Helena's Room appeared online in July, 2005. It draws upon any skills I may have picked up from my earlier Web endeavors on the Odd Planet. The bare-bones HTML lay-out loads easiily and quickly on many platforms. Besides, I don't want to distract you from the real star of this site: my semi-coherent blathering...I mean penetrating analysis!

Like all other sites on the Odd Planet, Helena's Room is named after a place. MirrorMask's heroine, Helena, draws the realms of Light and Dark across the walls of her bedroom. Her room is the nexus of her imagination and creativity. So it seems logical that a fan site would take its name from her room. Plus I like overextended metaphors. ;)

I'd like to thank the following people, groups and institutions for helping me make this site possible:

• Drak.net, which is the absolute shit in terms of accommodating customer service and bang for your Web hosting buck.
• Jill, for loving Labyrinth as much as I do and for being excited about MirrorMask too.
• JSK, for flippant sadism and endless smart remarks.
• The IMDB MirrorMask message board, for pointing me to some useful articles and clips.
• The Jim Henson Company, for leaving well enough alone and doing MirrorMask instead of a Labyrinth sequel.
• Labyrinth, for permanently warping my mind.
• Porter Square Books, for being a super-chouette-au-maximum independent bookstore and stocking the MM screenplay book right where my eye could catch it, thus sparking this whole interest.
• Simba, the small fur-bearing floor-matching animal, for head-butting me affectionately, sniffing my armpits and generally behaving better than Mrs. Bagwell's sphinxes.
• The Traveling Wilburys. "I don't feel nothing new, / But I feel a lot of change, / And I get the strangest feeling as I'm / Heading for the light..."
• Ultimate New Wave Party 1998, a compilation CD, for providing the soundtrack to the construction of Helena's Room.
• Finally, ultimately and always, thank you to Jareth, without whom none of this would be possible and I wouldn't be myself.

MirrorMask (c) 2004 by Jim Henson Co.
 All original analysis, commentary and art
(c) 2005-present by Elizabeth A. Allen.
Plagiarists will be devoured by shadows.
E-mail: jareth /at/ oddpla /dot/ net