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The American Astronaut
Why this pick
Its stark black-and-white design, deadpan absurdity, handmade sci-fi world and lo-fi musical numbers share Forbidden Zone’s gleefully theatrical outsider energy.
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MOVIE1980 1h 14m USA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The film begins on "Friday, April 17" at 4P.M. in Venice, California. Huckleberry P. Jones, local pimp, narcotics peddler and slumlord, enters a vacant house that he owns. While stashing heroin in the basement, he stumbles upon a mysterious door and enters it, falling into the Sixth Dimension, from which he promptly escapes. After retrieving the heroin, he sells the house to the Hercules family. On their way to school, Frenchy Hercules and her brother Flash have a conversation with Squeezit Henderson, who tells them that, while being violently beaten by his mother, he had a vision of his transgender sister René, who had fallen into the Sixth Dimension through the door in the Hercules' basement.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Susan Tyrrell
Queen Doris of the Sixth Dimension
Jan Stuart Schwartz
Bust Rod, the Servant Frog
Virginia Rose
Ma Hercules
Phil Gordon
Flash Hercules
Martin von Haselberg
Harry Kipper
Hervé Villechaize
King Fausto of the Sixth Dimension
Viva
Ex-Queen
Joe Spinell
Squeezit's Father