Richard Elfman, mastermind of the cult classic Forbidden Zone, is happy to discuss a film he made more than 30 years ago now and one that has its origins roughly a decade before that. Most could have heard a bowling pin drop at the film’s release at the turn of the 1980s, but today the underground effort has a sizeable cult following.
And why wouldn’t it? It has everything one could want in a film: a midget acting legend, beautiful women in various states of undress, wafts of gender dysphoria, and the director’s wunderkind brother singing “Minnie the Moocher” as the devil himself.