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Everything except "standard Hollywood slop".
Steve recently compiled over 400 reviews from his first zine, Slimetime, into a wonderfull book.
From the editorial to the last page Shock is a magazine with great personality. An informative source for wierd movies.
Publisher/Editor: Steve Puchalski
One issue per year, 40 black and white A4 pages.
Issue #26Actor William Atherton (Ghost Busters, Real Genius, The Sugarland Express, The Day of the Locust). Actor William Sanderson (Blade Runner, Fight for Your Life, Deadwood. Lone Wolf McQuade). Actor Joe Cortese (Death Collector, Evilspeak, American History X, Against the Ropes). Writer-Actor Eric Bogosian (Talk Radio, Wonderland, SubUrbia, Special Effects). Plus Filipino director Eddie Romero (Black Mama, White Mama, The Mad Dcotor of Blood Island). Reviews: Raymond St. Jacques in Change of Mind; The Paul Lynde Halloween Special; the powerful Black Panther documentary The Murder of Fred Hampton; Peter Fleischman's Dorothea's Revenge; Michael Parks in Wild Seed; Robert Conrad and Don Stroud in Murph the Surf; Vincenzo Natali's Nothing; Alex Proyas' Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds; Susan Tyrell in Amos Poe's Subway Riders; the South Korean A Tale of Two Sisters; Alex Rocco in Brute Corps; the wild French musical Paris-Champagne; James Darren in Rumble on the Docks; the Australian apocalyptic comedy Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em; Alistair MacLean's Puppet on a Chain; Jillian Kesner in The Student Body; the Aussie biker-cheapie Cosy Cool; Chan-wook Park's OldBoy; Undead; Beto Brant's The Trespasser; the British hitchhiking scare-film Take an Easy Ride; Sammy Davis Jr., Adam West and Christopher Lee in Poor Devil; Vincent Cassel in Jan Kounen's Blueberry; Marshall Thompson in Dial 1119; Tadanobu Asano in Last Life in the Universe; Roger Leatherwood's Usher; All This and World War II; John Farrell's Richard the Second; Lee Majors in Starflight One; Brett Piper's Bite Me!; John Huston in Momo; Lech Kowalski's Story of a Junkie, a/k/a Gringo; Festival Express; Vernon Sewell's The Man in the Back Seat; Ross Hagen in Pushing Up Daisies; Meg Foster in Thumb Tripping; the public access talent-show Stairway to Stardom; The Dean and Company Christmas Special; Miguel Angel Vivas' I'll See You In My Dreams; Troma's Tales From the Crapper; I Drink Your Blood; Eric Thornett's Shockheaded; Michael Caine in Play Dirty; Kitty de Hoyos in Adventure at the Center of the Earth; Sabu's Hard Luck Hero; Elem Klimov's Farewell [Proshchanyie S Matyoroj]; Otto Preminger's Such Good Friends; Bruce Davison in Kiss My Grits; London Voodoo; Steve Ballot's The Bride of Frank; Gilles Marchand's Who Killed Bambi?; Omar Sharif and Jack Palance in Che!; Juraj Jakubisko's Frankenstein's Aunt; Ross MunroeÕs Brewster McGee; Paul Bartel's Cannonball!; and many more. |
Issue #25 - Summer 2004Reviews include David Warner in Work is a Four Letter Word, Johnny Cash in The Gospel Road, the junkie documentary Union Square, Peter Fleischman's Dorothea's Revenge, Cirio Santiago's Fly Me, Anne Parillaud in Gangsters, Alex Cox's Revengers Tragedy, Robert Culp in the '70s TV-movie Outrage, Jan Schmidt's apocalyptic End of August at the Hotel Ozone, Samantha Eggar and Oliver Reed in The Lady in the Car With Glasses and a Gun, an erotic Tarzan double bill Tarzun And The Valley Of Lust and Tarz & Jane, Cheeta & Boy, Save the Green Planet!, Vince Edwards and Judy Geeson in Hammerhead, The Spiders in Big Commotion, Joe Brown in the '60s-musical What a Crazy World, Lesley Ann Warren in It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman, John Cassavetes in Don Siegel's Crime in the Streets, Wolfpack, J.X. Williams' Peep Show, Don Scardino and Tisa Farrow in Homer, David Cronenberg's Fast Company, the mondo documentary Brutes and Savages, The Seventh Commandment, Hunter S. Thompson in Breakfast With Hunter, Alan Rowe Kelly's I'll Bury You Tomorrow, O.J. Simpson and Cameron Mitchell in The Dream of Hamish Mose. |
Issue #24 - Spring 2004Reviews include Michael Ironside in The Last Chapter, Vic Argo, Ray Sharkey and Herve Villechaize in Hot Tomorrows, Jacqueline Bisset in Believe in Me, The Restless Ones, Mickey Rooney in The Godmothers, Patrick Warburton in The Woman Chaser, 2009: Lost Memories, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Omar Sharif in The Burglars, Right Hand of the Devil, Marie Gillain in Ni Pour Ni Contre (Bien Au Contraire), Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior, Douglas Buck's Prologue, Alex de la Iglesia's 800 Bullets, Faye Dunaway in Jerry Schatzberg's Puzzle of a Downfall Child, Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space, Zach Galligan and Bill Murray in Tom Schiller's Nothing Lasts Forever, The Boy With Two Heads, a.k.a. Chico the Rainmaker, Don Siegel's The Lineup, Robert Wagner and Mary Tyler Moore in Don't Just Stand There, Andrzej Zulawski's The Silver Globe, Ghettos Librettos: The Story Of Mexican Comic Books, Barry Newman in Fear is the Key, The Dinah Shore Portal to Hell, Lydia Lunch in Beth B & Scott B's Vortex, Peter O'Brian in The Stabilizer; Jeremiah Kipp's The Christmas Party, Doug Bradley in On Edge and Red Lines, Death Bed: The Bed That Eats, Pure S. |
Issue #23 - Winter 2003/04Reviews: Dionysus in '69, Son of Hitler, Hickey & Boggs, They Came To Rob Las Vegas, Borsalino & Co., Dirty O'Neil, The Laughing Man, Operation Lovebirds, Swap Meet, the Brazilian drug smuggling drama Hunter's Moon, Larry Cohen's Bone, Savage Abduction, Emanuelle in America, Agustin Villaronga's infamous In a Glass Cage, the Jack Nancy bio-doc I Don't Know Jack, David DeCocteau's Leeches!, Killers Three with Dick Clark, the Italian crime thriller Colpo Rovente (with David Groh!) and He Restoreth My Soul. Also, book reviews of Fear Without Frontiers, The Zombie Survival Guide, John Carpenter: Prince of Darkness, Agitator: The Cinema of Takashi Miike and the McFarland book Drive-In Dream Girls. |
Issue #22 - Spring 2003Film reviews: The Hippie Temptation, The Homosexuals, Slogan, My Best Friend's Birthday, Pepe, Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974, The Christian Licorice Store, Masterpiece, The Brute, Outback, Fruit of the Vine, Everynight...Everynight, Jigsaw, Together, Something Wild, Way Out, Born to Lose, The Last Rock 'N' Roll Movie, Dream One, a.k.a. Nemo, Eugenie...The Story of Her Journey Into Perversion, Night Magic, Who Would Kill Jessie?, The Girl on the Broomstick, Beach House, Agitator, Full Metal Yakuza, Date or Disaster, Tomorrow, I A Groupie, Rock: It's Your Decision, An Absence of Stones, The Sin of Jesus, Brainstorm, Reverend Billy, Church of Stop Shopping, Future Shock, The Seeds of Man, A Degree of Murder, Gift From a Stranger, The Warning, The Nickel Ride, Bum Runner, Highest of the Skies, The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder, The Image a.k.a. The Punishment of Anne, It's a Haunted Happenin'!, Ride in a Pink Car, Saturday Night Bath in Apple Valley, 666 The Mark of the Beast, Cold Moon, Godzilla Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack, Compulsion, The Black Bible, Shock Treatment, Hello Down There, I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse, Blade, Sunday in the Country, Meteorango Kid, Heroi Intergalatico, The Boxer's Omen, Jim Thompson's Serie Noire, Action Family, F.D.R.: A One Man Show, The Deserter, Nomads, Penny Dreadful, Tomorrow at Ten, and many more. |
Issue #21 - Fall/Winter 2002Reviews include Richard Burton and Rex Harrison in Staircase, Scott Baio in The Boy Who Drank Too Much and Stoned, Anna Karina and Serge Gainsbourg in Anna, the Vietnam documentary Winter Soldier, Sogo Ishii's Gojoe and Electric Dragon 80000V, Andrzej Zulawski's The Devil [Diabel], Marcello Mastroianni in John Boorman's Leo the Last, Paul Anka plays a teen voyeur in Look in Any Window, Angus Scrimm in Don Coscarelli's Jim the World's Greatest, the French-Canadan biker epic Hochelaga, Dirk Bogarde in Sebastian, Britt Ekland in Liliana Cavani's I Cannibali, Richard Farina's Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me, Mickey Rooney and Mamie Van Doren in The Big Operator, Penelope Speeris' Ozzfest documentary We Sold Our Souls For Rock 'N Roll, Derek Ford's Groupie Girl, Peter Whitehead's The Fall, Los Bravos in the rock-musical/comedy A Little Bit of Love, George Sanders in The Candy Man, Guy Maddin's ballet Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary, Pere Portabella's Cuadecuc - Vampir. |
Issue #20 - Spring/Summer 2002Reviews include James Coburn in Duffy, Calvin Lockhart and Jeff Bridges in Halls of Anger, Diana Rigg's rare short films The Diadem and Mini-Killers, William Smith in The Runaway, Michael Moriarty and William Devane in My Old Man's Place, Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush; Billy Dee Williams in The Take, Robert DeNiro in Jennifer on My Mind, Robert Kramer's Ice, Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel in Rhinoceros, William Klein's Le Couple Temoin, Alan Arkin in Terrence Malick's Deadhead Miles, Captain Milkshake, Jenny Agutter in I Start Counting, Chosen Survivors, Barry Gordon and Jon Voight in Out of It, Rene Daalder's Population:1, the redneck sexploitation romp Six Pack Annie, Dante Tomaselli's Horror, Kevin Spacey in Ordinary Decent Criminal, Patty McCormack in Born Wild, Santiago Segura's Torrente, The Dumb Arm of the Law, Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Pulse, Cradle of Fear, Clint Howard in Evilspeak, Leif Garrett in Skateboard; Gabrielle Salvatores' Denti. |
Issue #19 - Fall/Winter 2001Reviews include Laurence Oliver in Sun Myung Moon's war fiasco Inchon, David Essex in Michael Apted's Stardust, Nigel Kneale's 6-part anthology Beasts, Gerard Depardieu in Marco Ferreri's The Last Woman, Spike of Love, Oliver Reed and Michael J. Pollard in Hannibal Brooks, Demon Lover Diary, Alex de la Iglesia's La Comunidad, Ben Gazzara and Sammy Davis Jr. in Convicts 4, Sophie Marceau in Zulawski's Fidelity, the Mutesploitation classic Deafula, David Carradine stars in and directs You and Me, the British yuletide anthology A Ghost Story For Christmas, Jack Cassidy in the '70s TV-movie The Phantom of Hollywood, Is This Trip Really Necessary?, James Mason in Nicholas Ray's drug-induced Bigger Than Life, Glen Campbell and Joe Namath in Norwood, Jim Morrison's 'lost' film HWY: An American Pastoral, a Danish dose of Jesus porn, the XXX-rated I Saw Jesus Die. |
Issue #18 - Spring/Summer 2001Reviews include Alan Clarke's Road, Christine and Elephant, the Japanese zombie-musical-comedy Wild Zero, Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi's, Mondo Candido, Stakeout on Dope Street, Alex De la Iglesia's Dying of Laughter, Blue Murder and Who Killed Sallie-Anne?, Don Coscarelli's Kenny and Company, the brutal animated cat-mystery Felidae, Joe Don Baker and Paul Koslo in Welcome Home, Soldier Boys, Alan Garner's The Owl Service, Marjoe Gortner in When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?, Jens Jorgen Thorsen's Quiet Days in Clichy, Nicolas Winding Refn's Bleeder, Martin Buchhorn's Private Life Show, Lee Hazlewood in Smoke, Denholm Elliott in Dracula. |
Issue #17 - Fall/Winter 2000Film reviews: Synanon, The Year Of Sex Olympics, That's the Way Of The World, Avere Vent' Anni, Mitch N' Nina Explain It All For You, Whistle And I'll Come To You, Steambath, Key Witness, The Girl From Trieste, Temmink The Ultimate Fight, The She-Rat, Strangers In The City, Brawlin' Broads, Maybe I'll Come Home In The Spring, Your Three Minutes Are Up, Hanno Cambiato Faccia, The Collector, The Dwarf, Perfect Friday, Once Upon A Girl, Pearls Before Swine, Thirty Door Key, The Sicilian Connection, Gamera 3: Revenge Of Iris, Little Ayse And The Magic Dwarves, Stone/Stone Forever, Deadlock. Interviews: Paul Morrissey, Carol Speed, Philip D'Antoni. Readers reviews: Baise Moi, Dark Angel, Deep In The Woods, Flavia La Monaca Musulmana, Red Line, The Magic Garden Of Stanley Sweetheart, S.O.S. Screw On Screen, Teenage Cruisers, The Sporting Club, Three For All, Marauders, Repeats, Gimme Gimme Octopus, The Men Who Loved To Kill, Special Delivery, Twisted Justice, Magnum Killer, Strange Dead Bodies, Guru Of The Seven Cities, Trip To The Beyond, The Curse Of The Green Eyes, Beyond Terror, The Ballad Of Hillbilly John, The Imprsonator, Signpost To Murder, Rocktober Blood, The Strawberry Statement, The Odyssey Of The Pacific, Infinity, Nostra Signora Dei Turchi, Two, Buried On Sunday, Jo Jo At Gate Of Lions. Underground oddities: 23 Hours, Besotted, Song Demo For A Helen Keller World, The Screaming, The Omega Diary, Faces Of Gore 2, Reel Fear, The Girls From H.A.R.M., Brainbox. New releases: Organ, Bullet Ballet, The Gods Of Times Square, Ice From The Sun, The Nameless. |
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Issue #15 - Winter 1999/2000Film reviews: Je T'Aime Je T'Aime, Genesis, The Milky Life, Wet Dreams, The Telephone Book, The Story Of Mankind, Tomorrow Never Comes, The Devil At Your Heels, Stamping Ground, Street Of Dreems, Sex By Advertisement, Can Heironymus Merkin ever Forget..., Je T'Aime Moi Non Plus, Save The Children, Warning Shot, Japanarama Vol 2, The People Next Door, The Girl, Tard Spasm: The Extended Version, Revelation, The Prodigal Planet, When Jenny When?, Groupies, Teenager, Billy The Kid And The Green Baize Vampire, Intrepidos Punks, Maid In Sweden, Brother Theodor Speaks, Madame Wang's, Bloodbath, He Is My Brother, Chandler, Strangler vs. Strangler, Acid Delirio Dei Sensi, Super Xuxa Contra Baixo Astral, The Animal, The Girls Of The Voluptuous Horror Of Caren Black. Interview: Hugh Keays-Byrne. Readers reviews: Roots Of The Earthman, Grimm's Fairy Tales For Adults, Veruschka, Fragrant Desir, Life Size, H, Kingsgate, International Prostitution, Our Mother's House, Rio Das Mortes, Is There Anybody There?, Furious, The White Gloves Of The Devil, The Truth According To Satan, Apocalypsis Sexualis, The Deserter, Never Too Young To Rock, The Driver, Home Alone 2, Dennis The Menace, Baby's Day Out, Treasure Island The Adventure Begins, Blood Slaves Of The Vampirewolf, Dracula (1994), Sucker, The Fat Black Pussycat, At Twilight Come The Flesheaters, Straight Up, Death Drug, Homeboy. Underground oddities: Debbie Does Damnation, Pig, The Mutilation Man, Zero, Divided Into Zero, Sex Death And The Hollywood Mystique, The Hall Monitor, Evil Sister II: Bound By Blood, T-Back The Bare-Assed Carnal Knight. New releases: The Brave, The Treat, Terror Firmer, Frat House, Wadd: The Life and Times Of Jihn C. Holmes, Dirty Cop-No Donut, Half A Chance, Perdita Durango, Born To Lose, Freak. |
Issue #14 - Summer 1999Film reviews: Coming Apart, Can Dialectics Break Bricks?, Stop Calling Me Baby, Go Ask Alice, Las Adolescentes, Mushrooms, Confessions of a Teenage Peanut Butter Freak, Cracking Up, Girl of the Night, Forty Deuce, A Thief in the Night, A Distant Thunder, Image of the Beast, Apocalypse, Gimlet, The Automobile Graveyard, The Squeeze, The Legend of Nigger Charley, Figures in a Landscape, These are the Damned, Japanarama, 24 Horas De Sexo Explicilo, The Rat Savior, Smashing Time, Lessons of Darkness, Tiffany Jones, Desideria and the Dragon Ring, Book of Numbers, Butterflies, Kiss Me Monster, Angel's Flight, French Quarter, The Narcotics Story, Angst, That Most Important Thing... Love, Terrors from the Clit, La Belle Captive, Wild Hungry and Free. Readers reviews: Flying High, The Busy Body, Kleinhoff Hotel, Blinded by the Light, Don't Torture a Duckling, Hysterical, Bunny O'Hare, Rivals, Autopsy, Black Rodeo, Maslin Beach, Beyond Reason, The Killing of Satan, Road to Eden, Exhausted, Frivolous Lola, The Incident, The Conman, The Suspect, The Appointment, Cold Dog Soup, Deadly Run, The Fool Killer, Future Perfect, Calmos, Dead Kids 2, La Punition, and more. Underground oddities: Rock 'n' Roll Frankenstein, Cloven Hoofed, Dead City, Seaschell Beach, Desecration, House of Monsters, Ranko 2000, Dead Soul: A Fairy Tale, Scorpio, Amy Strangled A Small Child. New releases: Hard Core Logo, The Blackout, The Decline of Western Civilization Part III, Nirvana, Tainted, Ice Cream, Plenilunio, I Woke Up Early the Day I Died, Dogs in Quicksand, The Idiots, Airbag. A.C. Stephen aka Stephen Apostolof: Interview with this sexploitation auteur. |
Issue #13 - Winter 1998/99Film reviews: Bukowski Reads Bukowski, Angel Angel Down We Go, Ripa Hits the Skids, Doberman, The Ape Woman, Szamanka, That Man Bolt, On A Moonlit Night, Death in Small Doses, The Frightened Woman, Dirty Weekend, The Slams, Punishment Park, Do Not Deliver Us From Evil, Atolladero, Who Are You Polly Maggoo?, Pound, Medicine Ball Caravan, P.O. Box Tinto Brass, Le Secret, I Maniaci, Mr. India, Deadly Organ, Bigfoot and Wildboy Vol 2, Sweet Jesus Preacher Man, Janie, The Kids of Widney High, My Secret Life, Rabid Dogs, The Swinging Barmaids, The Private Life of Adam and Eve, Wicked Wicked, Memoirs of a French Whore, Seeds of Sin, Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharajah of Udaipur, Bluebeard, The Beach Girls and the Monster, Scarab, Horror Story, The Dion Brothers, Wacko. Readers reviews: The Mad Bomber, Garden of Torture, Black Jesus, Diary of an Erotic Murderess, Violent Bloodbath, Code of Hunting, The Sin Syndicate, The Last Experience, Pusang Item, Real Time, Libriana, Body Love, Sitting Target, Svart Lucia, Girls in Prison, Fox Hunter, Battle Cop, Acid-Delirio Dei Sensi, Wonderwall, Amazing Grace, 80 Blocks From Tiffanys, The Great Hollywood Rape-Slaughter, The Naked Ape, Vice Squad, Trick or Treat, One Dark Night, A Vacation in Hell, Someone I Touched, Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker, Violent Street, and more. Underground oddities: Rot, The Dividing Hour, Home, Dr. Benderfax, Faces of Gore, The Bluesman, Barn of the Blood Llama, Zombie Cult Massacre, Killer Sex Queens from Cyberspace. New releases: Space Truckers, Crying Freeman, Perfect Blue, Uncle Sam, Kissed, Creaturealm: From the Dead. Books: Little Joe Superstar, Meat is Murder, Schlock-O-Rama, Eurogirls Illustrated, Sex Stupidity and Greed. |
Issue #12 - Spring 1998Film Reviews: The Libertine, The Burning Hell, Cover Me Babe, LSD: Flesh of the Devil, Darker than Amber, Benny's Video, The Fruit is Swelling, The Werewolf of Woodstock, Bonnie's Kids, Evil Roy Slade, Eden and After, Some Call It Loving, Killer Tongue, The Gong Show Movie, The Kiss of her Flesh, Joanna, Twilight of the Ice Nymphs, Mystics in Bali, The Monk, Three Tough Guys, The Apple Game, Soul To Soul, God's Comedy, The Climber, Roadkill, She-Man, Sleazy Rider, Mama's Dirty Girls, How To Kill 400 Duponts, Strawberries Need Rain, Violent Playground, The Traveling Executioner, Gamera 2: Advent of Legion, Blood Delirium, Drum, Devil 666: Satan Returns, Laurin, Rosebud, Cannibal Ferox, Trekkies, The Texas Dildo Masquerade, Skatetown U.S.A., Linda Lovelace For President, Vermilion Eyes, Cop Hater, Alabama's Ghost, and more Readers' recommendations: The Lotus Eaters, Split, The Heat of the Flame, The Beast in Heat, The Devil Hunter, Monster Shark, Violated Angels, This Is Not A Test, Revenge for a Rape, Never Let Go, Play It Cool, and more. Underground oddities: Jefftwone, Me!, Mary Jane's Not A Virgin Anymore, The Necro Files, Coven, Delinquent, The Bloody Ape, Affliction, Screen Kill, Shank, Ultramegalopolis, Birdheart Pie, Tears, and more. New releases: Forgotten Silver, Screaming For Sanity: Truth or Dare 3, Shrieker, The November Men, The wax Mask, The Vicious sweet, Guilty Pleasures, Jack Frost, The Alien Agenda: Under the Skin. Books: Where is the Revolution, Mondo Macabro, The X-Rated Videotape Star Index 2, Wes Craven's Last House on the Left: The Making of a Cult Classic, Grossed-Out Surgeon Vomits Inside Patient !, Necrofile. |
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