Reminds me of Urinetown.
Check out the trailers for this one at YouTube:
+1 That’s what bothered me most about the OP. I can accept an insanely contrived plot, but at least it should be logically consistent!
According to their Wikipedia entry, they were in Forbidden Zone, so it probably is them.
And one of them is married to Bette Midler. I didn’t know that.
I remember being somewhat bemused by the synopsis for “Meet the Feebles”.
That’s, uh, a rather sparse rendition of what occurs in that movie. :eek:
What was the synopsis, “an X-rated Muppet Show”?
I showed The Forbidden Zone at one of my Bad Film Festivals, and my wife begged me to turn it off during the opening credits. She was outvoted by everyone else, who elected to see some of the actual movie, but they agreed five minutes into it. I’m the only person of my direct acquaintance who I know has, for a fact, watched this film all the way through.
Added: I’ve seen The Human Centipede, too, but I personally know one other person who’s seen that one.
My daughter just learned last week that I saw this, and it freaked her out.
So you got to see the, er, the naked princess. Who goes through the whole film topless! And looks mighty fine too.
I got my copy from, of all places, Rifftrax:
http://www.rifftrax.com/ondemand/forbidden-zone-vod
They don’t actually riff it - it would be just Mike going “wah? wah? am I seeing this?” - and it’s worth watching at least once. Or several times. If you’ve ever wanted to see a topless lady being molested by a man dressed in a papier mache toad mask, it’s your film.
Odd, Not Particularly Amusing But Nonetheless Odd Trivia Fact: Lead actress Susan Tyrell eventually had to have both legs amputated below the knee due to a rare blood disease!
You know, someone could start up a thread called “naked women who appeared in only one film, naked, but left a huge impression on the audience”, which would consist of the naked princess from Forbidden Zone, the bathtub lady from The Shining… (mind goes blank) the two bathtub ladies from The Shining…
…the naked space vampire in Lifeforce,…
A Boy and His Dog, starring Don Johnson.
I think it was longer and more specific.
That was Mathilda May - but she was in lots of films, and naked in lots of films as well. A kind of French version of Jenny Agutter.
Back to the original topic, I remember Channel 4 in the UK once showing a censored version of W R: Mysteries of the Organism, which was spoken of in hushed tones at the time because it had an erection in it. It’s broken into a series of sections, one of which involves a woman making a plaster cast of a man’s willy, and it’s one of the few Yugoslavian art films with an erection in it to have either inspired a Kate Bush song, or to have been inspired by the same thing that inspired a Kate Bush song. Of course, nowadays basically every film is wall-to-wall erections, and they’ve lost their power to shock (erections, that is, not films). Heck, people today even have erections in breakfast cereal. Quoth Wikipedia:
“(in one section) poet and performance artist Tuli Kupferberg of band The Fugs, dressed as a soldier, parodies war and the sexual nature of man’s fascination with guns by stalking affluent New Yorkers on the street and masturbating his toy rifle. As part of the climax of the film, the gun masturbation is intercut with other orgasmic sequences. This segment highlights Reich’s ideas that sexual frustration and violence are connected.”
Features an early appearance by Betty Dodson. Remember Betty Dodson? She was a kind of more wholesome Lydia Lunch / Annie Sprinkle from the days of video art and even before then, before the internet. Remember Lydia Lunch? Remember Annie Sprinkle? Re:Search? Throbbing Gristle? No? Coil?