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Producer Brinke Stevens returns with another installment in the Shock Cinema series. Although she provides narration over the chapter breaks, she doesn’t have any formal hosting sequences this time around. (She does appear on the opening graphic and shows up in clips from Nightmare Sisters though.) Unlike the previous two Shock Cinema Volumes, this is less a video magazine and more of a compilation tape. There are no interviews with B-Movie directors and not as much behind the scenes footage as you might expect. Instead, it’s broken up into several chapters devoted to various horror/exploitation elements.
The first (and best) chapter is devoted to “T & A”. We see scenes of Linnea Quigley, Michelle Bauer, and Brinke appearing au natural in Nightmare Sisters, as well as Linnea taking it off in clips from Murder Weapon and Deadly Embrace. The next segment is on “Blood and Gore” and it features assorted stabbings, bludgeonings, flesh rippings, and exploding heads. (Mostly from Robot Ninja.) “Trailers” contains coming attractions for Deadly Embrace, the Scream Queen documentary Something to Scream About, Murder Weapon, Robot Ninja, Skinned Alive, and Ghoul School. “Bloopers” contains outtakes, flubs, and follies from Nightmare Sisters and Dr. Alien. These bloopers aren’t exactly funny, but they do offer a tantalizing (if fleeting) taste of what it was like to be on those sets. The volume is rounded out with “Action and Special Effects”, a collection of fights, bites, slashes, gashes, shootouts, mutants, monsters, and musical numbers from the previously mentioned films.
Since it’s only drawing from a small pool of titles (mostly Tempe releases), the clips have a tendency to get a little overfamiliar as the tape goes on. (Some scenes are even repeated by the end, which tends to get a little annoying.) The short running time (under an hour) helps somewhat, though the overall sense of déjà vu sort of diminishes the fun. Even though it’s not as informative or as entertaining as the first two volumes, it’s still worth a watch just for the T & A segment alone (especially if you’re a fan of Scream Queens Stevens, Quigley, and Bauer).
AKA: Shock Cinema Volume 3.
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