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Features: DVD, Dolby Digital (5.1), Black & White
Editor's Note
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.
| Features | 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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Release Information
|  | Studio: Rhino |
| Release Date: 8/31/2004 |
| Running Time: 73 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1980 | | Catalog ID: 7044 | | UPC: 00695026704423 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: B&W |
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| | Professional Reviews | Variety
"...Musically lively and imaginative, this self-styled cult [picture] aims for far-out humor..." 03/26/1980Uncut
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..." 10/01/2006 p.156 Total Film
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." 10/01/2006 p.117 |
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