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Shocker (Blu-ray)
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 50 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 16, 1999
- Originally Released: 1989
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Peter Berg & Mitch Pileggi | |
Performer: | Michael Murphy, Camille Cooper & Richard Brooks | |
Directed by | Wes Craven | |
Edited by | Andy Blumenthal | |
Screenwriting by | Wes Craven | |
Cinematography by | Jacques Haitkin |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 6/10 --
Shocker is more over-the-top goofy than scary, but it's a good deal of fun and the special effects hold up pretty well after a quarter century.
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Under the Radar
Rating: 2/5 --
Lower rung Craven
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Wes Craven creates Freddy Krueger. Again.
Full Review
Cinema Crazed
Rating: 1/4 --
Shocker ranks among Craven's absolute worst, with his attempt to create another enduring villain like A Nightmare on Elm Street's Freddy Krueger falling woefully flat.
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Creative Loafing
Rating: C --
A revisitation of the director's favorite themes (alternate realities, parent-child dynamics, lunatics spouting one-liners) that pitifully attempts to replicate A Nightmare on Elm Street.
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Lessons of Darkness
Rating: 2/4 --
If "Shocker" careens off its rails, however, Craven's puppet-master command behind the scenes remains in evidence; his direction is never in doubt, even when shreds of his script are.
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TheBluFile.com
...SHOCKER is crammed with dazzling bursts of macabre technique...
Los Angeles Times
Product Description:
After a series of unusual dreams, young football star Jonathan Parker (Peter Berg) captures serial killer Horace Pinker (Mitch Pileggi), a diabolical television repairman responsible for the deaths of several families. Pinker is sentenced to die in the electric chair, but the execution goes awry and more people are mysteriously killed. Jonathan realizes that Pinker has used black magic to transfer himself into electricity, able to travel through power lines into homes through television sets. Despite the skepticism of his police detective father (Michael Murphy), only Jonathan can track Pinker down and destroy him once and for all. Director Wes Craven combines his serial killer thriller with a dash of social criticism, satirizing the modern obsession with the media in ways similar to his later hit SCREAM. Horace Pinker is a tough slasher in the Freddy Krueger mode, making wisecracks between murders, making +SHOCKER a tense but funny horror movie, with appearances by John Tesh and Dr. Timothy Leary (as a televangelist) as well as a cameo by Craven himself. The film climaxes in a wild chase between Jonathan and Pinker through the dangerous television landscapes, a realm where anything can happen.