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| Category | Comedies DVDs, Action Movies, Adult Audience Videos, Music Video, Pop Music Videos, Musical, Fantasy, Cult, Fantasy Worlds, Surreal, Devil/Demons, Hell | | Starring | Danny Elfman, Herve Villechaize, Susan Tyrrell | | Director | Richard Elfman | | Music Performer(s) | Oingo Boingo |
Prepare to enter the Sixth Dimension, a deliriously insane world of frog butlers, topless princesses, machine-gun toting teachers, chicken boys, human chandeliers, and the devil himself (Danny Elfman), all ruled by the lascivious midget King Fausto (Herve Villechaize - Tattoo on Fantasy Island) and his deranged Queen (Susan Tyrrell - Andy Warhol's Bad). A feast of visual and aural delights, reaching new found heights of insanity, invention, and questionable taste, and propelled by the incredible songs of the one and only Danny Elfman. An all-time classic of the underground cinema, featuring original music by Oscar-nominated composer Danny Elfman (PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE, BATMAN), FORBIDDEN ZONE must be seen to be believed. There is a mysterious but forbidden door in the basement of the Hercules family's new house in Venice, California; it doesn't take long for daughter Frenchy, returning home from her bizarro school that features a machine gun-toting teacher and a chicken boy, to succumb to temptation and open it. Becoming trapped in the Sixth Dimension, which is ruled by randy midget King Fausto who, as luck would have it, is looking for a new concubine, Frenchy catches the king's eye. Unfortunately she also incurs the jealous Queen Doris's wrath, and is imprisoned along with the ex-queen, who plots Doris's demise. While Frenchy's brother Flash and her Gramps endeavor to save her, a dancing frog, robot boxers, Oingo-Boingo, and Danny Elfman as Satan, all make their appearances in the Forbidden Zone.
Forbidden Zone Reviews: "...Musically lively and imaginative, this self-styled cult [picture] aims for far-out humor..."
-- Cart., Variety 3 stars out of 4 -- "[T]his self-consciously cult black-and-white freak-out musical looks like THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI remade as a Betty Boop cartoon..."-- Damien Love, Uncut 4 stars out of 5 -- "[W]rithing with smacked-out burlesque camp, it's an extended non-sequitur that flits feverishly between '30s music-hall farce and Gilliam-inspired, roughly-animated acid frenzy."-- Total Film Staff, Total Film Forbidden Zone | List Price | $21.98 (You save $5.43) | | Studio | Fantoma | | Orig Year | 1980 | | DVD Encoding | All Regions | | All Time Sales Rank |  6621  | | CD Universe Part number | 6760545 | | Catalog number | 7044 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Aug 31, 2004 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Running Time | 73 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen | | Movie Details | B&W; Dolby Surround AC-3 Sound; Surround Sound; Digital Sound; Widescreen |
Forbidden Zone Movie Review Average Rating: (3.7 out of 5 stars)   Great DVD, Movie BUT:
unfortunately the Disc has a general problem. The Extras (which are alot) don't play at all. What a Pity.....!!!
Hope they can fix this.
Submitted by Uwe-Br (Germany, Berlin) 
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 fantastic
this is great. great cult film!!!!!
Submitted by elly (japan)
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The boys and I have been waiting to greet you!
The ultimate in random, fantasy fun. It's all in black and white, anything happens, there are some supurb actors. The make-up is extreme, everyone's wearing it, there's some insane characters, like grunting boxers, a frog butler, a midget king, and oodles of others. The scene with Danny Elfman is WONDEFUL, he's a very musical Satan, singinf Squeezit (Minnie) the Moocher, too bad his firey red hair is stopped by black and white.
This movie is delightful and oh-so random, with a hyperkinetic score.
Submitted by burtonhead (Middle, OF, Nowhere)
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Forbidden Zone DVD Region 0
Keep Case
Anamorphic Widescreen -
1.78
Letterbox -
1.78
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Additional Release Material:
Behind the Scenes
Production Interviews
Music Video: "Private Life" by Oingo Boingo
Isolated Audio Track: Danny Elfman's Songs and Music
Alternate Scenes: Deleted Scenes/Outtakes
Audio Commentary: Director Richard Elfman, Composer-Actor Danny Elfman, Writer-Actor Michael Bright
Trailers: Original Theatrical Trailer
Bonus Footage: Two Complete Scenes from "the Hercules Family"
Shorts:
1. Elfman's lost film, "The Hercules Family"
2. A History of the Mystic Knights of Oingo Boingo
Text/Photo Galleries:
Song Lyrics
Additional Products:
Collectible Booklet
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