Tommy Turner
Also Known As: Tom Turner
Biography: 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.
Department: Acting
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Gender: Male
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The Acid King
Overview: The story of Ricky Kasso, an American teenager who murdered his friend, Gary Lauwers, in an alleged "Satanic sacrifice" during the summer of 1984.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-11-09
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Death Valley '69
Overview: 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.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Where Evil Dwells
Overview: 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.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-27
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Black Hearts Bleed Red
Overview: A stark adaptation of Flannery O’Connor’s short story A Good Man Is Hard To Find.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight
Overview: 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.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-06-10
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The Hardcore Collection
Overview: This DVD features 13 provocative short films by Richard Kern. Color & B&W film shorts with Lydia Lunch, Henry Rollins and more. Includes Death Valley 69 , The Right Side Of My Brain, You Killed Me First, The Bitches, The Sewing Circle, X is Y, Fingered, Horoscope, Submit to Me Now, My Nightmare, Manhattan Loves Suicides, Submit to Me, and Evil Cameraman. Music from Sonic Youth, Cop Shoot Cop, J.G. Thirwell, Butthole Surfers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-21
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Simonland
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Manhattan Love Suicides
Overview: A series of short films by Richard Kern: Stray Dogs, Woman At The Wheel, Thrust In Me, & I Hate You Now.
Genres: Drama Horror Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Blank City
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-06
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I Hate You Now
Overview: “I Hate You Now” is about when you’re in a relationship, and the person you’re in a relationship with starts doing everything you do. So in the film the guy has a burned up face, and his girlfriend burns her face so she can be like him. — Richard Kern
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Submit to Me Now
Overview: 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.
Genres: Horror Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Woman at the Wheel
Overview: 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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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Submit to Me
Overview: 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.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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