TALES FROM THE QUADEAD ZONE
dir. Chester Novell Turner, 1987
United States. 62 min.
In English.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11 - 10 PM
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21 - MIDNIGHT
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28 - 11 PM

3 Tales of Evil Beyond Belief

A woman reads two spooky tales to the ghost of her dead son, Bobby: the first, about a poor family who takes drastic measures to allot more food to their members; the second, about a pair of adversarial brothers and what happens when one of them dies and the other attempts to humiliate his corpse.

The follow up to Black Devil Doll from Hell, Chester Novell Turner’s Tales from the Quadead Zone has achieved a deserved cult status over the years as one of the more unsettling and esoteric horror anthologies ever assembled (some video stores refused to carry the tape because they were so uncomfortable with its lo-fi nightmare aesthetics).

Legends aside, the lean 62 minute run time packs in a breathtaking amount of creativity and ingenuity - including one of the best anthology theme songs this programmer has ever heard. The hand crafted effects and props, occasionally inaudible dialogue, warped tracking, and messy rotoscoping all combine to create a transportive, chaotic stew of SOV derangement that miraculously manages to pack an emotional punch as well.