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SPRING 2005
Event
News 05-26-2005
FANGORIA WEEKEND OF HORRORS
Visit Shock-O-Rama Cinema at the Fangoria Weekend of Horrors, June 4 & 5, at the Burbank Airport Hilton and Towers, in Burbank, CA. The Weekend of Horrors, the convention component of the popular, beloved and widely read horror magazine, brings together fans; filmmakers, stars, personalities & celebrities; and all manners of purveyors of horror-related goods and paraphernalia for an entertaining, informative and fun-filled event. 
This year, Shock-O-Rama is happy to announce that beautiful Seduction and Shock-O-Rama Cinema actress Andrea Davis (Lust for Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mistress Hyde) and 'B' horror actor/screenwriter Trent Haaga (star of Shock-O-Rama's Suburban Nightmare; writer of the label's upcoming zombie flick Feeding the Masses) will be the guests on both days, appearing at the Shock-O-Rama tables to sign DVDs and 8x10s. So be sure to stop by and say hello to Andrea and Trent.
Headlining guests at this year's Weekend of Horrors include filmmaker/musician Rob Zombie and the cast from his latest horror opus The Devil's Rejects, Wes Craven, Bruce Campbell, Tobe Hooper, Alan Ormsby and Lucky McKee, to name a few. Shock-O-Rama is thrilled to be part of what will surely be an exciting and memorable show for all involved. For more information, log on to www.fangoria.com/special_events.php
New Release News 04-11-2005
GIRL WHO SHAGGED ME GOES HOLLYWOOD
On
March 29, Seduction Cinema’s newest sexy spoof, The Girl Who Shagged Me
MPAA R “Director’s Edition” (on DVD), will be available as a rental title at
all Hollywood Video rental stores nationwide in the US. Hollywood
continues to support many of ei Cinema’s new
releases, including recent films Lust for Dracula, Bite Me!, and Vamps
2: Blood Sisters, and understands that such fun, sexy, and unique product
is typically underserved in the home video rental market.
So
head to your nearest Hollywood Video, and be the first to get your hands on The Girl Who Shagged Me. Also
hitting store shelves on March 29 is Retro-Seduction Cinema’s Swedish
Wildcats/New
York
Wildcats double feature release on
DVD…& VHS! Swedish Wildcats is the
1972 erotic cult classic directed by legendary sexploitation auteur Joseph Sarno and starring British bombshell Diana Dors. This widely
hailed and eagerly awaited Sarno film is partnered
with the steamy 2002 homage, New York Wildcats, starring Misty Mundae, Chelsea Mundae, Katie
Jordon, and Ruby LaRocca.
Event
News 04-11-2005
RHONDA SHEAR & GLORI-ANNE GILBERT
AT CHILLER CON
Don’t forget to visit ei Cinema’s “Seduction Cinema” and “Shock-O-Rama Cinema” tables at the upcoming Chiller Theatre Toy,
Model & Film Expo – a.k.a. The Chiller Theatre Con
(http://www.chillertheatre.com) –
April 29 thru May 1, at the Meadowlands Sheraton, in East Rutherford, NJ. The twice-annual Chiller Con (also held each
October) is one of the most fun, exciting and heavily attended fan conventions
on the East Coast show after show, year after year, offering up an always
potent combination of horror, fantasy, sci-fi, and pop-culture merchandise,
movies, and, of course, celebrities!
This
April, Shock-O-Rama
Cinema will be promoting its July 26, 2005 cult/horror film release – the
sexy, shocking and outrageous women-in-prison homage, Prison-A-Go-Go,
written & directed by Barak Epstein; co-starring
cult film and TV legends Rhonda Shear (USA “Up All Night”) and Mary Woronov (Death Race 2000, R. Zombie’s The Devil’s
Rejects); and the recipient of several awards at the 2004 ‘B’ Movie Film
Festival (http://www.b-movie.com/hof/2004.html)
including “Best ‘B’ Movie,” “Best
Director,” “Best Set Design,” and “Best Actress” (Rhonda Shear). Shock-O-Rama is
thrilled to announce that the lovely Ms. Shear will be appearing at its table,
on Saturday and Sunday, and she will be autographing pre-release DVDs of
Prison-A-Go-Go as well as promotional 8x10s created specifically for her
special Chiller Con/Shock-O/Prison-A-Go-Go appearance. It will be a wonderful opportunity to meet
the beloved and beautiful host of the popular USA Network late-night TV show,
“Up All Night,” that began airing in 1986 and broadcast both classic as well as
forgettable ‘B’ movies.
Meanwhile,
next door at the Seduction Cinema table,
another luscious actress will be promoting an upcoming release – namely
Gloria-Anne Gilbert and her starring vehicle, the ultra-erotic thriller, Lust
Connection, which hits stores on May 31, but will be available at
Chiller. Glori-Anne
appeared at the Shock-O-Rama Cinema table during the
October 2004 Chiller Con, to promote Vamps 2: Blood Sisters, and now
Seduction Cinema will enjoy the Glori-ous honor of
her presence on Saturday and Sunday, when she will also be signing DVDs and
promotional 8x10s. Directed by H.R.
Blueberry (Busty Cops series) and produced by genre veteran Jim Wynorski (Chopping Mall, Not of this Earth),
the super-steamy Lust Connection showcases Glori-Anne
as twin sisters Jenny and Susan and features a bevy of seductive beauties
including Julie K. Smith, Monique Parent, Chasey
Lain, and Jodie Moore.
Seduction
Cinema veteran Darian Caine
will also be attending promoting her new naughty DVD release “My Pleasures”. Caine is the star of the upcoming Beckerman/Bacchus epic
“Lust in Space”.
It’s
going to be an enormously entertaining and lively time at the ei Cinema tables considering the special lovely ladies in attendence and exciting new releases, and an eventful April
Chiller Con in general (Aren’t they all?), so make it your business to come on down
and partake of the bounty of horror and sci-fi goodies and guests available all
weekend long.
Production News 04-11-2005
ei CINEMA
GOES HI-DEF
ei Cinema is thrilled to announce that it has taken the
bold leap into Hi-Definition (HD) digital technology with the purchase of the
AVID Media Composer Adrenaline HD editing system. With cutting edge hardware
that turns the AVID into a high-velocity HD workstation, the Media Composer
will facilitate the hi-definition mastering of ei
film projects, which in turn will allow the studio to take full advantage of
the current and soon-to-be increased demand for HD content and media from cable
TV providers and programmers and foreign territories, and for the
packaged-goods home entertainment market.
Over the past 9 months, ei has utilized outside services to convert its films from
standard definition to HD, or master new projects directly on HD. The Media Composer gives ei
the flexibility to do all work in-house with a greater degree of control and
accuracy, and with higher capability to fine-tune and linger a bit longer on
post-production fx – all without having to worry
about keeping a constant eye on the clock, as HD editing per hour rates can be
staggering.
The first film in the
pipeline to be the recipient of the new hi-end HD technology will be
stop-motion animation fx heavy Shock-O-Rama, veteran horror director Brett Piper’s third
feature – it’s a Creepshow-styled anthology –
for the Shock-O-Rama Cinema label.
With the addition of the
AVID Media Composer Adrenaline HD, ei will be nothing
less than a full-service post-production facility with 4 standard definition
editing systems and, now, one super-sized HD system!
Production
News 04-11-2005
BECKERMAN & BACCHUS BACK IN THE SACK
Erotica fans…Rejoice! The long-anticipated reunion of prolific and
legendary Seduction Cinema tag-team Michael Beckerman and John Bacchus has been
announced, and both parties are thrilled to be back in the erotica saddle once
again. Producer Beckerman and
writer/director Bacchus parted ways amicably in early 2003 to work on separate
projects and had only recently taken up the intriguing idea of working together
again on what they have mutually termed, “…new and exciting stuff for Seduction
Cinema...” Apparently the talks were productive, and the two soft-core
stalwarts are already gearing up for a couple of projects beginning in April
2005.
Between
1997 and 2003, the dynamic erotic duo of Beckerman & Bacchus
produced/directed some twenty feature films together. Past films and those for which they are most
renowned among fans and critics include cult classic girl-on-girl erotica
spoofs The Erotic Witch Projects 1 & 2, Erotic Survivor 1&2,
Gladiator Eroticvs and Play-mate of the
Apes as well as such simmering sensual gems as Vampire’s Seduction, Girl
Explores Girl: The Alien Encounter, Erotic Ghost, Mistress
Frankenstein and more.
Project
#1 for Round #2 of the Beckerman/Bacchus re-team will be the erotic sci-fi
adventure Lust in Space: The Erotic Witch Project IV, starring Darian Caine, AJ Khan, Bethany Lott (Who Wants to be an
Erotic Billionaire, SpiderBabe) and
Seduction Cinema newcomers Alexia Moore and Jackie Stevens. The fourth installment in the Erotic Witch
Project series (Erotic Witch Project, Erotic Witch Project 2:
Book of Seduction, Witchbabe: Erotic
Witch Project 3), Lust in Space
finds Colonels Khan and Caine traveling in back in
time in an to attempt to find a cure for the “Erotic Witch” plague that has
engulfed the Earth, decimated the planet, and lead civilization to the brink of
destruction. Will the two time-traveling
beauties be able to rescue the world from sex-starved crazies, or will their
pent-up lust for each other and delectable fellow crewmembers destroy them all?
Following Lust in Space, Beckerman and Bacchus go
right back to work with the tentatively titled Ghostly Desires, starring Bethany Lott and Jackie Stevens. In it, a home film projector that can
magically “turn on” does just that to two luscious young women who begin
watching the hot, classic stag loops being projected by the possessed
machine. With the flickering erotic
images, purring projector, and unspooling reels of
16mm film acting as a potent aphrodisiac, the women find themselves unable to
control their surging lesbian desires…which quickly spin more and more out of
control until the final, mouth-watering, sprocket holes-tearing climax!
With
brand spanking new productions Lust in
Space and Haunted Sex in
the immediate queue, it looks like Beckerman and Bacchus are back with a bang! Keep an eye out for further news on these and
other upcoming projects from the men who made soft-core erotica fun and
outrageous again.
Production
News 04-11-2005
SHOCK-O-RAMA…THE MOVIE
Horror
film veteran Brett Piper (Screaming Dead, Arachnia,
Bite Me!) recently wrapped production on his newest feature – his third
– for Shock-O-Rama Cinema, the aptly titled Shock-O-Rama. Piper modeled Shock-O-Rama
on the many classic Amicus horror anthologies (The House that Dripped
Blood, Asylum) from the 1960s and 70s as well as George Romero’s Creepshow and classic horror comics from EC and
Warren. Shot at locations in New York and New Jersey, the macabre, fx-laden
Shock-O-Rama stars several ei
“regulars” including Misty Mundae, Julian Wells, McKenzie
Matthews, A.J. Khan, Rob Monkiewicz, and Michael
Thomas.
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The
past four months saw the ei Cinema studio transformed
into a maze-like assemblage of winding, subterranean corridors featuring gnarled
tree roots protruding and descending from ceilings; a colorful “dream” room
consisting of psychedelic and surrealistic furniture, gadgets and
accoutrements; and an alien “control” center incorporating organic looking
hardware, props, and structures with a decidedly Cronenbergesque
feel – all constructed by writer/director Piper and set designer/prop master
Christina Christodoulopoulos.
Now begins the next phase
of painstaking work for the stop-motion animation and miniature fx whiz and special make-up fx
master Brett Piper, who will be busy finalizing the complex models (a rusty,
old bulldozer, an alien-controlled, mechanized monstrosity made out of junked
parts and scrap metal), articulated figures (tiny aliens), and mini-sets (a
cartoon village) that will find their way into Shock-O-Rama’s
live action sequences…most of them for the “Mechanoid”
and “Lonely is the Brain” segments of the anthology.
“Zombie This,” featuring Misty Mundae and a decayed denizen of the living dead, is the
third fright film within the anthology and serves as the wrap-around
story. Of special note, Piper will be
posting Shock-O-Rama on ei’s
recently installed AVID Media Composer Adrenaline High-Definition editing
system, and its capabilities put the company on the cutting edge of HD digital
technology.
Shock-O-Rama is currently scheduled for home video release in
January or February 2006. Stay tuned for
further news and updates. In the
meantime, you can read a very nice FilmThreat.com interview with horror
auteur Brett Piper concerning the Shock-O-Rama by
clicking here.
Production News
04-11-2005
GRITTY NEW SEDUCTION
CINEMA SPOOF WRAPS IN UK
Seduction Cinema is widely
known and beloved for its many outrageous erotic spoofs, and one of its most
inspired has just wrapped production following an intense and exciting eleven
day shoot in Manchester, England, under the command of its director/co-writer
Tom J. Moose of Viscera Motion Pictures, who helmed the 2004 UK-lensed production The
Girl Who Shagged Me (now available in stores nationwide). The new film, SSI: Sexy Scene
Investigation, is a parody of the long-running hit CBS TV show, CSI,
starring William L. Peterson and Marg Helgenberger,
that details the lives and travails of an elite team of police forensic
evidence/crime scene investigation experts working their cases in a Las Vegas.
Seduction Cinema sent its
popular actors A.J. Khan (Lord of the G-Strings, The Girl Who Shagged
Me), McKenzie Matthews (Bite Me!, Shock-O-Rama)
and John P. Fedele (Sexy American Idle, Bite Me!)
across the pond to star in the hilarious film – one whose craziest conceit is
having Manchester, England double as New York City! The rest of the cast, including seductive
English actresses Rachel Travers (The Girl Who Shagged Me), Frankie
Babe, Natalie Heck, Angelina Havusinner, Suzie Best
and Lexi Martinez, and macho co-star Rob Taylor, also
of The Girl Who Shagged Me pedigree, had to brave American accents to
pull off the Manchester-as-NYC slight-of-hand.
New York City. Detective John Honeysuckle (John Fedele) – an ex-‘Nam veteran with issues – is a troubled
cop struggling in his duty as top dog at city’s toughest investigative bureau, SSI: Sex Scene Investigation. The
department was set up to enforce Christian Right Conservative and U.S.
President George Shrub’s extreme I.S. (“Illicit Sex”) Bill – a law devised to
make sex outside of marriage illegal!
When Honeysuckle falters and his unsolved sex cases
mount, Chief Al Boston (Rob Taylor) has no option but to introduce support in
the person of Honeysuckle’s hot new partner, Katrina Lightbody
(A.J. Khan). The pair starts out badly with Honeysuckle finding it difficult to
adjust to the sharp, bright-eyed and beautiful Lightbody
and re-affirm his status as the big cheese in the department.
A mysterious outbreak of lesbian seductions hits Manhattan that forces Honeysuckle
and Lightbody to put their differences aside and work
together to crack the case, case the cracks, and nail the villain. As the story
unfolds and the thrilling action heats up to full steam ahead, sinister secrets
behind the girl-on-girl seductions, a dark plot involving the Vice President (McKenzie Matthews), and evidence of a plan to overthrow President
Shrub and bring shame upon him via his nymphomaniac daughter (Natalie Heck) are
uncovered and the likely Left-leaning culprits tracked down.
…Considering the above, it’s apparent that no one
will be leaving the scenes of these crimes! SSI: Sexy Scene Investigation now
rolls into post-production – still in the supremely talented and very capable
hands of writer/director Moose. Rough cuts
for a no-holds-barred Unrated version as well as a
super-sexy R-rated version should be presented to Seduction Cinema sometime in
May with final cuts soon to follow, so look for the film’s home video release
later in 2005.
Production
News 04-11-2005
EROTIC WEREWOLF RISING
Misty
Mundae, Julian Wells, Darian
Caine, Anoushka, Ruby LaRocca, and Zoe Moonshine star
in the long-awaited and ferociously anticipated erotic horror film from
Seduction Cinema – An Erotic Werewolf in London. This ultra hot’n’horny’n’hairy
lycanthropic, erotic epic – shot in London and in the USA, in 2000 – and has
just gone into post-production where it will be lovingly assembled for an early
2006 home video release.
Anoushka
plays a luscious blonde werewolf living in London who – a la An Interview with a Vampire – meets
up with a reporter to relate her tragic transformation woes and tell her story
once and for all to the world. We learn
that Anoushka’s bite has recently turned doe-eyed
American beauty Misty Mundae into a fellow female
werewolf whose metamorphosis into hairy sexual predator is instigated by
arousal and, ultimately, orgasm.
Busily
seducing the nurses at the hospital in which she is recovering, Misty learns of
the harrowing pains yet sumptuous pleasures of her new existence. When Misty escapes the hospital, the reporter
makes it her urgent business to warn Misty’s lover,
Ruby LaRocca, of the danger she faces when the two of
them make love. Incredulous of the
story, Ruby immediately chains Misty to their bed and ravishes her to point of
climax…only to discover the shocking truth and witness the orgasmic
transformation of Misty into sensual yet deadly she-beast.
Quite
a hair-raising story, no doubt, and considering the wealth of Seduction Cinema
talent lending their beauty and sexy charms to this over-the-top erotica flick,
it is no surprise that An Erotic Werewolf in London has become THE long wished for release of many
Seduction Cinema fans.
Internet Streaming News 04-11-2005
WATCH ei FILMS ON CINEMANOW.COM
You
can view many of ei Independent Cinema’s horror and
erotica films on-line at CinemaNow (www.CinemaNow.com) – the leading
destination for the authorized distribution of feature films on the
Internet. Films are available on a pay-per-view,
download-to-own (also known as digital sell-through), and subscription
basis. The CinemaNow
library contains approximately 5,000 feature length films, shorts, music
concerts, television programs, and movie trailers from over 200 licensors including
20th Century Fox, Disney, MGM, Miramax, Sony, Warner Bros., Lions Gate
Entertainment, Lot 47 Films, Vanguard Cinema, and Visionbox
Media.
CinemaNow’s “After Dark” adult theater offers many cult and classic erotica films
from the Seduction Cinema and Retro-Seduction Cinema labels as well as several
early short films starring ‘B’ sensation Misty Mundae,
behind-the-scenes from Seduction Cinema films + more. Catalog titles continue to go up with new
releases added monthly. So head to the
premiere site for on-line entertainment and get a 7 Day Free Trial period while
you’re at it.
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