No one ever comes out and says this obvious fact. We'll say it here...Traci Lords is a pretty good actress. Pleasing to look at and often times she portrays a trash, or slutty character, but look deep...she does a fantastic job. In our film today, her character has no business stealing the show...yet she does. Thrown in with demons, rock musicians, groupies, and centerfold type babes, we are looking at Miss Lords when she is on camera. So let us take a look at this 1990 horror film that might have been straight to video, "Shock 'Em Dead," directed by Mark Freed.
Martin (Stephen Quadros) is a loser. He works at a pizza stand and his boss (Aldo Ray) hates him. He gets the opportunity to try out for a band and leaves for the audition. Aldo ray will fire him. He won't get the gig. Now the landlord at his trailer park wants him out. Then Martin meets a voodoo priestess (Tyger Sodipe) and he agrees to sell his soul to the devil to become the world's greatest rock musician. It happens and he wakes in bed at a mansion with three babes who adore him (Karen Russell, Laurel Wiley, and Gina Parks). The lingerie clad babes are there for his every wish. Martin, now known as Angel, goes to rehearsal and blows everyone away with his guitar playing. There he meets Lindsay (Lords), the band's manager. Greg (Tim Moffett) plays bass and is Lindsay's fiancé. Jonny (Markus Grupa) is the lead singer and after the first concert, Angel humiliates Jonny and becomes the lead singer, too.
Lindsay is very happy and secures mega-recording and gig contracts from a big promoter (Troy Donahue). Now Angel wants Lindsay. Problem, these bargains with the devil have consequences and Angel needs to kill everyday, sometimes more, and eat his kill. He'll kill and eat slut fans, Aldo Ray, the trailer park landlord, and more. Now he wants Lindsay as a bride but Greg intends to fight for the blonde manager. Lindsay realizes something is wrong with Angel and tries to flee. She'll have catfights with the three sluts that serve Angel. Now Angel intends to do a voodoo blood rite to make her a demon vampire, just like him.
Will Greg be able to successfully fight off Angel and reclaim Lindsay? Is Lindsay destined to be the bride of this demon? What will the three slut demon babes who serve Angel do about Lindsay being around so much? This is a good entertaining horror film with a lot of action, bad music, and Traci Lords. For a terrific horror film from the 90s that you have never seen, see "Shock 'Em Dead."
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