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21 March 1982 (USA)
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A chaotic musical fantasy.
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A mysterious door in the basement of the Hercules house leads to the Sixth Dimension by way of a gigantic set of intestine...
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1 nomination
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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)
(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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A LYSERGIC LIVE-ACTION MAX FLEISCHER CARTOON...WITH OINGO BOINGO!!!
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(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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Susan Tyrell was convinced by Richard Elfman to appear in the film, and in turn brought in Herve Villechaize. Villechaize and Tyrell had been a real-life couple as well.
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Renee Henderson:
The queen is a very important person. She hurts me a lot, but I respect her.
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Spoofs Wonder Bar (1934)
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Bim Bam Boom
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I first discovered this one during my early mania for the band Oingo Boingo back in the early 1980's. I was expecting anything other than what I got: a live-action Max Fleischer cartoon brimming with low-budget insanity! FORBIDDEN ZONE is balls-out strange, and a hell of a lot of fun for those with a taste for the odd. Truly unique in every way, it is sad to see that more films like this will probably never be made again in this era of big-budget drivel and rampaging political correctness.
FORBIDDEN ZONE follows the adventures of the almost indescribably weird Hercules family who have recently moved into a house whose basement contains the doorway to the 6th dimension. When their bathrobe-clad daughter Susan (who has been studying abroad in France, returning home with an outrageous French accent and now goes by the totally original nickname of "Frenchy") falls into the 6th dimension, all manner of looniness ensues. A tuxedoed frog-man, jockstrap wearing goons, animation that looks like it was done by an acidhead, a wonderful soundtrack that blends oddball rock and big band classics, the worst blackface makeup in film history, Squeezit "Chicken-boy" Henderson and his "sister" Renee, the funniest elementary school sequence in memory, Herve Villechaize as King Fausto, the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo and Danny Elfman as the devil himself...All this and more (!!!) in a ninety minute tour de force of unbridled imagination. HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION!