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“Stock Shock” is the first of 3 major films to be released about the robbing of the American investor. This movie uncovers the tricks of traders who use super-fast market technology to make profitable bets on stocks they never even own thus landing legitimate investors in the poorhouse.

The movie, told through the eys of the investors, homes in on one of the most shorted stocks on Nasdaq: Sirius XM, which hit a high of $9.00/share and then dropped to an alarming low of 5 cents in 2009, leaving behind an estimated one million investors with their dreams crushed and their bank accounts emptied. Stock Shock interviews separate investors who lost their shirts and are enraged because it didn’t have to happen.

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STYD reports that horror film Mum & Dad will make its way across the pond once it opens in the UK on December 26. Its distributor Revolver Entertainment is gunning for a May 9, 2009 release in the US. No mention was made whether it will be released in theaters or direct-to-DVD.

The film, written and directed by Steven Sheil, tells the story of a perverted family who kidnap, torture and ultimately murder their victims. It tells the story through a kidnapped young office cleaner who is drawn into their sick, perverse world.

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