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The Shock-O-Rama Poster Show 2025 #22:

  Hello, and welcome back. You may want to leave now. What follows is sure to be one of the worst Shock-O-Rama Poster Shows ever. I am not being hyperbolic. It’s bad. How bad is it? If you must know, stick around. But don’t say I didn’t warn you. Proceed at your own risk. Stomach distress bags will not be available. Let’s get this over with… On Friday, November 7, I looked through the peep hole on my front door. There, on the porch, was a long rectangular box. I wasn’t expecting anything. I quickly pulled it into the house. (I was in my underwear —eeek!—and what little hair hasn’t fallen off my head yet was sprayed out all over the place like a mad scientist.) I looked at the label and saw that it was from my friend Gillian and her husband Jason . Jason works for UPS , which this package had been sent through. Occasionally, Jason will get a package of posters destined for a movie theater that no longer exists. He is supposed to destroy the posters, but he has taken to saving them...

The Shock-O-Rama Poster Show 2021 #9

  EEK! The late night Shock-O-Rama Poster Show is about to begin. While nothing to brag about, this poster show came together rather unexpectedly and quickly. Don't push. Don't crowd. There's plenty of room for all.  Oh, the lights are dimming. The show is starting... SCOOB (Advance) : I've been a life-long Scooby Doo fan. Hello? A cartoon about teens detectives encountering spooky monsters? What's not to love? Before the pandemic, a new Scooby Doo movie was set to come out. The pandemic hit, the film was pulled (and sent directly to DVD/VOD), and that was that. I scored an advance poster for the film (with a young Scooby with a shadow behind him of what he'd grow to become) a while back...and then spotted this one---and it was fairly cheap. I still hadn't seen the flick, but it was Scooby. Why not? After getting the poster, I discovered that the movie was actually playing locally at our second-run theater. I guess since our theaters have reopened, they wer...