Tommy Turner

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.

Movies for Tommy Turner...

The Acid King
Title: The Acid King
Character: Himself
Released: November 9, 2021
Type: Movie
The story of Ricky Kasso, an American teenager who murdered his friend, Gary Lauwers, in an alleged "Satanic sacrifice" during the summer of 1984.
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Blank City
Title: Blank City
Character: Self
Released: April 6, 2011
Type: Movie
In the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never come from comfort, and it was precisely those dire circumstances that inspired artists like Jim Jarmusch, Lizzy Borden, and Amos Poe to produce some of their best works. Taking their cues from punk rock and new wave music, these young maverick filmmakers confronted viewers with a stark reality that stood in powerful contrast to the escapist product being churned out by Hollywood.
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Black Hearts Bleed Red
Title: Black Hearts Bleed Red
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
A stark adaptation of Flannery O’Connor’s short story A Good Man Is Hard To Find.
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Submit to Me Now
Title: Submit to Me Now
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
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.
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Death Valley '69
Title: Death Valley '69
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Death Valley '69 was the first music video by Sonic Youth. The video features the majority of the band in various states of bloody dismemberment interlaced with live footage of the band.
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Where Evil Dwells
Title: Where Evil Dwells
Released: September 27, 1985
Type: Movie
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.
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Woman at the Wheel
Title: Woman at the Wheel
Character: Annoying Man
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: 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.
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Submit to Me
Title: Submit to Me
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
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I Hate You Now
Title: I Hate You Now
Character: Peddler
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
About a deformed guy and his girlfriend.
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Manhattan Love Suicides
Title: Manhattan Love Suicides
Character: Peddler (segment "I Hate You Now")
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
A series of short films by Richard Kern: Stray Dogs, Woman At The Wheel, Thrust In Me, & I Hate You Now.
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Simonland
Title: Simonland
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
In the unsettling, absurdist SIMONLAND, a grotesque, televangelist-style demagogue leads his studio audience and isolated viewers through a psychotic game of Simon Says with twisted results.