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 whatever language they're speaking it also makes it clear that the original spirit of lunacy is fully present.
Elfman has described the project like this:
Elfman has described the project like this:
Check the video below!Ma and Pa Kettle leave the depressed Dust Bowl with their kids, Stinky and Petunia, and drive their old jalopy down to Crenshaw in South-Central Los Angeles. Stinky is a hyper-active 12-year-old, played by a hyper-active 50-year-old; Petunia is a lumbering 13-year-old slut, played by an actress over 18 (hopefully); Ma is a corn-cob pipe-smoking inbred, and Pa is a craven, drunken carnival geek...with a bad disposition...even before his carnival job folded after the last dust storm. Together, they hope to find a better life in California. Unfortunately, the little shack they rent has a basement connected to the Sixth Dimension--a bizarre underworld, ruled by a megalomaniac midget King, his jealous Queen, and an array of fantastical creatures, the most outrageous being The Princess Polly, a man-hungry gal with a to-die-for sexy, voluptuous body and an over-sized, grotesque, cartoon-like head. Her wild get ups and show-stopping musical numbers will give Gaga a run for the money!