A FORBIDDEN ZONE sequel?

I'm still struggling to wrap my mind around the Repo Man pseudo-sequel... But now it looks like another twisted cult hit of yesteryear could have a sequel on the way, with Richard Elfman announcing that he's working on a sequel to his 1980 movie Forbidden Zone.

I'm not exactly sure how old this news is, but it seems like it can more than a few months old. Here's Elfman's announcement and plot summary:

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.

Daughter-in-law Jenna Elfman will do a surrealistic aerial dance routine (did you know Jenna’s a professional dancer?); I think I’ll get brother Danny to reprise his Devil role, singing a knockout version of “St. James Infirmary Blues,” and we’ll shoot the “Crenshaw” scenes in Ghana. Crenshaw will look like a cartoon version of 1910 Harlem, but everyone will be INCREDIBLE dancers and acrobats - from the Ghana National Dance Company.

The "brother Danny" is of course soundtrack composer/former Oingo Boingo frontman Danny Elfman, while Jenna Elfman is the former star of the '90s sitcom Dharma and Greg. Whether Richard Elfman gets his famous relatives to participate in the film or not, this thing sounds like it has the potential to be even weirder than the original. I'll keep you posted on any developments.


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