Rex’s Film Reviews … FORBIDDEN ZONE

One of the strangest films I have ever seen, and the director (film score composer Danny Elfman’s brother), Richard Elfman. Elfman swears he wasn’t on drugs when he made this film. Hard to believe.  Anyway, the film is based on Oingo Boingo’s early stage performances. For you younguns, Oingo Boingo is Danny Elfman’s band from the eighties. If you don’t know who Danny Elfman is, he makes all of the music for Tim Burton’s movies. If you don’t know who Tim Burton is, stop reading this immediately. Back to the film. The Hercules family have a door to the sixth dimension in the kitchen, and when the daughter Frenchy goes there, King Fausto (Fantasy Island’s Herve Villechaize) falls in love with her. The Queen (Susan Tyrrell) takes Frenchy prisoner, and it is up to the Hercules family and their friend Squeezit to rescue her. Look for a cameo by Danny Elfman as Satan, as well as the oddest supporting cast ever, like a frog butler and a machine gun toting school teacher, who has the class singing a vulgar alphabet song (fe fi ficky fuck u!)