Mary Scheer

The setting is Carpathia. The year is 1851. Elvira's dreams of performing in the Parisian Revue, "Yes I Can-Can" are put on hold when she accidently winds up in a mysterious, medieval castle inhabited by the bizarre and sinister Lord Hellsubus. (The Elvira Movie Company)

Hughes's last short, Ding Dong, is about two lesbian door-to-door cosmetics saleswomen who butcher their clients after giving them a final makeover. (Filmmaker Magazine)

Composed of footage from long-running, popular Japanese game show Takeshi's Castle (1986) featuring Takeshi Kitano, the audio has been over-dubbed and altered in a comical manner, similar to "Kung Pow: Enter the Fist", "Samurai Pizza Cats", or "What's Up, Tiger Lily?"

A rookery of penguins with attitude -- leader Skipper, brainy Kowalski, loony Rico and young Private -- in Central Park Zoo embarks on what it sees as a series of strike-force missions until confronting an unwelcome challenge to its dominance from a new zoo resident: Julien, King of the Lemurs, in a sequel to the hit animated movies. (imdb)