Here’s our dilemma: we’re the new kids on the “Horror Website” block (about 40 billion residents) and we want to make a name for ourselves. One way to do this is just stick with it. Most people bail out after a short while because it’s a lot of hard work, but we have nothing but time, and nothing to lose, so we’re not going away that easily. Second, we want to get involved with the horror genre . We already have a strong foothold in that department, but it’s still exciting when a company like POPcinema gives you a chance to review one of their movies, which makes you want to do a good job so they’ll consider you in the future.

I like a lot of POPcinema’s (EI Cinema) movies. How can you not like a company who’s labels include Shock-O-Rama, Seduction Cinema, and Retro Seduction Cinema and constantly offer us great titles like “Slime City”, “Womens Prison Massacre”, “Prison-A-Go-Go”, “Satan’s School For Lust,” just to name a few. Let’s also not forget the greats like “Spider Babe” and “Play-Mate of the Apes”!

So what is one to do when the first movie we get to review is one of our lesser favorites? With that said, Horroryearbook.com would like to introduce:

The Plan: Review the NEW movie “Shock-O-Rama” while mentioning how great POPcinema really is.

Results: Hopefully, we will be allowed to continue to review their new movies in the future and they’ll send me a free “Misty Mundae DVD 3 Pack” for MY private use. Just kidding.

Lets not get off on the wrong foot here. I didn’t dislike Shock-O-Rama, I just had high hopes and was a tad bit disappointed. Shock-O-Rama is basically three films in one. While some people may call that an anthology, I choose to call it “More bang for your buck”! If you don’t like one story you can move on with the hope the second or third may get better.

We start off at a cheesy “B” movie studio where they are trying to replace Rebecca Raven (Misty Mundae), the scream queen who made their films famous, with a fresher faced actress with bigger boobs. It seems Rebecca costs too much money and is starting to get a little too hard to please. A nasty argument ensues and Rebecca takes off for a vacation in the country. However, the studio soon discovers their new star was arrested for offering a blowjob to a cop for some marijuana a few days before shooting was supposed to begin on their new film. Withllittle time to find a replacement for Rebecca, and their new star incarcerated, the studio must pore over screener tapes of other films in hopes to find an “actress” (with big tits) to star in their new film. This brings us to our first film “Mechanoid,” a Sci-Fi film about two criminal space aliens who crash land in a junkyard on Earth while trying to escape the intergalactic police.
The junkyard owner Jedd Callahan (Rob Monkiewicz) has enough of his own troubles and the last thing he needs is a shootout with some troublesome pint size aliens. The cheap, stop animation of “Mechanoid” was fun but I found my fast-forward finger starting to get an itch (especially when I realized Jedd’s girlfriend Linda, who gets trapped in the junkyard with him, is not going to get naked.) If you find you are suffering from the same problem, I would say hold off because the end is worth it just to see the crazy robot the aliens build out of spare junk parts. Plus, you’re not too far away from seeing Misty Mundae’s cute ass and landing-strip pubic hair.

For those of you only invested in Shock-O-Rama for the nudity, don’t worry I tracked it for you. After Mechanoid is over the producers decide that Linda is not the “actress” they are looking for because she doesn’t get naked. We then catch back up with Rebecca Raven at her new country home where she has thrown away her cell phone and cut off the land line (doesn’t she know better). At the 38:50 mark she decides to take a bath, and we all wonder how it took so long to see some skin, BUT finally we’re treated to the whole package that you you come to expect from a Shock-O-Rama film. Tits, ass, and pubic hair, can I get an AMEN! Not long after Rebecca starts to shave ,she cuts her leg and and as you can guess, causes the previous owner of the house to return from the grave by accidentally completing the end of some ancient ceremony or some crap. The next 10 minutes or so is: Zombie comes back, zombie chases girl, zombie rips girls clothes off, girl chases zombie with chainsaw, chainsaw stops working an so on. All the horror movie cliches, (cell phone don’t work, running UP the stairs, girl gets naked) are there and they even turn a few on their heads. At one part, it’s the zombie who cowers in the corner, not the girl ,as she comes at him with the chainsaw. But lets stop one minute and talk about Misty Mundae’s acting. Yes, I’m going to talk about acting in a Shock-O-Rama film believe it or not.

Misty has come a long way since her past films “Mummy Raider” , “Dr. Jekyll & Mistress Hyde” & even “Screaming Dead.” It seems all she needed was one episode on Masters of Horror (Sick Girl where she is credited as Erin Brown) and the direction of Lucky McKee, to show she could do more then just get naked. After watching “Sick Girl” I actually had to check the credits to make sure it was her because she was pretty good in it. The same goes for “Shock-O-Rama.” It seems Misty took a few tricks along with her, because if you pay attention real hard (especially during the firing scene) it seems like our girl can act now. I’m not saying she is in line for an Oscar, but if you have been watching her as long as I have you can definitely see an improvement.

O.K. Where were we, oh yeah “Shock-O-Rama” the third act, seems like our B-Movie-Studio Producers have finally found the film and “actresses” they were looking for in“Lonely Are the Brain.” For the nudity watchers you have a boob and vagina shot of A.J. Khan at the 53:17 mark and a whole lot of T&A coming up in the last segment of our movie. Dr. Carruthers (Julian Wells) is conducting dream research on a household of young women which basically means she attaches some gizmos to theirs heads then has lesbian sex with them in their dreams (now we’re talking). But when one of the test subjects mysteriously dies of a heart attack Naomi (A.J. Khan) decides to investigate whats really going on and finds out things are as fucked up as they appear to be. This is what I was waiting for the entire movie. The first two segments just seem like a waste of time and they should of just scrapped them and made “Lonely Are the Brain” it’s own film. The scene where Dr. Carruthers seduces Jessica (Merev Tal) in her dream and rips her heart our causing her to die in real life from a “heartatack” is priceless, but at this point you’re already a little bored with “Shock-O-Rama” as a whole and it was hard for me to get up enough energy to be excited. “Lonely Are the Brain” features some great gore, a lot of nudity, and one of the best cheap looking B-movie talking brains of 2006. This seems like what Brett Piper was really going for with “Shock-O-Rama” and it’s a shame he wasted so much time getting there.

As a whole “Shock-O-Rama” was a great effort and if the company Shock-O-Rama didn’t already have a ton of classics already under their belts one might be a little more critical, but next time I suggest just sticking with one story because, like I said, I rather sit through 90 minutes of the brain movie instead. But once again in the great, cheap effects and T&A department “Shock-O-Rama” delivers and it’s always good to see Misty in any film. So by all means check it out, it will defiantly pass the time until EI Independent Cinema’s, Shock-O-Rama’s, Seduction Cinema’s or whom ever’s next film. One more suggestion, if this is your first Shock-O-Rama film make it a double feature with one of the others I mentioned because that my friend will be a truly great night!

Here are all the links you need:

Misty Mundae
A.J. Khan
Shock-O-Rama Trailers

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