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List Price: $19.99 | | Label: E.I. Independent
Salesrank: 51291
Released: September 5, 2006 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted) Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
When popular horror actress Rebecca Raven (M. Mundae) gets the axe from the ‘B’ movie studio that made her a household name, she travels to the country for some rest and relaxation…and a bloody confrontation with a flesh-starved zombie hungry to bite off more than it can swallow. Meanwhile, the frantic studio executives must rummage through past productions to find a sexy new star for their next film, and they come across two fright flicks that may offer a solution. Mechanoid features tiny, killer aliens – on the run from intergalactic police – that crash-land in a New Jersey salvage yard and battle its pissed-off proprietor with a 50-foot-tall creature borne of scrap metal and junked parts. In Lonely Are the Brain, an over-sized, under-stimulated hunk of evil gray matter experiments on beautiful young women for the sole purpose of experiencing human sensual pleasure. Does either film star the next "Rebecca Raven," who could soon be nothing but zombie left-overs?
Shock-O-Rama Reviews:
the best Shock-O-Rama Cinema film ever made 
2008-04-13 - Good acting, good cinematography, good story. Shock-O-Rama is a fun, sexy, and gore filled spoof of E.I. Independent Cinema's films. A must see for horror fans.
So very, very bad, and yet so watchable. 
2007-12-20 - Shock-o-Rama (Brett Piper, 2005)
Brett Piper is perhaps best-known for being the mind (and I use the term loosely) behind A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell. That may have to change, because Shock-o-Rama is simply more of everything that movie was. Not necessarily better, but certainly more.
This straight-to-video cheapie is actually comprised of three short films (presented in a manner more befitting a sampler of the studio's offerings than an anthology film). The frame story, "Zombie This," features B-movie actress Rebecca Raven (Erin Brown, better known as softcore adult star Misty Mundae), who is tired of making B movies and just wants to get away for a while. She buys a lovely suburban home that just happens to have a zombie living in the basement. Meanwhile, the guys at the studio are looking for new talent, and so they screen a couple of movies with prospective Rebecca Raven replacements in them-- "Mecharachnia", an odd little flick about tiny aliens, and "Lonely Are the Brain", which has to do with aliens and sexual goings-on in a sleep clinic. (Yeah, it really is as weird as it sounds.)
Let's be frank-- the main reason you're watching this is that Erin Brown and "Lonely Are the Brain" stars A. J. Khan and Julian Wells are getting naked. They don't do so nearly often enough, however, to keep the interest of the more prurient-minded audience for this (and Mecharachnia female lead Caitlin Ross bares nothing more than a shoulder). If you look at it more as a trip down a very disillusioned version of memory lane, you may get slightly more enjoyment out of it; the awful special effects are actually kind of fun now and again. The acting, however, is atrocious, even when you put it up against that to be found in bad fifties B-movie horror specials. That said, the over-the-top nature of this whole mess makes it fun enough that it's worth having on in the background at the next party you're having where everyone's planning on getting really drunk. * ½
Sweet! All around! 
2007-09-10 - This movie is separated into a few different story lines and cleverly so. Rebecca Raven (Misty Mundae-Yum) is a B actress who wants a meaty part and winds up losing her job. Her boss needs to find a new actress who isn't afraid to show her goods. So he begins reviewing tapes-these are the separate storylines.
The first takes place in a junkyard where an alien space craft lands and dukes it out with two lovers on the outs with hilarious results.
The second takes place at an isolated cabin where Rebecca is hiding out. She resurrects the corpse of a cultist. There is plenty of nudity and gore and humor in this section. Misty Mundae is a beauty that has that girl next door quality.
The last takes place at a house where a group of women are having their dreams studied and they start dying off. AJ Khan stands out and not just because of her good looks.
I don't want to give away too much other than to say that this movie is cheesy and definitely a B movie with an A+ grade. I enjoyed it whole heartedly. This is not academy award material but good fun.
An Alien, a Zombie and an Evil Brain. And a Weedwhacker! 
2007-04-09 - This is director Brett Piper's third movie for the Shock-O-Rama studio, and once again he employs the wonderful Misty Mundae in a prominent role. Here, she plays B-movie actress Rebecca Raven. Tired of the movie-spoof-nudie- fests that her films are, she craves something more from her acting career and decides to leave the studio. Meanwhile the studio executives are equally tired of Rebecca's tantrums and have decided to trade her in for a younger model. Unfortunately for them, this (unseen) hottie has got herself into some rather intimate trouble with the police. With production about to start on the studio's next lowbrow production, the search is on for a new actress to take Rebecca's place.
This is the glue that holds this three-story slice of comedy/sci-fi/horror in place. The studio executives (David Fine and Michael Thomas) watch a couple of videos looking for their new talent and we watch along with them.
First up is `Mecharachnia' in which a bickering couple (Rob Monkiewicz and Caitlin Ross) are holed up in their junkyard while a Gremlin-like space alien tries to kill them. The level of special effects in this segment is displayed at the outset with a space chase that wouldn't look out of place in `The Clangers'. The story itself is a little plodding because of its single location, and the constant arguing between the lead characters is more grating than humorous. This is a story that needs to be fleshed out. Our studio execs think so too, because this video contains no nudity.
Of the three stories on display here, the most interesting, both visually and in terms of inventiveness is `Lonely Are the Brain' which features Seduction Cinema regulars A.J. Khan and Julian Wells. In this segment, the inmates at a sleep therapy clinic are treated to dreams full of sex and violence. The dream sequences are superbly realized and would not look out of place in a more upmarket movie. Strangely, Brett Piper, in his director's commentary, says that this story is his least satisfying part of the movie. For me, it's the most accomplished segment.
And what of Rebecca Raven? Having been turfed out of the studio, she decides to have some quality alone time in a creepy house in the middle of nowhere. After a bath time shaving accident (her legs in case you were getting too excited), the rickety plumbing allows the bloodied water to seep into the ground and, lo and behold: zombie! After her years in lowbrow horror, Rebecca is able to deal with the situation. Hiding in the woodshed, she sees a chainsaw . . .
Talk about life imitating art. At one point, a studio executive mentions that they own the name Rebecca Raven and that she wouldn't be able to use it. After Misty's departure from the Seduction Cinema fold, her subsequent films (`Sick Girl' and `Shadow: Dead Riot') have her billed as Erin Brown. Misty's segment here is great fun. She sends up her own career, B-movies in general and her fans ("Pathetic pimple-faced virgins sitting in their mummy's basement in front of the t.v., remote in one hand . . . ", well I think we can guess the rest!).
So, `Shock-O-Rama' is certainly a must-have for Misty Mundae fans. If you enjoyed Brett Piper's other films on this label (`Bite Me!', another comedy horror, or the slightly darker `Screaming Dead'), you'll probably enjoy this. You'll also want this if you follow Julian Wells and A.J. Khan who both turn in excellent performances.
Pretty darn good... 
2006-10-15 - ...the cover come on, I could not say no to that. Well it is about three tales that end up being linked to one story. There's a story about a zombie, one about an alien, and another about a brain. They are all interesting and the way they linked them was interesting too. I didn't find myself bored with this one at all, it has a little bit of everything. Well done. I would recommend this one.