Forbidden Zone

This movie has long been staple of the LA midnight movie scene, but difficult to get copies of it to watch until an official version was made available for download and streamiling. So I was excited to check out what for so long was just an insane poster. Well, it was worth the wait. Fair warning, to say that the film is offensive is a massive understatement. It starts out with blackface and just goes downhill from there. It is full of student film / art house / Warhol Factory vibes. It is intenionally low production and vulgar, yet full of sophistication. It is hard to tell where it is simply offensive and where it is a self-referential joke mocking the audience's reactions. There is no plot that I can describe. The acting and dialogue is intentionally terrible. There are boobs all over the place for no intelligable reason. But there is also painstacking animation and set design. There are throw awar segments that represent hours if not months of painstakcing manual labor. All of this was done with volinteers and imagination and no special effects of CGI. You can see the early visual language and music of what would become familiar in future Elfman works. Is it genius? Yes. Is it good? No.