MidWest WeirdFest has announced its full program for 2024. The 8th annual film festival – a cinematic celebration of of all things fantastic, frightening, paranormal, and just plain weird – takes place March 1st – 3rd 2024 at the Micon Downtown Cinema in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. The fest’s fantastic line-up of horror, sci-fi, underground, paranormal, and documentary cinema, kicks off at 6pm, Friday March 1, with the theatrical world premiere of the brand new, and soon to be cult hit, Blind Cop 2.- which is just one of the amazing feature films to be showcased at the festival next month, along with over fifty short films.
The feature films screening at the festival include:
Blind Cop 2: (dir: Alec Bonk ) Theatrical World Premiere
A sequel to a film that doesn’t exist, this is a riotous homage and parody of 80s action cinema. Blind Cop, the former beacon of justice, is consumed by grief after...
The feature films screening at the festival include:
Blind Cop 2: (dir: Alec Bonk ) Theatrical World Premiere
A sequel to a film that doesn’t exist, this is a riotous homage and parody of 80s action cinema. Blind Cop, the former beacon of justice, is consumed by grief after...
- 2/21/2024
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
A Night of Horror International Film Festival, announces its first programming wave for 2024 today. Long known as Australia’s premier genre film event, the festival now takes place in the United States. This year, the festival’s 16th edition – and first in the US – screens from March 1-3, at the Micon Downtown Cinema in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
Says festival director Dean Bertram:
To move a fest I co-founded in Sydney, Australia, back in 2006, to America feels surreal. A Night of Horror has long taken pride in being recognized for its excellence in showcasing the best and bloodiest new horror films from around the globe. And this year’s program is already shaping up to be one of my favorite line-ups yet. In the first wave alone are some of the most original, terrifying, and at times hilarious genre offerings that you’ll see this year: A bloody buffet of zombies,...
Says festival director Dean Bertram:
To move a fest I co-founded in Sydney, Australia, back in 2006, to America feels surreal. A Night of Horror has long taken pride in being recognized for its excellence in showcasing the best and bloodiest new horror films from around the globe. And this year’s program is already shaping up to be one of my favorite line-ups yet. In the first wave alone are some of the most original, terrifying, and at times hilarious genre offerings that you’ll see this year: A bloody buffet of zombies,...
- 2/12/2024
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Film and TV financing company FilmHedge has set a first-look pact with the Apiary, a startup animation and game design firm based in Lakeland, Fla.
The deal calls for FilmHedge to provide up to $25 million in financing for projects produced by Apiary, which was founded last year by architect Brad Lunz. Apiary recently inked a deal with Oingo Boingo alum Richard Elfman to develop and write animated projects. Apiary, Elfman and “Rick and Morty” producer Starburns Industries are at work on the original sci-fi animated project “Echo in Space.”
FilmHedge was founded in 2020 as a vehicle to provide financing and credit services to independent producers. The company raised $100 million of its own financing in 2022 “to meet growing demand,” according to FilmHedge.
“We are thrilled to welcome The Apiary to FilmHedge’s expanding family of preferred production partners,” said Jon Gosier, FilmHedge’s founder and CEO, FilmHedge. “FilmHedge has committed $25 million...
The deal calls for FilmHedge to provide up to $25 million in financing for projects produced by Apiary, which was founded last year by architect Brad Lunz. Apiary recently inked a deal with Oingo Boingo alum Richard Elfman to develop and write animated projects. Apiary, Elfman and “Rick and Morty” producer Starburns Industries are at work on the original sci-fi animated project “Echo in Space.”
FilmHedge was founded in 2020 as a vehicle to provide financing and credit services to independent producers. The company raised $100 million of its own financing in 2022 “to meet growing demand,” according to FilmHedge.
“We are thrilled to welcome The Apiary to FilmHedge’s expanding family of preferred production partners,” said Jon Gosier, FilmHedge’s founder and CEO, FilmHedge. “FilmHedge has committed $25 million...
- 12/21/2023
- by William Earl
- Variety Film + TV
In just a matter of weeks, Popcorn Frights Film Festival will return for its ninth edition of sun-soaked, blood-splattered cinematic scares this August in South Florida, and following the reveals of their first two waves of programming, the third wave of must-see screenings and essential events for the festival has been announced, including the Bloomquist Brothers’ new slasher Founders Day, Olivia West Lloyd’s Somewhere Quiet, a 4K restoration of Nightmare (1981), horror movie trivia presented by Fangoria, and much more!
As previously announced, this year's Popcorn Frights Film Festival will run August 10th–20th, with screenings taking place at Fort Lauderdale's historic Savor Cinema and “The Horror Collective Screening Room” at Miami Beach's O Cinema South Beach (as part of a special partnership between Popcorn Frights and Entertainment Squad's The Horror Collective).
You can purchase In-Theater All-Access Badges here and Virtual Passes here.
Below, we have a look at...
As previously announced, this year's Popcorn Frights Film Festival will run August 10th–20th, with screenings taking place at Fort Lauderdale's historic Savor Cinema and “The Horror Collective Screening Room” at Miami Beach's O Cinema South Beach (as part of a special partnership between Popcorn Frights and Entertainment Squad's The Horror Collective).
You can purchase In-Theater All-Access Badges here and Virtual Passes here.
Below, we have a look at...
- 7/27/2023
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Where were you when the best Coachella set since Beyoncé happened? When Danny Elfman took the stage of Coachella shirtless on April 2022 to perform music from his band Oingo Boingo as well as the scores of “A Nightmare Before Christmas,” “Edward Scissorhands,” and — of course — “The Simpsons,” it set Twitter afire. The sometimes goofy, undeniably epic performance was a delight that reminded people of a universal fact: Danny Elfman rocks.
Elfman made his film composing debut in 1980 with “Forbidden Zone,” which was directed by his brother Richard Elfman and was based on the work of Danny’s experimental musical theater group “The Mystic Knights of Oingo Boingo.” The Mystic Knights were soon reformed into the (somewhat) more conventional new wave band Oingo Boingo, and their music found a fan in director Tim Burton, who recruited Elfman to score his feature debut “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure.” From there, a partnership was formed,...
Elfman made his film composing debut in 1980 with “Forbidden Zone,” which was directed by his brother Richard Elfman and was based on the work of Danny’s experimental musical theater group “The Mystic Knights of Oingo Boingo.” The Mystic Knights were soon reformed into the (somewhat) more conventional new wave band Oingo Boingo, and their music found a fan in director Tim Burton, who recruited Elfman to score his feature debut “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure.” From there, a partnership was formed,...
- 6/2/2023
- by Wilson Chapman and Alison Foreman
- Indiewire
As horror becomes more and more popular, venturing well into mainstream spaces, it’s easy to forget the genre’s underground network of films. They are far less polished, they feature no household name actors and, for the most part, they are deemed too unsavory for the general public. If that description hasn’t scared you off yet, then behold Bloody Bridget, Richard Elfman’s newest film.
Bloody Bridget concerns an ambitious but down-on-her-luck performance artist (Anastasia Elfman) who gets back at her abusers and then some. This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity entails Bridget becoming a heart-eating and mythologically-brewed vampire after she meets Baron Samedi (Jean Charles), an lwa of Haitian Vodou from another realm. It’s not long before Bridget gets to take her new powers out for a test drive.
Along with the audience, Bridget finds immediate pleasure in hurting the usual suspects in her life. The chronically unfaithful boyfriend...
Bloody Bridget concerns an ambitious but down-on-her-luck performance artist (Anastasia Elfman) who gets back at her abusers and then some. This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity entails Bridget becoming a heart-eating and mythologically-brewed vampire after she meets Baron Samedi (Jean Charles), an lwa of Haitian Vodou from another realm. It’s not long before Bridget gets to take her new powers out for a test drive.
Along with the audience, Bridget finds immediate pleasure in hurting the usual suspects in her life. The chronically unfaithful boyfriend...
- 5/23/2023
- by Paul Lê
- bloody-disgusting.com
Richard Elfman redefined underground cinema with his barely-categorizable 1980 film Forbidden Zone, a vehicle for his musical unit The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo. He re-energized absurdist cinema with the musically-propelled sci-fi comedy Aliens, Clowns &- Geeks (2021). Directed and written by Elfman, the upcoming Bloody Bridget is another music-driven piece with a score by Ego Plum and Richard’s brother Danny Elfman.
For Bloody Bridget, Elfman is infusing new blood, and plenty of heart, into the vampire genre he thought he’d staked with the 1998 cult horror movie Revenant (aka Modern Vampires). Richard’s wife Anastasia Elfman plays Bridget, a dance horror choreographer who is sexually harassed and tossed into a legal wringer. Voodoo father Baron Samedi (Jean Charles) mistakes her for his wife, the Irish saint Maman Brigitte, and turns her into a “Valentine vampire.” Blood is just an appetizer for the main course. She “must feast on the hearts of evil-doers,...
For Bloody Bridget, Elfman is infusing new blood, and plenty of heart, into the vampire genre he thought he’d staked with the 1998 cult horror movie Revenant (aka Modern Vampires). Richard’s wife Anastasia Elfman plays Bridget, a dance horror choreographer who is sexually harassed and tossed into a legal wringer. Voodoo father Baron Samedi (Jean Charles) mistakes her for his wife, the Irish saint Maman Brigitte, and turns her into a “Valentine vampire.” Blood is just an appetizer for the main course. She “must feast on the hearts of evil-doers,...
- 5/16/2023
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
Cult indie filmmaker Richard Elfman is back this year with brand new movie Bloody Bridget, a wild comedy-horror film that’s taking a bite out of the Fantaspoa film festival on April 22. While we wait for wide release information, Bloody Disgusting has been exclusively provided with the Nsfw teaser trailer today.
Additionally, Richard Elfman wrote up some words for the Bd readers.
“Be it music, film, stage or the written page, my life’s passion is to entertain,” Elfman writes. “But…in a manner that expresses an original and very personal vision. Of course I want my audiences to have some kick-ass fun, yet also to discover something new and different. In my long (and somewhat checkered) career, Bloody Bridget is the third film that I feel really proud of in terms of having my “Elfo Fun Stamp.” Forbidden Zone, Aliens, Clowns & Geeks and now Bloody Bridget. (And we really...
Additionally, Richard Elfman wrote up some words for the Bd readers.
“Be it music, film, stage or the written page, my life’s passion is to entertain,” Elfman writes. “But…in a manner that expresses an original and very personal vision. Of course I want my audiences to have some kick-ass fun, yet also to discover something new and different. In my long (and somewhat checkered) career, Bloody Bridget is the third film that I feel really proud of in terms of having my “Elfo Fun Stamp.” Forbidden Zone, Aliens, Clowns & Geeks and now Bloody Bridget. (And we really...
- 4/19/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
(Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they've been watching, why it's worth checking out, and where you can stream it.)
The Movie: "Forbidden Zone"
Where You Can Stream It: Tubi, Kanopy, Night Flight, Plex, Flixfling
The Pitch: Back in 1972, one Richard Elfman, then only a lad of 23, founded a musical theater troupe on the streets of Los Angeles called the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo. This was after performing music in Paris and being involved in numerous theater projects throughout his youth. The Mystic Knights were a massive band, consisting of 15 members, and dedicated to performing old songs from the 1920s through the 1940s. For an early glimpse of what kind of act the Mystic Knights performed, check out their appearance on "The Gong Show" in 1976. Richard is the one in the miniature rocket ship playing the train whistle.
The Movie: "Forbidden Zone"
Where You Can Stream It: Tubi, Kanopy, Night Flight, Plex, Flixfling
The Pitch: Back in 1972, one Richard Elfman, then only a lad of 23, founded a musical theater troupe on the streets of Los Angeles called the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo. This was after performing music in Paris and being involved in numerous theater projects throughout his youth. The Mystic Knights were a massive band, consisting of 15 members, and dedicated to performing old songs from the 1920s through the 1940s. For an early glimpse of what kind of act the Mystic Knights performed, check out their appearance on "The Gong Show" in 1976. Richard is the one in the miniature rocket ship playing the train whistle.
- 3/5/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Stars: Katie Parker, Rahul Kohli, Karen Gillan, Rose McIver | Written and Directed by Mali Elfman
After a video surfaces of a child playing cards with a ghost – released by “life Beyond’ a scientific study based in San Francisco and run by Dr. Stevenson (Karen Gillan) – leads to widespread acceptance of ghosts, people begin volunteering to commit suicide so they can be part of the scientific research and move on to the afterlife. An afterlife that is no longer terrifying given what Stevenson’s research has revealed. Two of those volunteers are New Yorkers Rose, a woman who’s seemingly trying to escape her current life; and Teddy, a man who wants to be famous – even if fame is found through dying. The duo, total strangers, find themselves at a car rental place. Both are denied a rental – Rose because she doesn’t have a credit card and Teddy because his...
After a video surfaces of a child playing cards with a ghost – released by “life Beyond’ a scientific study based in San Francisco and run by Dr. Stevenson (Karen Gillan) – leads to widespread acceptance of ghosts, people begin volunteering to commit suicide so they can be part of the scientific research and move on to the afterlife. An afterlife that is no longer terrifying given what Stevenson’s research has revealed. Two of those volunteers are New Yorkers Rose, a woman who’s seemingly trying to escape her current life; and Teddy, a man who wants to be famous – even if fame is found through dying. The duo, total strangers, find themselves at a car rental place. Both are denied a rental – Rose because she doesn’t have a credit card and Teddy because his...
- 8/30/2022
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
All Star Cast Featured in Hilarious Cult Classic with Bonus Content! Actor/director and creative multi-hyphenate Richard Elfman returns with his latest zany comedy, Aliens, Clowns & Geeks. This out-of-this-world adventure sees out-of-work actor Eddy Pine (Bodhi Elfman) stumble upon the key to the universe and get twisted up in an intergalatic war between killer clowns and …
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- 5/20/2022
- by Adrian Halen
- Horror News
Danny Elfman's music career began when he was only 19. It was 1972, and Richard Elfman, Danny's older brother, founded a surrealist -- and mighty raunchy -- burlesque troupe called The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo. The troupe would tour L.A.'s underground theater scene for years, and Danny would eventually take leadership of the group, pushing them in a more musical direction. By 1976, The Mystic Knights were performing standards from the '30s and '40s. Sadly, as they performed live in public spaces, there are no recordings of the Mystic Knights in their early days, save for one cameo appearance...
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- 5/8/2022
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Hello, everyone! This week’s Blu-ray and DVD offerings are quite an eclectic bunch, as we have a few recent titles coming out on Tuesday, but we also have a few classic horrors from Mexico finally getting a release, which is pretty darned cool. In terms of the newer horrors, Guillermo del Toro’s masterpiece Nightmare Alley is heading home to various formats, and if you missed it when it was airing, now you can finally catch up on the Dexter: New Blood revival this week as well. As mentioned, Indicator is showing some love to two classic horror movies from Mexico—La Llorona and The Phantom of the Monastery—on Blu-ray this week, and Richard Elfman’s Modern Vampires is getting the HD treatment, too.
Other home media titles coming home on March 22nd include 6:45, Blood Claws, Grave of the Living Dead, Bryan Loves You: Collector’s Edition,...
Other home media titles coming home on March 22nd include 6:45, Blood Claws, Grave of the Living Dead, Bryan Loves You: Collector’s Edition,...
- 3/21/2022
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
No one sets out to make a cult movie. Most filmmakers aspire to commercial heights even if they only have the budgets for a B-movie. They see films like Blair Witch realign box office accounting and apply all kinds of quantum physics to mimic the exponential multiplication. Very few achieve it, and the ones which do usually do it by accident, and certainly not with serious intent. Aliens, Clowns & Geeks is not afraid to be ridiculous. It joins the ranks as such brave films as Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, Killer Klowns From Outer Space, and Frankenhooker.
It is also so much more than these films, dripping with artistry, and yet considerably less, with masturbating aliens, pussy ping pong, and sphincter-pinching obelisks. Richard Elfman’s sci-fi comedy has an abundance of experimental fun and a happily reckless disregard for taste. It owes as much to Frank Zappa as it does to Frank Capra,...
It is also so much more than these films, dripping with artistry, and yet considerably less, with masturbating aliens, pussy ping pong, and sphincter-pinching obelisks. Richard Elfman’s sci-fi comedy has an abundance of experimental fun and a happily reckless disregard for taste. It owes as much to Frank Zappa as it does to Frank Capra,...
- 1/22/2021
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
The Notebook Primer introduces readers to some of the most important figures, films, genres, and movements in film history.Golden Eighties From a broad angle view, it seems as though all movies made in the 1980s could be classified as either action or musical. The neon glitz of the decade easily melds with the flamboyance of musicals, and it was a time when budgets soared, so lavish song-and-dance set pieces fit in nicely with the decadence. But 80s musicals also changed things up in the genre—sometimes focusing more on choreography, other times the songs. The burgeoning cult status of The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) also had producers scrambling for the ineffable weirdness that captured the imagination of an audience so intensely that they wanted to spend every weekend watching and mimicking what so delighted them on screen This resulted in odd choices that inevitably flopped, and took decades to gain a devoted following,...
- 12/22/2020
- MUBI
Forty years after the release of his cult film Forbidden Zone, director Richard Elfman is going back into the edit bay to fix an uncomfortable problem.
“My 1980 cult film Forbidden Zone is getting a tweak,” Elfman says during our sitdown. “It had a few seconds of blackface that I regretted since its first screening.” Indeed, the director issued a statement previously denouncing the offensive image two years ago through Dread Central. Now he is finally able to rectify it for future generations, without changing the subversive intent of the film as a whole. “FX friends are presently helping me change the blackface to ‘clownface,’” Elfman says.
Forbidden Zone was made when offense was a calling card of underground filmmaking, a cornerstone of counterculture publications, and a seven-minute set for standup comedians. This is perhaps why Elfman’s film has been hit with accusations of homophobia, and branded as both anti-Christian and anti-semetic,...
“My 1980 cult film Forbidden Zone is getting a tweak,” Elfman says during our sitdown. “It had a few seconds of blackface that I regretted since its first screening.” Indeed, the director issued a statement previously denouncing the offensive image two years ago through Dread Central. Now he is finally able to rectify it for future generations, without changing the subversive intent of the film as a whole. “FX friends are presently helping me change the blackface to ‘clownface,’” Elfman says.
Forbidden Zone was made when offense was a calling card of underground filmmaking, a cornerstone of counterculture publications, and a seven-minute set for standup comedians. This is perhaps why Elfman’s film has been hit with accusations of homophobia, and branded as both anti-Christian and anti-semetic,...
- 10/7/2020
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
John Williams is great and all, but there aren’t a ton of his iconic film scores that I might actually want to listen to while working out. For that, you need to turn to the rock stars, the guys who perform to 20,000 screaming people one night and then collaborate with David Fincher the next. They make the kind of scores that raise the eyebrows of writers at Pitchfork and inspire bedroom hipsters to go out and see an indie film that might otherwise never get an audience.
Trent Reznor
The Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor burst out onto the film score scene when he composed the icy, digitized beats for David Fincher’s “The Social Network” in 2010. He and his collaborator Atticus Ross won the Oscar that year, and he’s since had a wave of creativity on other Fincher films like “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” and “Gone Girl.
Trent Reznor
The Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor burst out onto the film score scene when he composed the icy, digitized beats for David Fincher’s “The Social Network” in 2010. He and his collaborator Atticus Ross won the Oscar that year, and he’s since had a wave of creativity on other Fincher films like “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” and “Gone Girl.
- 10/6/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Darren Lynn Bousman joins Josh and Joe to discuss his favorite over-the-top musicals of the 70s.
Show Notes:
Movies Referenced In This Episode
Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)
Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)
Sorcerer (1977)
Star Wars (1977)
Death of Me (2020)
Jesus Christ: Superstar (1973)
Pennies From Heaven (1981)
A History Of Violence (2005)
Requiem For A Dream (2000)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
The Movie Orgy (1968)
Gremlins (1984)
The Room (2003)
Rocky (1976)
Hair (1979)
The Apple (1980)
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978)
Tommy (1975)
Quadrophenia (1979)
Altered States (1980)
The Devils (1971)
Trapped Ashes (2006)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Devil’s Carnival (2012)
Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
Rent (2005)
Wild In The Streets (1968)
A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory (1971)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Jazz Singer (1980)
Forbidden Zone (1982)
Eddie and the Cruisers (1983)
The First Nudie Musical (1976)
Chatterbox (1977)
Goldilocks and the Three Bares (1963)
Cabaret (1972)
Saw II (2005)
Other Notable Items
Final Draft
Paris Hilton
Elvira
Angelyne
The William Friedkin podcast episode
Leonardo DiCaprio
Jesus Christ Superstar...
Show Notes:
Movies Referenced In This Episode
Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)
Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)
Sorcerer (1977)
Star Wars (1977)
Death of Me (2020)
Jesus Christ: Superstar (1973)
Pennies From Heaven (1981)
A History Of Violence (2005)
Requiem For A Dream (2000)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
The Movie Orgy (1968)
Gremlins (1984)
The Room (2003)
Rocky (1976)
Hair (1979)
The Apple (1980)
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978)
Tommy (1975)
Quadrophenia (1979)
Altered States (1980)
The Devils (1971)
Trapped Ashes (2006)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Devil’s Carnival (2012)
Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
Rent (2005)
Wild In The Streets (1968)
A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory (1971)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Jazz Singer (1980)
Forbidden Zone (1982)
Eddie and the Cruisers (1983)
The First Nudie Musical (1976)
Chatterbox (1977)
Goldilocks and the Three Bares (1963)
Cabaret (1972)
Saw II (2005)
Other Notable Items
Final Draft
Paris Hilton
Elvira
Angelyne
The William Friedkin podcast episode
Leonardo DiCaprio
Jesus Christ Superstar...
- 10/6/2020
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
VHYes is more than a celebration of 80s video culture. It provides perfect hindsight for 2020.
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VHYes is a terrible title for a very cool and misleadingly smart and innovative movie. The film was directed by Jack Henry Robbins, the son of Susan Sarandon and Tim Roberts, both cult movie icons. Sarandon for her turns in Pretty Baby and the absolute pinnacle of midnight movies, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Roberts, to me for his Jacob in the dread film masterpiece Jacob's Ladder, but at the very least for Tapeheads, a film about the video industry itself, or Howard the Duck. VHYes is an exciting return to the true cult films of decades ago. But you have to get past the title. That could also be a point.
The film is a comedy anthology, like Groove Tube, Kentucky Fried Movie, and Tunnel Vision. But it is also very creepy,...
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VHYes is a terrible title for a very cool and misleadingly smart and innovative movie. The film was directed by Jack Henry Robbins, the son of Susan Sarandon and Tim Roberts, both cult movie icons. Sarandon for her turns in Pretty Baby and the absolute pinnacle of midnight movies, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Roberts, to me for his Jacob in the dread film masterpiece Jacob's Ladder, but at the very least for Tapeheads, a film about the video industry itself, or Howard the Duck. VHYes is an exciting return to the true cult films of decades ago. But you have to get past the title. That could also be a point.
The film is a comedy anthology, like Groove Tube, Kentucky Fried Movie, and Tunnel Vision. But it is also very creepy,...
- 1/15/2020
- Den of Geek
As the calendar changes from October to November, Mexican horror fans will ascend for the twelfth year on Morbido Fest, a Mexico City-based festival dedicated to all things macabre, organized and executed by Morbido Group CEO and founder Pablo Guisa Koestinger.
This year’s festival will kick off Oct. 30 with a spectacle grander in its ambition than any Morbido inauguration before. Taking place within the Esperanza Iris City theater, more than 60 artists will perform six choreographed musical numbers with Guisa taking the reigns as master of ceremonies. Those familiar with Guisa and his public persona won’t be surprised to hear that his opening night wardrobe alone includes eight costumes, with more to come in the following days.
Somehow, the TV network owner, festival director, writer, publisher and radio host found time to make appearances in three high-profile films screening at this year’s fest: Paco Plaza’s “Eye for an Eye,...
This year’s festival will kick off Oct. 30 with a spectacle grander in its ambition than any Morbido inauguration before. Taking place within the Esperanza Iris City theater, more than 60 artists will perform six choreographed musical numbers with Guisa taking the reigns as master of ceremonies. Those familiar with Guisa and his public persona won’t be surprised to hear that his opening night wardrobe alone includes eight costumes, with more to come in the following days.
Somehow, the TV network owner, festival director, writer, publisher and radio host found time to make appearances in three high-profile films screening at this year’s fest: Paco Plaza’s “Eye for an Eye,...
- 10/30/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Ahead of its premiere at the Morbido Film Fest in Mexico City (October 30th to November 3rd) filmmaker/musician Richard Elfman has released a rocking video to promote Aliens, Clowns & Geeks! Check out Mambo Diabolico at the top of the article! Related Article: Aliens, Clowns & Geeks to Premiere at Morbido Film Fest Related Article: Forbidden Zone […]
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- 10/28/2019
- by Josh Millican
- DreadCentral.com
A sci-fi comedy by Richard Elfman will premiere at the Morbido Film Fest in Mexico City, October 30th to November 3rd. The film is about an out-of-work actor who stumbles upon the key to the universe, is pulled into an intergalactic conflict between clowns and aliens. Aliens, Clowns & Geeks features an original score by Danny Elfman and Ego Plum Guerrero and includes music by Oingo […]
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- 10/12/2019
- by Josh Millican
- DreadCentral.com
Hipsters, Gangsters, Aliens And Geeks Teaser: Richard Elfman's Brand of Gonzo Cinema on Full Display
We are playing a bit of catch up here. Multi-hyphanite Richard Elfman was kind enough to remind me that the teaser for his new film Hipsters, Gangsters, Aliens and Geeks came out last week. It is every bit as weird, wonderful, crazy, and bonkers as you expect it to be. It is such a wonderful and gonzo reflection of the man himself. On a bit of a sad note Hipsters, Gangsters, Aliens and Geeks contains one of the final roles of Verne Troyer, who passed away in 2018. Out-of-work actor stumbles upon key to the universe, is drawn into intergalactic war between clowns and aliens. Elfman also revealed this past weekend that Hipsters, Gangsters, Aliens and Geeks will have its world premiere...
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- 9/23/2019
- Screen Anarchy
Tony Sokol Oct 9, 2019
Scifi comedy Aliens, Clowns & Geeks release date set for Mexico’s Dia de los Muertos celebration.
A cult classic in the making will debut at a tribute to a horror classic during a celebration of the dead. The upcoming science fiction comedy Aliens, Clowns & Geeks, which features Verne Troyer in his last role, will premiere at the Morbido Film Fest, Latin America’s premiere genre film festival. The festival takes place in Mexico City from Oct. 30 to Nov. 3 and includes immersive events that intertwine with Mexico’s Dia de los Muertos celebration.
Aliens, Clowns & Geeks is directed by Richard Elfman, who helmed the cult classic Forbidden Zone. Elfman's live theatrical pre-shows for that film are legendary and the tradition will continue. His wife Anastasia Elfman, who plays five roles in Aliens, Clowns & Geeks, will perform horror/burlesque at Morbido’s tribute to the 25th anniversary of Alejandro Jodorowski's horror classic,...
Scifi comedy Aliens, Clowns & Geeks release date set for Mexico’s Dia de los Muertos celebration.
A cult classic in the making will debut at a tribute to a horror classic during a celebration of the dead. The upcoming science fiction comedy Aliens, Clowns & Geeks, which features Verne Troyer in his last role, will premiere at the Morbido Film Fest, Latin America’s premiere genre film festival. The festival takes place in Mexico City from Oct. 30 to Nov. 3 and includes immersive events that intertwine with Mexico’s Dia de los Muertos celebration.
Aliens, Clowns & Geeks is directed by Richard Elfman, who helmed the cult classic Forbidden Zone. Elfman's live theatrical pre-shows for that film are legendary and the tradition will continue. His wife Anastasia Elfman, who plays five roles in Aliens, Clowns & Geeks, will perform horror/burlesque at Morbido’s tribute to the 25th anniversary of Alejandro Jodorowski's horror classic,...
- 9/6/2019
- Den of Geek
Pennywise floated back into theaters last night in It: Chapter Two, but if you’re looking for an epic clownpocalypse of insanity, take a gander at the teaser for Richard Elfman’s Hipsters, Gangsters, Aliens and Geeks embedded at the top of the article! Look for Hipsters, Gangsters, Aliens and Geeks in late November. Related Article: Exclusive: […]
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- 9/6/2019
- by Josh Millican
- DreadCentral.com
Tony Sokol Aug 29, 2019
Forbidden Zone director Richard Elfman pulls a movie with the key to the universe out of his butt in Hipsters, Gangsters, Aliens & Geeks.
In the pantheon of cult movies, Forbidden Zone stands at high midnight. Richard Elfman's 1980 Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo vehicle was a one-of-a-kind film careening down on a one-way street to an oddly predestined end. On the clock of Midnight Movies, his upcoming Hipsters, Gangsters, Aliens & Geeks runs sometime after 3 a.m., striking after the popcorn has been swept under the seats by the night crew. Independent to its core and featuring Austin Powers' Verne Troyer in his last role, the movie cannot be brushed aside by the barrage of blockbusters. Hipsters, Gangsters, Aliens & Geeks is the antidote to mainstream and a breakneck cure for the run-of-the-mill.
Shot in a fast-paced, classic screen-comedy style, the film is intra-dimensional, extraterrestrial and sonically grounded.
Forbidden Zone director Richard Elfman pulls a movie with the key to the universe out of his butt in Hipsters, Gangsters, Aliens & Geeks.
In the pantheon of cult movies, Forbidden Zone stands at high midnight. Richard Elfman's 1980 Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo vehicle was a one-of-a-kind film careening down on a one-way street to an oddly predestined end. On the clock of Midnight Movies, his upcoming Hipsters, Gangsters, Aliens & Geeks runs sometime after 3 a.m., striking after the popcorn has been swept under the seats by the night crew. Independent to its core and featuring Austin Powers' Verne Troyer in his last role, the movie cannot be brushed aside by the barrage of blockbusters. Hipsters, Gangsters, Aliens & Geeks is the antidote to mainstream and a breakneck cure for the run-of-the-mill.
Shot in a fast-paced, classic screen-comedy style, the film is intra-dimensional, extraterrestrial and sonically grounded.
- 8/30/2019
- Den of Geek
Richard and Anastasia Elfman are like the real-life Gomez and Morticia Addams: A spooky-ooky-kooky couple who hold elaborate dinner parties on the upper level of their home in the Hollywood Hills. (They’re also sickeningly in love!) Recently, I was lucky enough to attend one of their legendary shin-digs, where I was treated to a rough-cut […]
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- 8/20/2019
- by Josh Millican
- DreadCentral.com
Danny Elfman is a prolific composer, record producer, singer, and songwriter. He is best-known for writing the musical scores for films and has often collaborated on projects with Tim Burton. Elfman was born in Los Angeles on May 29, 1953. The first film for which he wrote the score was ‘Forbidden Zone’. This 1980 film was directed by his brother, Richard Elfman. He has since gone on to build an impressive list of credits for writing musical scores for films and television series. Here are five of the top movie scores written by Danny Elfman. 1. Batman Danny Elfman wrote
The Top Five Danny Elfman Movie Scores of His Career...
The Top Five Danny Elfman Movie Scores of His Career...
- 12/9/2017
- by Nat Berman
- TVovermind.com
Danny Elfman is a talented and famous composer, songwriter, record producer, and singer. He was born in Los Angeles, California, on May 29, 1953. He showed musical talent from a young age and spent much of his youth in the local movie theatre. The first film Elfman scored was for the 1980 film ‘Forbidden Zone’ which was created by his brother, Richard Elfman. He went on to become one of the best musical talents in the movie industry and is particularly well-known for his collaborations with director Tim Burton. Here are five of the best themes created by Danny Elfman.
The Top Five Danny Elfman Movie Themes He Ever Created...
The Top Five Danny Elfman Movie Themes He Ever Created...
- 10/3/2017
- by Nat Berman
- TVovermind.com
Tony Sokol Mar 21, 2019
You think you’ve seen one-of-a-kind movies? Banana oil! Forbidden Zone, there’s nothing like it.
The world of motion pictures is loaded with brilliant films and original visions, but few are without precedent. Forbidden Zone is a one of a kind movie that is both highly intelligent and unafraid to be broadly stupid. It mixes the most nightmarish elements of hundreds of film moments, unintentionally of course, with some of the most emotionally stirring music ever to prop up celluloid. If it weren’t for the snatches of dialogue, it might be considered the greatest prog rock opera.
Forbidden Zone is a work of pure originality. It is a fever dream from the mind of a musical interloper that has no peer. Characterizations mean nothing in Forbidden Zone. Neither does storyline or continuity. The basic laws of physics don’t apply so why should the rules of cinema?...
You think you’ve seen one-of-a-kind movies? Banana oil! Forbidden Zone, there’s nothing like it.
The world of motion pictures is loaded with brilliant films and original visions, but few are without precedent. Forbidden Zone is a one of a kind movie that is both highly intelligent and unafraid to be broadly stupid. It mixes the most nightmarish elements of hundreds of film moments, unintentionally of course, with some of the most emotionally stirring music ever to prop up celluloid. If it weren’t for the snatches of dialogue, it might be considered the greatest prog rock opera.
Forbidden Zone is a work of pure originality. It is a fever dream from the mind of a musical interloper that has no peer. Characterizations mean nothing in Forbidden Zone. Neither does storyline or continuity. The basic laws of physics don’t apply so why should the rules of cinema?...
- 7/2/2016
- Den of Geek
Curt McDowell and George Kuchar's comedy epic of oversexed sensationalists running amuck while trapped in a storm-battered house goes beyond strange. It's a legit experimental film but -- gasp! -- also 2.5 hours of hardcore porn and other forms of giddy depravity. A movie guaranteed to make conservative heads explode -- read with caution, please! Thundercrack! Blu-ray Synapse Films 1975 / B&W /1:33 flat full frame / 160 min. / Street Date December 8, 2015 / 39.95 Starring Marion Eaton, Melinda McDowell, George Kuchar, Mookie Blodgett, Ken Scudder, Bernie Boyle, Mark Ellinger, Laurie Hendricks, John Thomas. Cinematography & Film Editor Curt McDowell Makeup Mr. Dominic Original Music Mark Ellinger Written by Mark Ellinger, George Kuchar, Curt McDowell Produced by Charles Thomas, John Thomas Directed by Curt McDowell
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
*Not your usual Savant review.* As a student in the 1970s I worked as an usher at a couple of Filmex exhibitions at Grauman's Chinese. I then volunteered...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
*Not your usual Savant review.* As a student in the 1970s I worked as an usher at a couple of Filmex exhibitions at Grauman's Chinese. I then volunteered...
- 12/19/2015
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Long before he wrote the wild, dramatic score for Batman and the twisted song cycle that runs through the beloved Nightmare Before Christmas, Danny Elfman's original claim to cinematic fame was far quirkier than anything he'd ever dream up for Tim Burton: He portrayed Satan, dressed in a long-tail white tux, conducting an orchestra of goblins in a run-through of every "hidey-hidey-hidey-ho" in Cab Calloway's "Minnie the Moocher." The episode, in the campy 1980 cult hit Forbidden Zone, found the redheaded composer wiggling, shimmying and writhing as he...
- 11/6/2015
- Rollingstone.com
No film buff wants to see a promising, or prominent filmmaker pull a disappearing act a la Terrence Malick, (though it seems he isn’t keen to repeat another lapse like the one between Days of Heaven to The Thin Red Line), but whether they’re dealing with unforeseeable professional (endless pre-production woes, writer’s block) or personal issues, sometimes there is a considerable time between projects.
With John Cameron Mitchell, Charlie Kaufman, Rebecca Miller, Patty Jenkins, Kenneth Lonergan and more recently, Barry Jenkins recently moving out of the so called “inactive” period, we decided to compile a list of the top ten American filmmakers who, for the most part, we’ve lost sight of and would like to see get back in the director’s chair again. Most of the filmmakers listed below have gone well over half a decade without a substantial movement in this category. Here is...
With John Cameron Mitchell, Charlie Kaufman, Rebecca Miller, Patty Jenkins, Kenneth Lonergan and more recently, Barry Jenkins recently moving out of the so called “inactive” period, we decided to compile a list of the top ten American filmmakers who, for the most part, we’ve lost sight of and would like to see get back in the director’s chair again. Most of the filmmakers listed below have gone well over half a decade without a substantial movement in this category. Here is...
- 10/26/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Reverse Shot opens its tenth annual Halloween series with a piece on Robert Eggers's The Witch. Also in today's roundup: The New Yorker and n+1 on Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, Farran Smith Nehme on a dual biography of Marlene Dietrich and Leni Riefenstahl, Richard Elfman on his cult classic Forbidden Zone, an interview with Pedro Costa, an audiovisual essay on Chantal Akerman’s Almayer’s Folly, plus early word that Edgar Wright may direct Johnny Depp in a story by Neil Gaiman, while George Clooney may take on a screenplay written by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. » - David Hudson...
- 10/26/2015
- Keyframe
Reverse Shot opens its tenth annual Halloween series with a piece on Robert Eggers's The Witch. Also in today's roundup: The New Yorker and n+1 on Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, Farran Smith Nehme on a dual biography of Marlene Dietrich and Leni Riefenstahl, Richard Elfman on his cult classic Forbidden Zone, an interview with Pedro Costa, an audiovisual essay on Chantal Akerman’s Almayer’s Folly, plus early word that Edgar Wright may direct Johnny Depp in a story by Neil Gaiman, while George Clooney may take on a screenplay written by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. » - David Hudson...
- 10/26/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
Richard Elfman's (brother to composer Danny Elfman's) Forbidden Zone, is widely considered the most classic of cult classics. The Citizen Kane of underground movies if you will. It's a film where sexy Frenchy falls into an insane underworld ruled by a horny little king and his jealous queen. Where Chicken-boy comes to the rescue, only to have his head cut off by the soul-singing Devil himself--played by Danny Elfman and the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo. I mean, come on!
Frog butlers, topless princesses and rioting school kids sing and dance in unforgettable musical numbers by Danny Elfman, Cab Calloway, Josephine Baker and other greats.
Now Forbidden Zone is hitting shelves on [Continued ...]...
Frog butlers, topless princesses and rioting school kids sing and dance in unforgettable musical numbers by Danny Elfman, Cab Calloway, Josephine Baker and other greats.
Now Forbidden Zone is hitting shelves on [Continued ...]...
- 8/21/2015
- QuietEarth.us
Exclusive: Wilfried Van Baelen’s Belgium-based, post-production outfit, Galaxy Studios has finalised a three-film deal with filmmaker Richard Elfman (Modern Vampires).
The deal will see Elfman working with Van Baelen’s Auro Technologies, using new immersive sound format Auro-3D on all three of the films.
Richard Elfman’s first film under the Galaxy/Auro-3D deal will be a sequel to his 1980 cult hit, the musical/fantasy Forbidden Zone.
Composer Danny Elfman and actress Jenna Elfman are both attached to Forbidden Zone 2, with further names soon to be announced.
The Auro-3D format is currently on display at the Cannes Film Festival in an Auro-3D theatre specially constructed next to the Auro offices and lounge on the Hotel Majestic Plage.
“As Forbidden Zone 2 is wall-to-wall music - to be released along with a video game - Auro-3D’s immersive sound will really knock the ball out of the park,” said Elfman...
The deal will see Elfman working with Van Baelen’s Auro Technologies, using new immersive sound format Auro-3D on all three of the films.
Richard Elfman’s first film under the Galaxy/Auro-3D deal will be a sequel to his 1980 cult hit, the musical/fantasy Forbidden Zone.
Composer Danny Elfman and actress Jenna Elfman are both attached to Forbidden Zone 2, with further names soon to be announced.
The Auro-3D format is currently on display at the Cannes Film Festival in an Auro-3D theatre specially constructed next to the Auro offices and lounge on the Hotel Majestic Plage.
“As Forbidden Zone 2 is wall-to-wall music - to be released along with a video game - Auro-3D’s immersive sound will really knock the ball out of the park,” said Elfman...
- 5/17/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Richard Elfman, brother of composer Danny Elfman, is making the rounds again to get Forbidden Zone 2 off the ground and into production. The first time I saw the film was on DVD and I couldn’t believe how crazy & inventive it was for the time it was made. While I’m not sure if the film really needs a sequel, if the creator wants one, why not help?
You might remember a piece that was used in promotion for the sequel from Syfy’s special effects show Monster Man with Sota FX. I’ll include that video as well even though I don’t think it is a great representation for the sequel nor do I know if it is current since that video was from 2011 – including an end title card of “Coming in 2012″. Also, in the IndieGoGo campaign the overall look of Princess Polly is different. Richard is looking...
You might remember a piece that was used in promotion for the sequel from Syfy’s special effects show Monster Man with Sota FX. I’ll include that video as well even though I don’t think it is a great representation for the sequel nor do I know if it is current since that video was from 2011 – including an end title card of “Coming in 2012″. Also, in the IndieGoGo campaign the overall look of Princess Polly is different. Richard is looking...
- 3/20/2014
- by Andy Triefenbach
- Destroy the Brain
This week marks my third anniversary of officially writing for Slackerwood, but my first unofficial post was actually five years ago. I contributed a story about my most memorable experience at the original Alamo at 409 Colorado to the Alamo Drafthouse Blog-a-thon. The original Alamo Drafthouse closed on June 27, 2007, and was marked by spectacular signature Drafthouse events including a Big Night feast and bass-generated shaking during Earthquake.
News of the passing of cult movie sensation and Oscar nominee Susan Tyrrell -- seen above with Martin Nicholson and Richard Elfman -- served as a reminder that I also first saw "SuSu" that night. I was a fan of her bizarre performances in the 1982 movie Forbidden Zone and John Water's Cry-Baby, but was totally unprepared for both her portrayal of Aunt Helen in Night Warning and her disjointed Q&A that followed.
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News of the passing of cult movie sensation and Oscar nominee Susan Tyrrell -- seen above with Martin Nicholson and Richard Elfman -- served as a reminder that I also first saw "SuSu" that night. I was a fan of her bizarre performances in the 1982 movie Forbidden Zone and John Water's Cry-Baby, but was totally unprepared for both her portrayal of Aunt Helen in Night Warning and her disjointed Q&A that followed.
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- 6/25/2012
- by Debbie Cerda
- Slackerwood
Actress Susan Tyrrell, who was Oscar-nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role as a barfly in John Huston’s 1972 boxing movie Fat City, has died. Tyrrell was 67 and died June 16 in Austin, Texas, according to her web site. Cause of death was not reported. Born Susan Jillian Creamer, she was the daughter of a William Morris agent. Her sporadic, eclectic movie and TV career included roles in Andy Warhol’s Bad, John Waters’ Cry-Baby (in which she played Johnny Depp’s grandmother), Big Top Pee-Wee, Richard Elfman’s Forbidden Zone, Powder, I Never Promised You A Rose Garden and Islands In The Stream, plus appearances in TV series such as Wings, Starsky & Hutch, Kojak, Bonanza, Baretta and The Patty Duke Show as well as several others. In 2000 she was diagnosed with the rare blood disease essential thrombocytosis and lost both legs as a result but she continued to work periodically.
- 6/21/2012
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
I feel very fortunate that in the next few days I get to review two films that have very special meaning for me. The first is Dan O'Bannon's The Return of the Living Dead, which I'll be reviewing this weekend, and the second is Richard Elfman's Forbidden Zone. It isn't often enough that I get to write about films that truly changed me, either as a cinephile or as a human, and Forbidden Zone did a little bit of both.The film first came into my life through my obsession with The Psychotronic Video Guide, that would have been around 1999 or so. I had just moved out of my parent's house and was living in Santa Cruz, California, crashing on the couch of some...
- 5/31/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Continuing on from the start of our new weekly feature last week, rounding up the new releases coming to DVD and Blu-ray each Monday, we have a brilliant line-up of films making their way to the shelves of your local stores today, and of course the virtual shelves online.
We’re treated to a fantastic set of new films this week – some of the finest of last year – a few excellent TV shows, and a handful of classics that are being given the HD treatment, released on Blu-ray for the first time.
We’re big fans of the Blu-ray format here at HeyUGuys, and can’t recommend it enough to you. If your television has the means to play Blu-rays and you don’t yet have a player, I thoroughly encourage you to treat yourself to one at the nearest possible opportunity. I made the upgrade about two years ago,...
We’re treated to a fantastic set of new films this week – some of the finest of last year – a few excellent TV shows, and a handful of classics that are being given the HD treatment, released on Blu-ray for the first time.
We’re big fans of the Blu-ray format here at HeyUGuys, and can’t recommend it enough to you. If your television has the means to play Blu-rays and you don’t yet have a player, I thoroughly encourage you to treat yourself to one at the nearest possible opportunity. I made the upgrade about two years ago,...
- 5/14/2012
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Forbidden Zone
Stars: Hervé Villechaize, Susan Tyrrell, Gisele Lindley, Jan Stuart Schwartz, Marie-Pascale Elfman, Joe Spinell | Written and Directed by Richard Elfman
The question is when looking at Forbidden Zone where to start? I guess to say an attack on the senses would be one way to describe it when you first watch it. Putting in the Blu-Ray I will admit I was not prepared for the film and it did take some time to get used to its style. I will admit that my first reaction was that I would not like it, but surprisingly by the end of the film and on the second watch (to listen to the commentary track) any negativity was gone as I was fully in the Forbidden Zone.
In the Hercules house there is a doorway in the basement that leads to the sixth dimension, a crazy place of song and torture where...
Stars: Hervé Villechaize, Susan Tyrrell, Gisele Lindley, Jan Stuart Schwartz, Marie-Pascale Elfman, Joe Spinell | Written and Directed by Richard Elfman
The question is when looking at Forbidden Zone where to start? I guess to say an attack on the senses would be one way to describe it when you first watch it. Putting in the Blu-Ray I will admit I was not prepared for the film and it did take some time to get used to its style. I will admit that my first reaction was that I would not like it, but surprisingly by the end of the film and on the second watch (to listen to the commentary track) any negativity was gone as I was fully in the Forbidden Zone.
In the Hercules house there is a doorway in the basement that leads to the sixth dimension, a crazy place of song and torture where...
- 5/11/2012
- by Pzomb
- Nerdly
Forbidden Zone
Brothers Danny and Richard Elfman used to head legendary performance art troupe The Mystic Knights Of The Oingo Boingo, whose bizarro, overblown shows featured a whole host of twisted showtunes. When they morphed into the excellent, more managably sized, new wave rockers Oingo Boingo (best known in the UK for the theme tune to John Hughes's movie Weird Science), the Elfmans wanted to record their out-of-control live show for posterity. And that's where this 1982 curio comes in.
Filming over several months, the duo roped in as many of their fringe friends as possible – including Warhol superstar Viva, Fantasy Island star Hervé Villechaize and UK performance duo The Kipper Kids – to string together a dozen or so songs in an anything-goes fashion.
It's a strange movie, a true cult oddity and one of the last gasps of the bygone midnight movie circuit. Shot in black and white (though...
Brothers Danny and Richard Elfman used to head legendary performance art troupe The Mystic Knights Of The Oingo Boingo, whose bizarro, overblown shows featured a whole host of twisted showtunes. When they morphed into the excellent, more managably sized, new wave rockers Oingo Boingo (best known in the UK for the theme tune to John Hughes's movie Weird Science), the Elfmans wanted to record their out-of-control live show for posterity. And that's where this 1982 curio comes in.
Filming over several months, the duo roped in as many of their fringe friends as possible – including Warhol superstar Viva, Fantasy Island star Hervé Villechaize and UK performance duo The Kipper Kids – to string together a dozen or so songs in an anything-goes fashion.
It's a strange movie, a true cult oddity and one of the last gasps of the bygone midnight movie circuit. Shot in black and white (though...
- 5/4/2012
- by Phelim O'Neill
- The Guardian - Film News
Although I now look back on them with a nostalgic affection, in reality the 1980s were a grim time, filled with parachute pants, the Brat Pack and Ronald Reagan. Granted, there were a few bright spots and one of the brightest was director Richard Elfman's surrealistic 1982 freakout known as Forbidden Zone.
Perceived by many as offensive and just plain bizarre, the satirical Forbidden Zone bombed at the box office but eventually found an enthusiastic audience at midnight movies and via home video. Now, 30 years later, Elfman is preparing to return to the Sixth Dimension in Forbidden Zone 2: The Forbidden Galaxy.
The original Forbidden Zone was created by Elfman as a showcase for The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, the musical performance art collective he led with his brother, now-legendary film composer Danny Elfman. As Richard became more interested in filmmaking, he decided to capture some of the...
Perceived by many as offensive and just plain bizarre, the satirical Forbidden Zone bombed at the box office but eventually found an enthusiastic audience at midnight movies and via home video. Now, 30 years later, Elfman is preparing to return to the Sixth Dimension in Forbidden Zone 2: The Forbidden Galaxy.
The original Forbidden Zone was created by Elfman as a showcase for The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, the musical performance art collective he led with his brother, now-legendary film composer Danny Elfman. As Richard became more interested in filmmaking, he decided to capture some of the...
- 3/27/2012
- by Theron
- Planet Fury
It’s time for another update from our friends at Arrow Video, this time previewing their <ay 2012 releases which include the long-awaited Blu-ray release of the House By the Cemetary and the ArrowDrome release of The Exterminator.
The House by the Cemetery (Arrow Video) Limited Edition Blu-ray
You may have just mortgaged your life! Shock gore master Lucio Fulci’s The House by the Cemetery is one of the finest typically single-minded exercises in zombie terror. Its just a shame no-one told the Boyle family who move into a gothic style house (by a cemetery) with a bloody past and a guts spraying future, what is yet to come! You’d think they’d twig given the basement door is nailed shut that they should get the hell out. Instead they stay long enough to discover their zombified non rent-paying lodger, the cellar-dwelling, flesh-hungry Dr Freudstein and boy is he pissed!
The House by the Cemetery (Arrow Video) Limited Edition Blu-ray
You may have just mortgaged your life! Shock gore master Lucio Fulci’s The House by the Cemetery is one of the finest typically single-minded exercises in zombie terror. Its just a shame no-one told the Boyle family who move into a gothic style house (by a cemetery) with a bloody past and a guts spraying future, what is yet to come! You’d think they’d twig given the basement door is nailed shut that they should get the hell out. Instead they stay long enough to discover their zombified non rent-paying lodger, the cellar-dwelling, flesh-hungry Dr Freudstein and boy is he pissed!
- 2/25/2012
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Along with their April 2012 line-up, the good folks at Arrow Video have also released a sneak preview of their other forthcoming Spring releases – including a Blu-ray release for House By the Cemetery and the Awesome Blu-ray release of Forbidden Zone. It seems Arrow Video are on a mission to empty my wallet again this year!
The House by the Cemetery (Arrow Video) Limited Edition Blu-ray
You may have just mortgaged your life! Shock gore master Lucio Fulci’s The House by the Cemetery is one of the finest typically single-minded exercises in zombie terror. Its just a shame no-one told the Boyle family who move into a gothic style house (by a cemetery) with a bloody past and a guts spraying future, what is yet to come! You’d think they’d twig given the basement door is nailed shut that they should get the hell out. Instead they stay...
The House by the Cemetery (Arrow Video) Limited Edition Blu-ray
You may have just mortgaged your life! Shock gore master Lucio Fulci’s The House by the Cemetery is one of the finest typically single-minded exercises in zombie terror. Its just a shame no-one told the Boyle family who move into a gothic style house (by a cemetery) with a bloody past and a guts spraying future, what is yet to come! You’d think they’d twig given the basement door is nailed shut that they should get the hell out. Instead they stay...
- 1/27/2012
- by Phil
- Nerdly
That Richard Elfman - yes, the brother of Danny - was planning a return to The Forbidden Zone with a sequel to his 1982 cult hit is not news, with word of the SyFy Channel backed The Forbidden Zone 2: The Forbidden Galaxy circulating for a little while now. But with Elfman on hand to present a rare big screen showing of the original at the Morbido Festival in Mexico audiences here got a surprise treat with Elfman premiering a teaser shot specifically for the festival featuring one track from his latest foray into madness. The version screened - and now released online - features a Spanish dub for the local audience and CGI backgrounds where the finished product will have physical backgrounds but...
- 10/30/2011
- Screen Anarchy
Cashiers du Cinemart, the legendary cult movie zine that puts all other movie zines to shame, has returned with a brand new print edition that is available in a variety of formats, from an old school photocopied version to a glossy high-end print-on-demand version to an electronic Kindle edition and more.
After a four-year hiatus, publisher and editor Mike White has returned to the printed page as part of a wider “Print Is Not Dead” movement. In typical fashion of it’s earlier print editions, Cashiers du Cinemart #16 is a massive 100-plus page endeavor with contributions from numerous writers, including White himself, riffing on classic cult movies, taking apart mainstream films, analyzing obscure genres, interviewing filmmakers a ton more fun stuff.
This new print zine comes hot on the heels of the hit book Impossibly Funky: A Cashiers du Cinemart Collection, which gathered the best articles from the zine’s previous 15 issues,...
After a four-year hiatus, publisher and editor Mike White has returned to the printed page as part of a wider “Print Is Not Dead” movement. In typical fashion of it’s earlier print editions, Cashiers du Cinemart #16 is a massive 100-plus page endeavor with contributions from numerous writers, including White himself, riffing on classic cult movies, taking apart mainstream films, analyzing obscure genres, interviewing filmmakers a ton more fun stuff.
This new print zine comes hot on the heels of the hit book Impossibly Funky: A Cashiers du Cinemart Collection, which gathered the best articles from the zine’s previous 15 issues,...
- 8/22/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Glen takes a look at Danny Elfman’s finest scores, outside of his collaborations with Tim Burton…
Having covered all of Elfman’s collaborations with Tim Burton for this column towards the end of last year, a follow up has been planned ever since. And with his score accompanying The Next Three Days, recently released on DVD and Blu-ray, I thought now would be an ideal time to look at some of his finest non-Burton moments.
Forbidden Zone
This movie is best described as batshit mental, but it’s certainly an interesting watch. Elfman and the other members of Oingo Boingo were heavily involved in the making of the film, with Richard Elfman directing and Danny himself playing Satan. Elfman composed the score to be performed by his band at the time, and they work through a selection of material that shows little regard for genre convention.
Very much like the film itself,...
Having covered all of Elfman’s collaborations with Tim Burton for this column towards the end of last year, a follow up has been planned ever since. And with his score accompanying The Next Three Days, recently released on DVD and Blu-ray, I thought now would be an ideal time to look at some of his finest non-Burton moments.
Forbidden Zone
This movie is best described as batshit mental, but it’s certainly an interesting watch. Elfman and the other members of Oingo Boingo were heavily involved in the making of the film, with Richard Elfman directing and Danny himself playing Satan. Elfman composed the score to be performed by his band at the time, and they work through a selection of material that shows little regard for genre convention.
Very much like the film itself,...
- 5/23/2011
- Den of Geek
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