- Courtesy Poisoned Mind Records
- Cover art for the Black Devil Doll From Hell soundtrack
Last year Chester Novell Turner, an underground horror director from Chicago’s west side who made a couple shot-on-video movies in the 80s, returned from the dead—sort of. He stopped making movies after 1987’s Tales From the Quadead Zone, and as more fans of low-budget cult films sought out his work, the rumor spread that he’d died in a car accident in 1996. Turner never actually passed away, and he remained unaware that he’d acquired a die-hard fan base for his work—both Quadead Zone and 1984’s Black Devil Doll From Hell—until Louis Justin tracked him down last year.
To prepare for tomorrow’s event we’ve got an exclusive stream of the introduction to the Black Devil Doll soundtrack, which Poisoned Mind Records mastered from Chester’s original tape for an upcoming vinyl release. Turner made the music for both of his movies with a chintzy keyboard, and though his songs share some of the amateurish messiness of his films, they’re also eerie and a little unnerving. The folks at Poisoned Mind expect the vinyl to be ready in a couple weeks—until then stream the intro track below:
