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4F for Freaks: Miss Corkers Revenge Free FREE 4F FOR FREAKS: MISS CORKERS REVENGE PDF Leigh Hobbs | 96 pages | 01 Feb 2006 | Allen & Unwin | 9781741140910 | English | Sydney, Australia Freaks Ahoy - Leigh Hobbs - Google книги Sign In. Forbidden Zone Hide Spoilers. Merry Lunacy TonyDood 4 August I avoided this film for years even though I seek out movies that appear to have been created by people with "unstable" minds Jodorowsky, Ken Russell, Lynch and Jess Franco. The problem was the box cover art. The cartoon of Susan Tyrrell is so lurid and 80's it was really off-putting. And the promise of "offensive" humor made it sound like a low-rent John Waters movie. I've gone beyond "it's fun to be shocked" movies and demand some quality. How surprised I was when I finally gambled on this one! I had seen the last minutes on IFC or some cable station late one night while flipping channels. My first thoughts were probably like anyone's would be All jumping around singing, "The Forbidden Zone! The image rivaled Fellini! I was absolutely riveted for the entire running time. I can't think of 4F for Freaks: Miss Corkers Revenge single movie in history like this one, and I've seen some real corkers! The opening musical number, using an old recording of the song "Some Of These Days" as a background track, is eye-poppingly brilliant. I still don't know how it was done, certainly not with the skills and technology of a low-budget filmmaker in But it speaks to me on an unconscious level, dark and brooding yet fanciful and jolly the slick dancing butler who appears out of nowhere is one of the most delightfully ridiculous and satisfying surreal moments I've seen in years. I was very skeptical that 4F for Freaks: Miss Corkers Revenge momentum and creativity could be sustained, and it never did reach that peak again although the "Pico And 4F for Freaks: Miss Corkers Revenge "Witche's Egg" and Alphabet numbers come closebut it couldn't have I don't think it IS possible to sustain that level forever, it would drive the viewer away. The plot, involving a family discovering a door that leads 4F for Freaks: Miss Corkers Revenge the 6th dimension where a queen and king the unbelievably game Ms. Tyrrell who deserves an award of some kind for her brave and perfect-pitch performance, and the charming Herve, who she was apparently dating at the time? 4F for Freaks: Miss Corkers Revenge like "Alice In Wonderland. The film is creaky in places, of course The acting is by-and-large, with the exception of the foul-mouthed, shrieking, Disney-queen-from-hell Ms. Tyrell, pretty amateurish, even though everyone throws themselves into the production full-force the screen writer bravely spends the whole film running around in his underpants! But what it lacks in maturity it makes up for in execution. I kept sitting there shaking my head I don't know how much tinkering has gone on with this re-master, but the things that Danny Elfman was doing with the film score, weaving it in and out with old 30's recordings and New Wave stylings, as well as his more familiar ska style of the 80's If you are any sort of fan of Elfman's work, soundtrack or otherwise, you probably already have this music. If you're still new to it as I was, you'll become an instant fan. You cannot deny it, Elfman is a genius. Like anything that seems completely nonsensical at first example, Fellini's Satyricona lot of things in this film probably make more sense the more you delve into it. The DVD features explain that the "tone" of the film is an attempt to capture the live performance style of Elfman and his early "Oingo Boingo" incarnation, as a theatrical troupe. I have no idea who "The Kipper Kids" were but I assume audiences at the time would have recognized them. Certainly Herve was recognizable, if hardly comforting, in the weird world of this film. I take a great deal of comfort in knowing that the man at the helm of this film, Danny Elfman's brother, admits that he was not inspired to make this movie by the use of any drugs. All too often in today's world we are prone to assume that the only way someone can come up with something genuinely original, creative and surreal is to assume that chemicals are responsible. Certainly I can imagine the experience of watching this film in an altered state of mind would be a "trip. I'm sorry that the film didn't take the director anywhere, but not surprised Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. I first discovered this one during my early mania for the band Oingo Boingo back 4F for Freaks: Miss Corkers Revenge the early 's. I was expecting anything other than what I got: a live-action Max Fleischer cartoon brimming with low-budget insanity! Truly unique in every way, it is sad to see that more films like this will probably never be made again in this era of big-budget drivel and rampaging political correctness. When their bathrobe-clad daughter Susan who has been studying abroad in France, returning home with an outrageous French accent and now goes by the totally original nickname of "Frenchy" falls into the 6th dimension, all manner of looniness ensues. A tuxedoed frog-man, jockstrap wearing goons, animation that looks like it was done by an acidhead, a wonderful soundtrack that blends oddball rock and big band classics, the worst blackface makeup in film history, Squeezit "Chicken-boy" Henderson and his "sister" Renee, the funniest elementary school sequence in memory, Herve Villechaize as King Fausto, the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo and Danny Elfman as the devil himself All this and more!!! Quinoa 31 August Hunter S. Thompson once said, "It never got weird enough for me. This is truly one of the weirdest movies ever conceived, shot, executed, whatever-ed. But it's brilliance is in the fact that amid its chaos and delirious mayhem is that it's not really all that incoherent. It may not be any more or less crazy a piece of avant-garde experimentation than a super-obscure picture like Pussbucket. The difference, I think, lies in professionalism. In a small way I'm reminded of Russ Meyer; Richard Elfman is a very careful director with his camera, never making a shot unintentionally out of focus or deranged in masturbatory terms, and with his production designer if maybe it was just him and his wife who also financed the picture create madness that can't exactly be called shoddy in production value. Like it or not, and I can imagine people definitely NOT liking this, there's some art going on here. It's also the kind of movie you can't peg down. I was laughing mad throughout, almost convulsively at one other step after another in the 'plot' and yes, there 4F for Freaks: Miss Corkers Revenge one, once checked into the 'Zone' and the 6th dimension and the annals of the Queen and the family going through the zonebut is it entirely a comedy? Actually - yes, it is. But what kind of comedy? There's a sensibility that borrows heavily at times from those delightfully insane cartoons from the s and s Un Iwerks' obscurer shorts come to mindbut only at times like bits in that classroom singing old songs. There's also characters in black-face yes, black-faceobvious caricatures of black people and Jews, a little person the actor from Man with the Golden Guna guy with a giant frog head and a suit, and Satan. Enough trying to explain it- this is cult in the sense of Eraserhead or Ichi the Killer, or even one of the real old-school guards of the avant-garde like Jack SMith. You really do have to see it to believe it, and understand how much of a mix of forms and styles work its way into it, of the obvious and joyfully exaggerated "characters" just between that one Queen with the hair and the little guy it could be enough, but then what about the little guy's new French mistress? Not to mention the music, 4F for Freaks: Miss Corkers Revenge is some of the purest genius in the picture this and Blues Brothers, both good for a double feature not too oddly enough considering one specific song I need not mention here, are great wacky musicals of There's two facets: the usage of old blues and show-tunes of the 30s, almost like speakeasy songs, and then the songs of Oingo Boingo, Danny Elfman's equally weird band he had before becoming a composer. Needless to say he composes his first time here, and it's a great training ground for the likes of other great scores in Tim Burton's pictures; his one appearance as Satan is a howler, though overall he matches up to what his brother has to offer as a filmmaker of verve and daring. How much you might respond positively to the daring of Forbidden Zone will depend on how seriously you take it. I don't think I got any profound life lessons, but if you can tap into the vibe of the picture then you got it made. It doesn't get much weirder than this, and I love it for it on whatever terms it makes as imaginative low-budget gonzo comedy.
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