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Forbidden Zone featured Matthew Bright's first work on film, and his only work as an actor ( under the name " Toshiro Baloney ").

A founding member of the Mystic Knights, Bright later became a screenwriter and director in his own right.

Bright's credits include Freeway, Ted Bundy, and Tiptoes.

Bright and director Richard Elfman's only dispute during the screenwriting process was over a scene in which his character, Squeezit, was originally to have been beaten up for eight minutes and having the walls wiped with his blood.

Another scene cut from the script would have had Squeezit being castrated.

According to Bright, " I didn't have any sense of limits or balance then, at the time, I ... you know, I was just, didn't know what I was doing.

I needed reining in.

" During filming, Bright was sitting on the set in costume when a lighting stand fell onto his head, cracking his skull, and he had to be rushed to the hospital.

When Bright came back to work the next day, he had a mild concussion and whiplash, but he continued with filming.