Forbidden Zone (1982)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.9/10   

Director:

Richard Elfman

Escritores:

Matthew Bright (writer)
Richard Elfman (screenplay)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

21 marzo 1982 (USA)

Género:

Comedia | Fantasía | Musical

Frase comercial:

A chaotic musical fantasy.

Plot:

A mysterious door in the basement of the Hercules house leads to the Sixth Dimension by way of a gigantic set of intestine...

Plot Keywords:

King | Midget | Queen | Chicken | Shot To Death

Premios:

1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

If David Lynch Had Directed Betty Boop . . .

Reparto

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)

Duración:

73 min | USA:74 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Clasificación:

USA:R

Compañía:

Hercules Films Ltd.

Trivialidades:

According to Matthew Bright in the film's commentary, in the original conception of his classroom humiliation scene, Squeezit was supposed to be castrated in front of the other students.

Citas:

Pa Hercules: You leave me be. In the real world up there, I was just another rat. And down here, I also live like a rat. So what's the difference? Go away. I want to be alone.
Flash: Ah, banana oil.

Conexiones de Película:

References Snow-White (1933)

Banda de Sonido:

Some of These Days

If David Lynch Had Directed Betty Boop . . .

No live-action movie has ever captured the anarchic feel of the rubbery Max Fleischer cartoons of the 1930s better than "Forbidden Zone." It's an LSD-fueled Betty Boop picture mixed with "Alice in Wonderland" and "The Inferno," all filtered through David Lynch's kaleidoscope (or run through R. Crumb's Cuisinart).

The story, such as it is, deals with the adventures of Frenchy Hercules, who lives over a doorway to the "Sixth Dimension," which is ruled by King Fausto (Herve Villechaize) and Queen Doris (Susan Tyrrell) with sadomasochistic glee. The whole flick really fits the Betty Boop formula perfectly--a shapely heroine (who loves to rumba) falls from her own bizarre "reality" into an even stranger one. Much mayhem and cool swing music ensue, as Frenchy's brother and grandfather (playing the roles of Bimbo and Koko the Clown from the old Fleischer cartoons) try to rescue the unfortunate girl.

This strange mix of animation and live action really has to be seen to be believed--all very low budget and very imaginative (a quality sorely lacking in movies lately). Fans of Oingo Boingo won't want to miss this one (especially group leader Danny Elfman's Cab Calloway-like turn as Satan in the flick's best scene). There are racial and ethnic stereotypes galore, but since this movie seems to exist in an entirely different universe, it doesn't come across as offensive.

Not for everyone--but a "can't miss" for some. Worth seeing just for the musical numbers alone.