March 18, 1945 june 16, 2012 was an american character actress. Originally shot on blackandwhite film, the story of forbidden zone involves an alternate universe accessed through a door in the house of the hercules family. Opening a strange door in her familys basement leads young frenchy hercules mariepascale elfman into the forbidden zone, a whackedout realm whose ruler, king fausto herve villechaize, wants to woo her. There is a lot that should be offensive about forbidden zone, but its unique mixture of the surreal, the juvenile, and the clever, makes it hard to actually be offended. Jun 22, 2012 forbidden zone 1980, directed by richard elfman, is what you might consider a prefab midnight movie. A sexy girl falls into an insane underworld filled with frog butlers, a topless princess and danny elfman playing the devil, in this cult classic. I was absolutely riveted for the entire running time. In richard elfmans forbidden zone, sexy frenchy falls into an insane. Perhaps the ultimate cult movie, richard elfmans dannys big brother forbidden zone 1980 is a clearcut, loveitorhateit proposition. The jealous queen doris takes frenchy prisoner, and it is up to the hercules family and friend squeezit henderson to rescue her. The forbidden zone ultimate edition consists of the film and bonus features on one region abccoded bd, and the film s soundtrack album running around 40 minutes on one cd. Conceived by the musical group oingo boingo, it has cult movie written all over it, almost as if it was created specifically for midnight screenings. Ho scritto qui alcuni consigli che spero aiutino soprattutto i neofiti a muovere i primi passi in varie tecniche decorative. Youll be surprised by the things that you will see.
Dare you enter the musical madhouse of forbidden zone. When frenchy slips through the door, king fausto falls in love with her. The film did a summer of midnight shows in 1982, caused a minor stir and poofit was gone. Trying to describe the story of forbidden zone may be one of the most challenging endeavors ive ever attempted. The bizarre and musical tale of a girl who travels to another dimension through the gateway found in her familys basement.
Im not entirely sure how popular they were but oingo boingo pop up quite frequently on 80s movie soundtracks. The cult musical fantasy forbidden zone was shot in black and white and released as such in 1980. The episode, in the campy 1980 cult hit forbidden zone, found the redheaded composer wiggling, shimmying and writhing as he. Uploaded by obscure films for preservation on may 17, 2019. He seizes the opportunity by stealing a significant sum of money and relocates to new york city. Aug 24, 2006 official trailer for the forbidden zone. Forbidden zone is a completely bonkers 1980 musical directed and written by richard elfman and matthew bright who would later direct freeway, created to. Forbidden zone featured brights first work on film, and his only work as an actor under the name toshiro baloney. Forbidden zone soundtrack 1980 movie soundtracks for sale. One of the last outgrowths of the great run of cult movies that packed midnight screenings from the end of the 60s until vcrs started keeping everyone home at night, richard elfmans 1980 film forbidden zone takes the anythinggoes spirit of afterhours moviegoing to its absurd extreme.
The film was produced, directed and cowritten by their thenleader richard elfman brother of soon to be famous film music composer and also key member of the band who also scored and appeared in the film danny elfman. In the bizarre 80s flick forbidden zone, director richard elfman pushes the boundaries of 20th c. Forbidden zone 1980 le film complet en streaming film. May 21 the empire strikes back is released and is the highestgrossing film of the year just as its predecessor, star wars, was three years prior. Forbidden zone planet of the apes, an offlimits area in the planet of the apes film franchise. Forbidden zone soundtrack cd details and availability. In 2008 the movie was colorized by legend films by request of the films director richard elfman. It is set in 19th century pittsburgh and is about a young man named paul who dreams of escaping his poverty stricken life. In the last book in the universe, the forbidden zone called simply the zone by those who live in eden is a minefield which separates the latches where the normals live from eden where the proovs live. Essentially 73 minutes of madness, it recklessly throws together musical numbers some lifted from.
I finally rented the beautifully remastered dvd after still more concern about just what this movie was exactly. Forbidden zone is a completely bonkers 1980 musical directed and written by richard elfman and matthew bright who would later direct freeway, created to be a last hurrah for his performance art troupe the mystic knights of the oingo boingo before elfmans brother danny reformed them as a successful new wave and ska band the movie s story focuses on a family that moves in a house. A wonderfully clunky slice of 1980 s pulp scifi silliness, spacehunter has dated fairly badly in certain regards woeful optical effects, seriously shonky pointanythingatthescreen 3d, and jawdroppingly rampant sexismmisogyny and its frankly more a series of disjointed setpieces than a cogent whole, but its still a seriously fun romp. Another weird thing is that it was recorded for the 1980 film but wasn. Antics in the forbidden zone is a greatest hits compilation and accompanying video by the english new wave musician adam ant, released 23 october 1990 by epic records. The mystic knights of the oingo boingo was the original incarnation of the danny elfmanled new wave band oingo boingo.
Forbidden zone magazine, a publication edited by horatio weisfeld forbidden zone, a song by bedrock. Forbidden zone 1980 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. In the forbidden zone, there are naked slaves, an evil queen, a topless princess, and even the devil. Arrow video released both versions of the movie on bluray where elfman addresses the colorization in the accompanied booklet. A mysterious door in the basement of the hercules house leads to the sixth dimension by way of a gigantic set of intestine. May 24, 2016 however, in 1980 the two brothers teamed up for a film inspired by the stage antics of the mystic knights. Naturally, the forbidden zone is forbidden to normals, but the zone is not forbidden to proovs. Jones gene cunningham, local pimp, narcotics peddler and slumlord, enters a vacant house that he owns.
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. The cast of forbidden zone now im not what you would call a fan of musicals. Herve villechaize susan tyrrell mariepascale elfman. Now 25 years later, with the incredible technical assistance and artistic collaboration of legend films, we are finally able to present the film as i always intended it in vivid, glorious, mindboggling color. Forbidden zone is an american musical fantasy comedy film directed and produced by richard elfman, and cowritten by elfman and fellow mystic knights. Staring toshiro boloney, hyman diamond, virginia rose and jan stuart schwartz. But oingo boingo had a rich, unique career, and nothing was more unique than forbidden zone 1980, an utterly deranged musical that completely embodied the spirit of punk rock without quite. A founding member of the mystic knights, bright later became a screenwriter.
Forbidden zone was initially developed as a short film project for the. Inside danny elfmans twisted cult film forbidden zone the story behind the elfman brothers oddball scifi fantasy that became a midnight movie classic. This is a completely bizarre film and makes no sense whatsoever. Now, every few months, im flown to a different city to address screenings full of young fans, many. Forbidden zone 1980 is on amazon prime herve villechaize and danny elfman have roles in this racist, misogynistic, homophobic comedy gem. The dvd features explain that the tone of the film is an attempt to capture the live performance style of elfman and his early oingo boingo incarnation, as a theatrical. This is nearly the bottome of the barrel for youtube.
Forbidden zone 1980 publication date 1980 topics preserve, musical, comedy, experimental. Forbidden zone is a completely bonkers 1980 musical directed and written by richard elfman and matthew bright who would later direct freeway, created to be a last hurrah for his performance art troupe the mystic knights of the oingo boingo before elfmans brother danny reformed them as a successful new wave and ska band. Oingo boingo were a surrealist theatrical avantgarde 30s jazzblues revivalists. Forbidden zones sheer gleefulstrangeness quotient still humbles that of. The plot of this midnight movie is a journey into weirdness with the hercules family who live in a weird house that has a basement portal into the forbidden zone. That microbudgeted film subsequently became a popular cult hit which has a youngand ever growingworldwide fan base. Walle the film is telling us that if we dont put an end to. Forbidden zone e um filme dirigido por richard elfman, lancado em 1980 sinopse. Jun 25, 2009 this feature is not available right now. Watched as part of the movies released into us theatres during 1980 list 29. Herman bernstein and richard elfman in forbidden zone 1982 susan tyrrell. If you like forbidden zone you are looking for stylized, humorous and offbeat movies about with cult, parallel world, mystery, danger, imaginary, chaos and mayhem and mysterious place themes of comedy, fantasy and musical genre shot in usa. Or so i thought about ten years ago, after putting up my first website, i got many thousands of hits from forbidden zone fans all around the world. Forbidden zone 2 is the upcoming sequel to an outrageous musicalfantasy i did with my brother danny elfman back in 1982.
Sep 29, 2015 forbidden zone soundtrack from 1980, composed by danny elfman. Wild, weird and utterly unique, like a mixture of jean cocteau, the. Forbidden zone is a 1980 musical comedy film based upon the stage performances of the mystic knights of the oingo boingo. Inside danny elfmans twisted cult film forbidden zone rolling. Inside danny elfmans twisted cult film forbidden zone. I guess you could say it represents danny elfmans first foray into film scoring1980s forbidden zone. Forbidden zone prepare to enter the sixth dimension, a deliriously insane world of frog butlers, topless princesses, machinegun toting teachers, chicken boys, human chandeliers and the devil himself danny elfman, all ruled by the lascivious midget king fausto herve villechaizetattoo on fantasy island and his deranged queen susan tyrrellandy warhols bad. Richard elfman forbidden zone serves as an ode to the mystic knights of the oingo boingo, just as everything about the mystic knights was completely changing. The musical adventure explores common tropes such as love, lust, infidelity, and the classic efforts of a group who will stop at nothing to save one of their own. Overall, i wold never watch it again or recommend it unless you are looking for an art movie to pick apart for a college thesis. The film begins on friday, april 17 at 4 pm in venice, california. I did love seeing herve villechaize as the king of the forbidden zone. Forbidden zone on dvd 844503000699 from legend films.
From enemy mine to flight of the navigator, here are 10 80s scifi adventure movies that are still worth checking out. Watch forbidden zone, the cult film by richard elfman fandor. The area is actually called the forbidden zone and is also an inhospitable desert, so theres some practical reason beyond the withholding of scientific information. Released in 2015 containing music from forbidden zone 1980. A low budget, blackandwhite rock n roll musical with a frog butler, a human chandelier and a midget king, forbidden zone 1980 must have seemed a daffy throwaway cult movie when it was released, another attempt to cash in on the success of the rocky horror picture show 1975, but out of this odd cinematic conglomeration. Elfmans film, like early john waters, is designed for the outsiders and outcasts who would bring their own raucous energy to a latenight window into another dimension. The derelict beatniks tackle a lovely cult film by richard elfman with more on the way. This is explored in the ending scene when eve completely repairs walle. Forbidden zone is like a pantomime stage show on crack, complete with swearing and full frontal nudity.
Forbidden zone is completely selfaware and embraces the weirdness in 1930s style animation and songs. The story almost made sense in a perverted airplane sense. Tyrrells career began in theater in new york city in the 1960s in broadway and off broadway productions. Like anything that seems completely nonsensical at first example, fellinis satyricon, a lot of things in this film probably make more sense the more you delve into it. Forbidden zone by danny elfman and the mystic knights of. But as a tuneful spectacle of weirdness, it doesnt really have an equivalent, and its easy to see the influence of its free use of popculture relics in everything from tim burtons films to the powerpuff girls. Forbidden zone soundtrack 1980 the moviemusic store. There is a booklet mentioned on the packaging that was mistakenly left out of the first batch of releases. An archive of our own, a project of the organization for transformative works.