Shock-O-Rama

Shock O Rama is basically a 'twilight zone-ish' b movie. There's two stories connected by one transitional story. The connecting story stars Misty Mundae, who plays an actress trapped doing bad b movies (sound like typecasting?!?) who just wants to get away from the grind of making these b movies. She travels to an old house where she's attacked by an evil zombie. The other stories involve an evil giant brain who's trying to take over the world from a home for wayward women (sort of) and an attack on a junk yard by tiny aliens.

This movie is a great drive in movie...even if you don't know or have never been to a drive in! It's just good old fashioned fun, and well worth your money!

Brett Piper is always at his best with FX sequences and not as his best with actors or story. This film being a series of short stories, the script never really polishes any idea before moving on to the next half backed story and most of the time it's up to the actors to fill the time until we reach feature length. Bulk of the characters are the type you fear you'll be stuck next to on a long flight somewhere. FX are few and far between.

Yes they shot on film but it has a flat Saturday morning TV series, and not a good one, for kids in the 1970's look.

The performers all try to overact and the words are just padding here. It looks like every first take was printed and the only direction was make it more over the top. When you have actors who don't really have over the top to give what you get is shrill non actor yelling at each other or mugging like they are funny. They aren't.

Talk talk talk, oh here's a cute special FX shot, talk talk talk talk.

That's pretty much the way the movie goes. It seems a lazy effort from Piper who may well be exhausted from doing all those FX on most of his films himself. There just aren't enough of his charming hand made retro FX to forgive the flat talky nature of the rest of the movie. And the way the script is written, so talk heavy, that seems to have been the intention all along.

There are films of Pipers that are worth watching, I just can't put this one in that pile. Main title music by Jon Greathouse is great fun but then there is almost no score to the rest of the film. Another Piper decision? A function of no post production time? More music please especially in a drag-a-thon like this one.

Excellent send up of sci-fi, horror and exploitation films, that also cleverly parodies Hollywood movie studios and sleazy executives. If you've ever wanted to see Misty Mundae take a page out of Bruce Campbell's book, and go postal on a zombie with a chainsaw, then this is a movie for you. The effects work was quite good, and Brett Piper has shown serious growth as a filmmaker. All the genre musts are here including naked babes, and gore, but this film also featured some genuinely funny moments, such as Misty Mundae's character who was basically playing herself, getting frustrated with horny fans, and being cast in soft core B movies. Great for a Halloween watch, if you don't want anything to serious. I was pleasantly surprised by Shock-O-Rama, and I believe fans of campy movies, and The Seduction Cinema girls will be as well. Be warned though, this isn't soft core porn.

I almost caught this movie at a convention is Chicago. Then I read many glowing reviews of it on the net and decided to hunt it down. For what it is (that is a very low budget film shot in New Jersey) it's pretty remarkable. The production design and overall look of the film is excellent, the cast is good, and the story fast paced and inventive (and frequently very funny!). Although I liked the last episode least it ironically had my favorite scenes: one a sort of take-off on Poe's PIT AND THE PENDULEM and the other a wacky dream sequence that reminded me of Tim Burton. If you're a fan of off-beat entertainment I can certainly recommend this.

This is an excellent low budget sci-fi/spoof shot in the wilds of New Jersey. Actually, many of the settings look quite opulent for such an inexpensive picture. It's very well shot on film (a rare thing among lower budgeted movies now that most are being shot on digital video) and acting, photography, and dialog are of a very high caliber. Mostly it's fun because of the retro effects (which fill the movie almost from start to finish) and imaginative production designs. Also unusual is the fact that many scenes feature almost no dialog at all, notably the opening scene (with the great Erin Brown, aka Misty Mundae) and several extended and surreal dream sequences. All in all very colorful and well worth a look.