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    Forbidden Zone (1982)

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    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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