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Reviewed by: Root Rot





Shock of the Century (2003)

Directed by: Ryan Cavalline

If you’ve ever wanted to know what it looks like when someone is shot in the mouth with an assault rifle then Shock of the Century is your flick!

Plot… Well there isn’t a plot unless you consider gruesome news footage, autopsy teaching films, and a fake as fuck alien autopsy a plot…then there ya go..

Overview…

Pitched as a mondo film Shock of the Century relies on horrific stock news footage to sell the film and less on creativity. Granted some of the footage made me cringe, but I lost interest quickly. Watching the footage of a Lebanese man convicted of car bombing then executed by a firing line was shocking…But it shouldn’t be because he deserved it… Right? If he did or didn’t is a moot point and the fact still remains footage of other people’s misfortunes isn’t a movie.

One may argue that Shock of the Century is the same as Face of Death or any other film that exploits real death scenes. That would be true to some degree, yet most of the footage in Faces of Death was staged making it a true mondo film.

So my question is, why would someone buy a copy of Shock of the Century? I guess the distributor relied on people’s desire to see horrible shit. After all we (me included) sneek a peek at the aftermath of a car accident….Don’t we?


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