Tommy Turner

Acting

Tommy Turner

Tommy Turner is considered a key figure of the Downtown No Wave and Cinema of Transgression movements. While working days as a genetic research scientist and nights as a bartender at the Peppermint Lounge, the New York native rose to prominence through his zine Redrum and collaborations with Richard Kern and David Wojnarowicz.

Known For

The BlobThe Blob · 1988
The Blob
★ 6.91988
MovieHorrorScience Fiction
In Arborville, California, three high school students try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches.
Submit to MeSubmit to Me · 1985
Submit to Me
★ 5.21985
MovieHorror
Cinema of Transgression pioneers and participants (Lydia Lunch, Lung Leg, Nick Zedd, etc.) perform a series of acts as they submit to director Richard Kern's camera. Originally created for DTNY acid parties; Submit to Me was eventually edited down to 10 minutes and given an accompanying score.
Woman at the WheelWoman at the Wheel · 1985
Woman at the Wheel
★ 6.71985
Movie
A woman takes each of her boyfriends - one poor and one rich- for a drive in her new car. Each argues with her and insists on taking the wheel. She beats one of them up, before crashing into a group of youths and, finally, a wall.
Submit to Me NowSubmit to Me Now · 1987
Submit to Me Now
★ 5.01987
MovieHorrorMusic
Oddballs dancing, leering at camera, guy shaving a nontraditional part of his body and man ripping his own throat out, woman stabbing herself to death.
The Dominatrix Sleeps TonightThe Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight · 1984
The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight
1984
MovieMusic
A gang of leather-clad, powerful women take over a traditionally male domain, and hairspray, eyeliner, and bare flesh are on full display in Beth B’s music video for the Arthur Baker–produced club hit from synthpop band Dominatrix. Banned at the time of release, it was acquired by The Museum of Modern Art.
Where Evil DwellsWhere Evil Dwells · 1985
Where Evil Dwells
★ 5.61985
MovieHorrorThriller
Loosely based on an infamous 1984 Long Island murder case involving Satan-worshiping, teenage drug freaks (Knights of the Black Circle), David Wojnarowicz and Tommy Turner’s Where Evil Dwells is a low-budget D.I.Y. movie that walks the jagged lines between splatter flick, experimental film and transgressive art. The original footage was destroyed in a fire and the only footage that survived is this 28 minute preview that was put together for the Downtown New York Film Festival in 1985.
Black Hearts Bleed RedBlack Hearts Bleed Red · 1992
Black Hearts Bleed Red
★ 4.71992
MovieHorror
A stark adaptation of Flannery O’Connor’s short story A Good Man Is Hard To Find.
Red Spirit LakeRed Spirit Lake · 1993
Red Spirit Lake
★ 5.71993
MovieHorror
After a vengeful sorceress is tortured and killed by a corrupt industrialist looking to harness the spectral powers of Red Spirit Lake, her niece arrives in snow covered Angel Falls to settle her aunt's estate.

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