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SHOCK CINEMA
Your Guide To Cult Movies, Arthouse Oddities, Drive-In Swill, And Underground Obscurities!
Biannual Fanzine from United States

- First issue: 1992
- Everything except "standard Hollywood slop".
- From the editorial to the last page Shock is a magazine with great personality. An informative source for weird movies.
- Before Shock Cinema Steve Puchalski was the creator of Slimetime. The reviews from that zine can be found in a wonderful book with the same title.
- Publisher/Editor: Steve Puchalski
- One issue per year, 40 black and white A4 pages.
- Website: www.shockcinemamagazine.com

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CONTENTS: 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023

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Issue 23
Winter 2004

Interviews with Fred Ward (Southern Comfort, Henry and June, Tremors, Two Small Bodies), producer Igo Kantor (Head, Easy Rider, Kingdom of the Spiders), David Carradine (Deathrace 2000, Kill Bill), AIP ad man Milton Moritz and way-weird character actor Bill McKinney, best remembered as the mountain man who gives Ned Beatty a rough time in Deliverance.
Reviews: 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 2003

Exclusive interviews with: Actor M. Emmet Walsh (Blood Simple, Blade Runner, Straight Time, The Jerk), Actor Nick Mancuso (Ticket to Heaven, Stingray, Under Siege, Rapid Fire), Actor Bradford Dillman (Piranha, Compulsion, The Iceman Cometh, The Swarm), Cinematographer Michael Chapman (Taxi Driver, Hardcore, The Last Detail, Raging Bull).
Film 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 2002

Interviews with actors Malcolm McDowell and Kurtwood Smith, cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, and blaxploitation writer-director Oscar Williams.
Reviews 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 2002

Interviews with actors Michael Moriarty, Keith David and Joe Turkel, screenwriter W.D. Richter, and exploitation auteur Lee Frost.
Reviews 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 2001

Interviews with actors James Remar, Don Gordon and Jared Martin, plus screenwriter Lorenzo Semple, Jr.
Reviews 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 2001

Interviews with character actor Victor Argo, actor/writer/producer Jesse Vint and director Kinji Fukasaku.
Reviews 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 2000

Film 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.

Issue 16
Spring/Summer 2000

Interviews with Julius W. Harris, '70s actress Marilyn Joi, Sid Haig, and director Michael Campus. Reviews include William Girdler's The Zebra Killer, Of Freaks and Men, the Soviet children's fantasy Kingdom of the Crooked Mirrors, Nigel Kneale's The Stone Tape and The Woman in Black, Ken Russell's Mindbender, Jerry Lewis in The Jazz Singer, the Beatnik crime-fest The Moving Finger, Tuesday Weld in Frank Perry's Play It As It Lays, Tom Courtenay and Candice Bergen in The Day the Fish Came Out, BBC's controversial Ghostwatch

Issue 15
Winter 2000

Interview: Fred Williamson.
Film 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 1999

Exclusive interviews: Paul Koslo and Russ Meyer starlet Haji.
Film 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 1999

Exclusive interviews: Don Stroud and Russ Meyer.
Film 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 1998

William Smith: Interview with the legendary actor.
Film 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.

Issue 11
Fall 1997

Film Reviews: They Call Her One Eye, Vigilante Force, Chappaqua, Pin Gods, Rasputin The Mad Monk, The Reptile, Trans-Europe-Express, The Big Cube, Trick Baby, The American Dreamer, Charlotte, The Cabinet of Dr Ramirez, My Soul is Slashed, You Are What You Eat, The Santa Tapes, Blackmail(1968), The Debauchers, The Detention Girls, The German Chainsaw Massacre, Move, Hate(1979), Surfari, The Passage, Death in the Seine, Slaves of Love and many more.

Issue 10
Spring 1997

Film Reviews: The Phynx, The Cool Ones, Revolution, A Man Called Dagger, Kid Blue, Last Frankenstein, Another State Of Mind, Thieves After Dark, Pets, The Witches(1969), /blonde on a Bum Trip, Bike Boy, Aftermath, The Pusher, Tokyo Fist, Z.P.G., Modesty Blaise, The Power(1968) and many more

Issue 9
Fall/Winter 1996

Reviews include Timothy Leary's Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out, The Maltese Bippy, William Klein's Mister Freedom, Crispin Glover in The Orkly Kid, Werner Herzog's Scream of Stone, Dusty and Sweets McGee, Barry Manilow in Copacabana, Louis Malle's Black Moon, Viva Knievel, Unman, Wittering and Zigo, et cetera.

Issue 8
Spring/Summer 1996

Reviews include Who Killed Teddy Bear?, Daisies, The Swinger, My Hustler and Vinyl, David Cronenberg's Fast Company, Bye Bye Monkey, Werner Herzog's God's Angry Man, Let My Puppets Come, Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon, Pink Narcissus, Chastity, The Candy Snatchers, Prelude to Happiness, et cetera.

Issue 7
1995

Reviews include Beyond Love and Evil, Klaus Kinski's Paganini, Cool Breeze, The Touchables, Harry Nilsson in Son of Dracula, No Blade of Grass, William Shatner and Adam West in Alexander the Great, The Saragossa Manuscript, Peter Watkin's Privilege, Cisco Pike, Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures, Agnes Varda's Lions Love, et cetera.

Issue 6
April 1994

Reviews include Farewell Uncle Tom, Timothy Carey's The World's Greatest Sinner, Remember My Name, Jackie Gleason in Skidoo, Just Imagine, Andy Warhol's The Chelsea Girls, Fighting Mad, Vapors, Robert Downey's Chafed Elbows, Paul Bartel's Shelf Life, A Place Called Today, Joe Sarno's Young Playthings, et cetera.

Issue 5
1993

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1993

Issue 3
1992

Issue 2
1992

Issue 1
1992

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