Woodyanders Chester Novell Turner, the fiercely independent and idiosyncratic Do-It-Yourself cinematic auteur who previously blessed us with the immortal "Black Devil Doll from Hell," returns for his second (and alas final) feature with this exceptionally inept horror anthology clunker. A loopy mother (essayed with an appealing lack of subtlety by Shirley Jones) reads a couple of bizarre stories to the ghost of her dead son. First yarn, "Food For?" - Hunger takes a bitter toll on a dirt poor white trash family. This outing boasts a gloriously ridiculous massacre and one hell of an idiotically abrupt ending. Second anecdote, "The Brothers" -- Sibling rivalry takes a turn for the super twisted when bitter loser Ted (a lame lead performance by Chester's real-life brother Keefe L. Turner) steals the corpse of his recently deceased and much more successful brother Fred so he can get the last laugh by humiliating the dude by dressing him up in a clown outfit and burying him in the basement of his house. This extremely drawn-out tale offers the single most sorry and unscary clown in horror movie history (the bozo's electronically distorted voice renders everything he exclaims almost impossible to understand). The wrap-around segment reaches its own grim and tragic conclusion complete with a spectacularly sidesplitting sequence of clumsily staged domestic violence. Better still, hardcore aficionados of choice crappy celluloid swill will also relish Turner's slack (non)direction, the plodding pace, a monotonous synthesizer score, the ugly shot-on-video cinematography, some shoddy gore, the tin-eared dialogue, the chintzy (far from) special effects, the hopelessly lousy acting from a pitiful no-name cast, and the uproariously atrocious theme song that's sung and written by Chester and Keefe. An absolute cruddy hoot.

Zbigniew_Krycsiwiki Chester Novell Turner returns from (or to?) Black Devil Doll territory with this anthology, which barely even qualifies as an anthology, as the framework apparently counts as one story, and there are only two stories presented.Shirley Jones returns as well to play a woman haunted by her dead son's invisible ghost. She reads him a pair of stories from a book, the first involves a hillbilly killing his family, off-screen, in order to eat their sandwiches at dinnertime. Or, at least she starts to tell him the story. Turner seemingly either ran out of money, or interest in it, because crummy intertitles abruptly finish the tale for her, and the audience, after a short run time.The second is about a guy who tries to bury his dead brother under his house. For some strange reason, he feels compelled to shout profanities at the dead body before dressing him as a clown and digging the grave. For some even stranger reason, being dressed as a clown somehow reanimates his brother's corpse, the two men battle it out in the cellar, while dead clown brother recites from cue cards lines of dialogue, which is then heavilly distorted to make it unintelligible.That is the extent of the stories read by this woman. The third tale is, one supposes, the story of her husband coming home and whacking her over the head with the book from Hell, before getting himself shot and killed by her.Slightly less annoying than Novell's earlier Black Devil Doll From Hell, and not quite as technically inept (we don't hear high pitched buzzing noises on the soundtrack this time around) Truthfully, the dead clown brother segment wasn't bad, in a zero-budget, late night cable television sort of way, but I doubt I could endure this a second time.The closing credits read: "Tales from the Quadead Zone will return", implying that a sequel might emerge, which, thankfully, never happened.

HumanoidOfFlesh "Tales from the Quadead Zone" is an ultra-cheap horror movie/oddity shot on video from Chester Novell Turner,the man behind "Black Devil Doll from Hell".Turner is an enigmatic man.He was born in 1950,made his first feature film "Black Devil Doll from Hell" in 1984 (possibly in the Philadelphia area),made "Quadead Zone" three years later and supposedly died in a car crash in 1996."Black Devil Doll" star Shirley Jones reads her deceased son Bobby creepy tales from the book called "Tales from the Quadead Zone".The first one involves mass murder in the family of rednecks and the second one involves ghostly clown.After bloody shooting spree fat redneck dies on a gas chair(?)."Tales from the Quadead Zone" is gorier than "Black Devil Doll from Hell",but no less amateurish.There is pretty gory stabbing and suicidal throat slashing.Unforgettable and absurd "Tales from the Quadead Zone" is a must-see for fans of Z-grade trash.6 out of 10.

Alan Fare C. M. Turner did it again with TALES... and this time it was even better! Rather then try to carry the entire running time of a movie by holding onto one story, Mr Turner throws out four stories to make it more interesting (?). Shirley Jones returns as the mother of a dead son who returns from the other side with a book, TALES FROM THE QUADEAD ZONE. As she reads the stories to him they come to life on the screen. You just have to see it to believe it but this is one feat to ever make it into the public market. I am a die-hard bad movie enthusiast and I love this flick so if you don't like it, don't say I didn't warn you.