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Forbidden Zone

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Danny Elfman, Jan Stuart Schwartz, and Susan Tyrrell in Forbidden Zone (1980)
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The bizarre and musical tale of a girl who travels to another dimension through the gateway found in her family's basement.The bizarre and musical tale of a girl who travels to another dimension through the gateway found in her family's basement.The bizarre and musical tale of a girl who travels to another dimension through the gateway found in her family's basement.
IMDb RATING
6.6/10
5.1K
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    • Richard Elfman
  • Writers
    • Richard Elfman(story)
    • Matthew Bright(screenplay)
    • Martin Nicholson(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Gene Cunningham
    • Marie-Pascale Elfman
    • Virginia Rose
    • Richard Elfman
  • Writers
    • Richard Elfman(story)
    • Matthew Bright(screenplay)
    • Martin Nicholson(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Gene Cunningham
    • Marie-Pascale Elfman
    • Virginia Rose
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 103User reviews
    • 62Critic reviews
    • 64Metascore
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    Danny Elfman, Marie-Pascale Elfman, Jan Stuart Schwartz, Susan Tyrrell, Hervé Villechaize, and Martin von Haselberg in Forbidden Zone (1980)
    Danny Elfman, Jan Stuart Schwartz, Susan Tyrrell, and Hervé Villechaize in Forbidden Zone (1980)
    Forbidden Zone (1980)
    Joe Spinell and Susan Tyrrell in Forbidden Zone (1980)
    Herman Bernstein, Hyman Diamond, and Phil Gordon in Forbidden Zone (1980)
    Brian Routh, Jan Stuart Schwartz, Susan Tyrrell, Hervé Villechaize, and Martin von Haselberg in Forbidden Zone (1980)
    Susan Tyrrell in Forbidden Zone (1980)
    Susan Tyrrell in Forbidden Zone (1980)
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    Susan Tyrrell and Hervé Villechaize in Forbidden Zone (1980)
    Marie-Pascale Elfman and Hervé Villechaize in Forbidden Zone (1980)
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    Gene Cunningham
    • Huckleberry P. Jones
    • (as Ugh-Fudge Bwana)
    • …
    Marie-Pascale Elfman
    Marie-Pascale Elfman
    • Susan B. 'Frenchy' Hercules
    Virginia Rose
    • Ma Hercules
    Phil Gordon
    • Flash Hercules
    Hyman Diamond
    Hyman Diamond
    • Gramps Hercules
    Brian Routh
    • Harry Kipper
    • (as The Kipper Kids)
    Martin von Haselberg
    Martin von Haselberg
    • Harry Kipper
    • (as The Kipper Kids)
    Jan Stuart Schwartz
    Jan Stuart Schwartz
    • Bust Rod, the Servant Frog
    Susan Tyrrell
    Susan Tyrrell
    • Queen Doris of the Sixth Dimension…
    Gisele Lindley
    • The Princess
    Rosilyn Aronson
    • First Teasing Girl
    Rosilyn Crinion
    • Second Teasing Girl
    Matthew Bright
    Matthew Bright
    • Squeezit & René Henderson
    • (as Toshiro Boloney)
    Kedric Wolfe
    • Human Chandelier…
    Sugar Bear
    • Gunfighting Student
    James Bordus
    • Gunshot Victim…
    Redonte Reola
    • Small Student
    Brenda Star
    • Sexy Student
      • Richard Elfman
    • Writers
      • Richard Elfman(story) (screenplay)
      • Matthew Bright(screenplay)
      • Martin Nicholson(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      Director Richard Elfman and star Marie-Pascale Elfman, who were married at the time, financed the movie by buying, renovating and selling houses. They ran out of money and the movie was rescued by a benefactor.
    • Quotes

      Chicken: You know the chickens are always ready to help you any way we can. But as you know...

      Squeezit: What can chickens do?

      Chicken: Precisely.

    • Alternate versions
      Premiere long version running time is: 76 mins., 38 secs. Theatrical Version is: 73 mins., 11 sec. The colorized version runs 74 mins., 14 secs., restoring René Henderson's verse in "Queen's Revenge," which previously only appeared as a "deleted scene" in the special features section of the Fantomas DVD edition. This is the version preferred by the director.
    • Connections
      Featured in A Look Into 'the Forbidden Zone' (2004)
    • Soundtracks
      Witch's Egg
      Composed by Georg Michalski (as George Mishalsky) and Susan Tyrrell

      Performed by Susan Tyrrell (uncredited)

      Produced by Loren-Paul Caplin

    User reviews103

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    A LYSERGIC LIVE-ACTION MAX FLEISCHER CARTOON...WITH OINGO BOINGO!!!
    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!
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    • Jan 3, 2002

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    • Release date
      • March 21, 1982 (United States)
      • United States
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      • English
      • French
      • German
    • Also known as
      • Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Hercules Films Ltd.
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    • 1 hour 14 minutes
      • Black and White
      • Stereo

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