Who’s Chester Novell Turner? He’s a correspondence-course filmmaker who shot two homemade horror opuses at the height of the home-video revolution: 1984’s Black Devil Doll from Hell and 1987’s Tales from the Quadead Zone. Until recently, these ultra-rare, ultra-obscure titles fetched hundreds of dollars on eBay. I might feel sorry for the poor bastards who […]
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Seeking shelters
Their wish is that storm shelters had been in place four months earlier as a powerful EF-5 tornado swept through southwest Oklahoma City and Moore, killing 47 people, including seven students at Plaza Towers Elementary. Among the students who perished were their sons Nicolas McCabe, 8; Kyle Davis, 8; and Christopher Legg, 9. With […]
BREAKING: Petition drive seeks storm shelter funding
Take Shelter Oklahoma is a movement that comes four months after a series of tornadoes ripped through southwest Oklahoma City and Moore, killing 47 people, including seven children at Plaza Towers Elementary. Twisters also struck Canadian Valley Vocational Technology Center on May 31 and leveled parts of Pottawatomie County on May 19, killing two people […]
William Shatner gets prog-rocky with … Vince Gill?
Star Trek star William Shatners next music album, Ponder The Mystery, is expected out Oct. 8, his official website shows. Far out, man. Shatner wrote the lyrics and beamed aboard musicians for the prog-rock project, including guitarist Steve Vai, Mick Jones of Foreigner, Rick Wakeman of Yes, Simon House and Nik Turner of Hawkwind, Edgar […]
Mad Max Trilogy
The first film introduces future cop Mad Max Rockatansky and director George Millers violent, pedal-to-the-metal world of carmageddon. Its chase sequences are as exciting as anything the action genre had seen, and they still hold up because their influence is ever-present. While Maxs family life slows the middle, it fuels a bang-up final act of […]
