Houston Internet musical "Horrible Turn" debuts with KTRK 13 cameo

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The Houston shot Internet musical Horrible Turn has finally hit the Web and it is amazing. 1560 The Game KGOW program director Chance McClain (one of the folks behind the project) gave us a preview a few weeks ago. He told us there was a celebrity cameo from CBS sports guy Spencer Tillman, but he did not tell us there was a KTRK Channel 13 manager acting too! More on that below...

This movie is a mixture of Grease, math geeks, Prodigy mixed in with evil villains. If you are a fan of the Dr. Horrible series with Neil Patrick Harris, you will recognize this as a prequel (and it will probably make even more sense). But don't worry, I've never seen Dr. Horrible and was still laughing out loud (with the movie, not at it). I will go watch the Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog series now because I enjoyed Horrible Turn so much.

McClain and partners did an amazing job on the production of the movie. This is top notch for a fan made film. The songs are great (and I am no musical fan), the story is good, jokes funny all mixed in with good acting and singing.

But for me there was a personal connection.  Within the first 10 seconds of the movie there was my former abc13 boss playing a news anchor. That's right KTRK 13 Special Projects Executive Producer Wendy Granato opens the film reading the news! Hey channel 13, if you ever have an anchor out sick, just go look in the special projects department for a fill in! (PRESS PLAY ABOVE TO IMMEDIATELY SEE HER PERFORMANCE)

Hopefully the Houston media (and others) will start featuring this film and expose it to more people. The filmmakers' work should be applauded.

http://www.horribleturn.com/

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