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   Forbidden Zone is the hilarious brainchild of Danny Elfman, starring Danny himself as Satan (no leap of imagination there). Danny Elfman’s early career with The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo conveniently provided the soundtrack for the movie, and what a soundtrack it is!!! Being that it’s a comedic musical drenched with Yiddish humor just makes it that much more hilarious. 

      Frenchy (a foreign exchange student, maybe?) is sucked down a hole in her families basement and ends up in the Sixth Dimension ruled by the evil Queen Doris and her perverted staff of dancing frogs and the weirder-than-weird performers known only as the Kipper Kids (one of whom is actually married to Bette Midler). 

      Luckily for Frenchy, King Fausto of the Sixth Dimension (Herve Villachaiz, “de plane, de plane!”) has fallen for the young French girl, much to the Queen’s dismay. Frenchy and the Queen duke it out for the coveted position of least hated among the inhabitants of the Sixth Dimension. 

      With its cheap sets and incredible overacting, this black-and-white yet still somehow colorful movie is a great find for any cult classics fan.

     Liquid Sky is without a doubt the most colorful movie I’ve ever seen. Besides being shot in what I like to call “psychedeliscope”, it also cashed in on the whole luridly multicolored non-gender-specific early 1980s. 

      Margaret is a fashion model and lives in a penthouse in Manhattan. She also lives with Adrian, her heroin-pushing lesbian girlfriend. One day, an alien spacecraft the size of a dinner plate lands on their penthouse roof searching for heroin but instead finds something better. That something is a chemical reaction in the brain produced during orgasm that is similar in chemical composition to heroin. Unfortunately, it kills its victims when it shoots out of their heads in the form of glass-like arrows when they reach orgasm. 

      This alien has chosen Margaret as its tool to obtain this chemical.  I guess one would naturally expect a sexy fashion model would have many orgasms, even though she never does because she’s either being raped or somehow having sex that she’s absolutely not into. 

     Since everyone she has sex with keeps dying, she decides to have sex with her biggest fashion rival Jimmy, who seems oddly feminine (even for the eighties). This is probably because actress Anne Carlisle plays the roles of both Margaret and Jimmy. 

      This film is so bizarrely colored that one must assume that it was only meant to be watched on some really strong LSD, I know I did. From the unbelievable makeup (even for the eighties) to the rainbow vision that results from seeing things from the aliens’ perspective. 

      Take more color than most televisions can handle and an electronic soundtrack that could literally drive someone insane and you get one of the most notorious movies of the whole cult film phenomenon. In fact, the director Slava Tsukerman was reportedly exiled from Russia for making weird movies.  I don’t doubt that this could very well be true.

    Wow, what can one say about Nekromantik? Being a cult movie master, I thought I had seen it all… I was so DEAD wrong. Nekromantik is a story about a little German guy with an unpronounceable name who has a job as part of a cleanup crew for grisly car accidents. 

      One day he happens upon a very very rotted corpse in a ditch and brings a piece of his job home to his necrophiliac girlfriend as a “gift”. They proceed to have repeated intercourse with it until the little German guy gets fired from his job and his girlfriend decides that he can no longer provide her with fresh (or not-so-fresh) playthings, so she runs off with their “new friend”. 

     Unable to cope with his girlfriend’s betrayal, he seeks to satisfy his carnal pleasures among impatient but creative prostitutes, only to find that he cannot achieve any pleasure at all… at least with anything alive. For a cheap foreign horror film, the acting is actually not that bad, and for those who crave shock value, this is definitely the movie for you.  I actually found this movie to be oddly very artistic and had a surprisingly cool original soundtrack.  It isn’t for everyone, but what is?  I personally loved it.