Shocker

Name: Shocker
Genre: Thriller, Horror, Comedy
Released: October 27, 1989
Duration: 109 min
Rating: 51
Cast: Camille Cooper, Heather Langenkamp, Jessica Craven, John Tesh, Michael Murphy

1989

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Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International | Release Date: October 27, 1989 | X

Starring: Camille Cooper, Heather Langenkamp, Jessica Craven, John Tesh, Michael Murphy, Mitch Pileggi, Peter Berg, Richard Brooks, Sam Scarber, Ted Raimi

Summary: After being sent to the electric chair, a serial killer uses electricity to come back from the dead and carry out his vengeance on the football player who turned him in to the police.

Director: Wes Craven

Genre(s): Thriller, Horror, Comedy

Rating: X

Runtime: 109 min

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Stephen Holden

With its freewheeling mixture of gore, surrealism and Freud, it will do almost anything to grab attention. If the movie's metaphors are as obvious and as portentous as the heavy metal music that punctuates the action, Shocker at least has the feel of a movie that was fun to make. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

At first glance (or at least for the first 40 minutes) Shocker seems a potential winner, an almost unbearably suspenseful, stylish and blood-drenched ride courtesy of writer-director Wes Craven’s flair for action and sick humour. As it continues, however, the camp aspects simply give way to the ridiculous while failing to establish any rules to govern the mayhem. The result is plenty of unintentional laughs. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Problems arise from an uncharacteristically loose structure, which frequently brings the movie to the brink of narrative collapse; Craven's visual flair and enthusiastic pacing nevertheless deliver ample (if sometimes frustrating) rewards. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

A sloppy, often goofy chiller, the film is full of references to (and outright rip-offs from) other movies, especially those of New Line Cinema, Craven's erstwhile producer. Read full review

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Jul 15, 2021

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LuciusMcGibbon

Apr 29, 2020

The acting is lame, the soundtrack is so 80's it almost stinks of Hulkamania, the effects have aged so, so badly, and the story is a pretty under-cooked goulash of low-hanging horror tropes. And yet it works... somehow... This movie doesn't take itself seriously for one moment, which makesThe acting is lame, the soundtrack is so 80's it almost stinks of Hulkamania, the effects have aged so, so badly, and the story is a pretty under-cooked goulash of low-hanging horror tropes. And yet it works... somehow... This movie doesn't take itself seriously for one moment, which makes it fully watchable and, dare I say, fun. It really doesn't do much to elevate Craven's resume, and yet I just can't bring myself to dislike this movie.… Expand

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