit Henderson/Renee Henderson
Matthew Bright Kipper Kids
Brian Routh
Martin von Haselberg Human Chandelier/Miss Feldman
Kedric Wolfe Gunfighting Student
Sugar Bear The Pope
Nicholas James Old Yiddish Man
Herman Bernstein Satan
Danny Elfman
Director Richard Elfman
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Kipper Kids
