Shock 'Em Dead

1991, 1080hd

Johnny's comments

Another 90s movie, today's movie is the 1991 low budget horror fantasy Shock 'Em Dead, a movie where loser pizza shop worker Martin (Stephen Quadros) quits his job to audition for a band on the make, only to be told he's the worst guitarist ever. He hits rock bottom when a strange woman offers him a Faustian bargain where he can become the greatest guitarist ever and show everyone. He takes it and gets everything he ever wanted including on-demand groupies and he takes over the band who kicked him out but he has to kill a bunch of people and feed off their energy in order to survive. His downfall happens when he lusts after the band manager (Traci Lords), who is the fiancé of one of the band and is impressed by his skill but not by him.

Pretty basic movie, very B-grade and low budget, so it's a bit clunky and there's a bit of nudity from a number of actresses thrown in but the credits are terrible so I had to do a bit of work just to get some of the names and still couldn't work out some. I've had this movie lying about for a while, I think I got spooked by how bad the credits were but after capping a bunch of sporadically credited Hong Kong movies, might as well just put it out there and hope I'm right.

Miyako Kirksey, Jacki Moen, Gina Parks, Karen Russell film clips (samples below)

Kirksey

Moen

Parks

Russell