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Director: Eric Thornett Starring: Jason Waur, Debbie Rochon, Demetrius Parker, Pete Smak, Eric Thornett Screenplay: Eric Thornett Country: USA

It begins with our lead character Noble played by Jason Wauer staring down his loud 50's floral wallpaper in his rundown but tidy apartment. He has been having bad dreams about a white mask with eyes lying on the grounds of an old dilapidated castle. Noble takes a puff on his no brand cigarette and stubs it out on top of his old AM radio. He takes a swig from his booze bottle and downs some aspirin from a bottle aptly labelled aspirin. Then a red envelope is pushed under his door addressed to him. Noble opens the red envelope and finds a note with the message "Who are you?" Noble quickly opens the front door that reveals the apartment corridor. No one is there. Noble takes another smoke from his white unlabelled packet of near full cigarettes and lies on the floor peering through the space between the floor and the bottom of the front door to spot any obvious movement in the hallway. The phone, which dates back to the early part of the 20th century, rings. Noble answers but no one replies. He lies down on his bed, hits the booze and passes out. He wakes up to find two shady characters straight out of a Raymond Chandler detective story, standing at the base of his bed. Noble says "So who the fuck are you?" The two address themselves as "Concerned Citizens" and warn Noble of the bad element in the neighbourhood. The two concerned citizens (named Reigert and Munch but they never give out their names) show Noble a picture of a red haired girl who has gone missing nine days ago and tell him that this was her room. Noble looks at the photo and says that she looks familiar. They ask Noble how long he has been living in the room and Noble says that he doesn't know and guesses no longer than nine days. The two concerned citizens interrogate Noble some more and say that the missing girl owes their employer a lot of money. As the two concerned citizens turn to leave Noble asks them if they could make sense of the red envelopes being pushed under his door. Both concerned citizens seem disinterested in this and have no knowledge about the anonymous red envelope deliveries. They both leave but not before letting Noble know that they will be in touch. As the two concerned citizens close the front door behind them, Noble flicks his cigarette butt at the door as if flicking away an annoying bug. The phone rings again but this time there is a voice on the other end that asks Noble who he is? and when did he move in? The voice on the other end also knows about Nobles bad Dreams and asks if he had a dream last night. Noble asks who is on the other end of the line but the stranger hangs up. Later on Noble goes out and has breakfast. He stubs his cigarette butt out on his unfinished egg and proceeds to find some porn that he can take home and watch. After a passer-by harasses Noble and pisses him off, Noble throws his lit cigarette at the chest of the passer-by and decides to go home and get drunk and watch TV. Instead of normal TV viewing, a hardcore S&M film is playing instead, which genuinely grabs Nobles attention (don't know about you guys but if I was watching Home and Away and it was interrupted by a hardcore S&M film, I'd be quite chuffed and I would send hundreds of emails of approval to the Broadcaster). Suddenly an arm reaching out from under the bed interrupts the viewing. Talk about bad timing. Noble checks under the bed and finds no one there (surprise, surprise) and now TV programming has been restored to normal (go figure). Another red envelope pushed under the door tells Noble that he has "Things to do". Noble hits the Booze again and descends into la la land. The next morning Noble awakens to a ringing phone and it is the stranger requesting to meet him in person. Noble needs answers so he agrees to the meeting. The stranger who never provides a name comes up to the apartment. The stranger seems to know an awful lot about Noble and is also interested in the missing girl that the two concerned Citizens are looking for. He tells Noble that he lost touch with her some days ago and asks Noble if he would help him locate her.

Noble in his own way agrees to take on the task and tells the stranger that he can now stop slipping red envelopes under his door. The stranger tells Noble that he has not slipped any envelopes under his door and knows nothing about this. From here Noble visits the local underworld and Redlight districts to try and find out anything about the missing girl. From a guy on a street corner, Noble asks where he could get his hands on certain S&M video tapes and is given a contact. He visits the contact, purchases a movie and in doing so he requests to meet the filmmakers of the movie. Noble doesn't get one so he waits for another customer to come and buy a film, then Noble jumps him and beats the hell out of him and is provided with a contact of the film maker. He meets Normal (Eric Thornett) the boss of the underground S&M film business. Normal is more interested in fame and fortune rather than in porn, which for him is just a means to an end. In a tense meeting with Normal and his gang of thugs Noble shows Normal a picture of the girl and asks him if he knows her. Normal says he does and that the girl was recently employed to appear in his movies. Noble money flashes and smooth talks his way into getting an invitation to their base of operations to meet the girl. Will Noble finally get the answers that he is seeking and will he find the girl? What do the dreams about the white mask mean? Who is slipping the red envelopes under his door? What's under the bed? Will the two concerned citizens ever leave him alone? The path has been set and for Noble there is no turning back as he journeys toward the bloody conclusion of his wild and insane voyage of self-discovery that will leave you, Shockheaded.

Original Short Film Spider Ghost with commentary by director Eric Thornett. Approx 14 minutes. This is a very funny short film about, you guessed it, a Spider Ghost (body of a spider and head of a human) that haunts a house and becomes the beer-guzzling titty-watching junk-food munching housemate from hell. Hilarious and well worth the effort.

Debbie On Piranha – Actress Debbie Rochon speaks about her experience working on the film. Approx 3min.

DVD-ROM feature: Downloadable MP3 Music Tracks – requires computer with DVD Drive.

Commentary by Director Eric Thornett, Star Jason Wauer and Music Composer Jason Russler. You know you have a good audio commentary, when Actor Jason Waugh, Director Eric Thornett and Music Composer Jason Russler begin the Audio commentary by singing "Hello" in 3-point harmony. The commentary is fun to listen to with lots of interesting stories about what went on while making Shockheaded. Like the fact that Jason Waugh is a non-smoker and was literally sick for the entire shoot or that the stripper they hired to do an S&M scene was useless so one of them got their sister to play the part instead. This started a brief discussion about the extra footage shot of her that was real hot but never made it on the film. I thought I might get bored listening to the Audio commentary, as you know some can be quite tedious and dry but this one is light and humorous if only mildly informative about shooting techniques. If you are a film school student looking for an all out nuts and bolts "how'd they do it?" Audio Commentary, then this is not it. I recommend having a few beers before listening to the commentary.