Shocker (1989)
Genre: Horror / Comedy
Duration: 109 minuten
Alternative titles: Wes Craven's Shocker / Shocker: No More Mr. Nice Guy
Country:
United States
Directed by: Wes Craven
Stars: Mitch Pileggi, Peter Berg and Michael Murphy
IMDb score:
5,5 (19.184)
Releasedate: 27 October 1989
Shocker plot
"On October 2, at 6:45 AM mass murderer Horace Pinker was put to death. Now, he's really mad."
A man who repairs televisions in other people's homes turns out to kill many people in this way. This serial killer, Horace Pinker (Mitch Pileggi), is sentenced to the electric chair. After his death, he uses electricity as a means of revenge against the person who put him on the electric chair, the young athlete Jonathan Parker (Peter Berg).
Actors and actresses
Lt. Don Parker
Horace Pinker
Jonathan Parker
Alison
Cooper
Rhino
Pastori
Pac Man
Victim
TV Newscaster
Reviews & comments
Filmkriebel
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- 10012 messages
- 4678 votes
As someone mentioned above, you can't ignore A Nightmare on Elm Street and The Hidden when you watch Shocker. After Freddy Krueger comes Horace Pinker, a serial killer who lives on as an energy being after his execution on the electric chair and takes possession of other bodies to continue his misdeeds . Although this is not a bad film, it gradually drags on to the umpteenth body switch and the umpteenth kills. It gets completely absurd when both Pinker and Parker are part of the TV shows being played. . I didn't like these kinds of fantasies, as well as some dream scenes, typical of Wes Craven's trademark, because of the much nonsense than A Nightmare on Elm Street (4*). Quite a contrast also for Pileggi, who would play the serious Walter Skinner in X-Files a few years later.
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Insignificance
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- 3220 messages
- 5589 votes
baby. Three for the price of one, but all together three times nothing. Or not much anyway. I especially dislike the tone of the film. Well turned on, but nowhere funny, nasty or anything like that. It is especially very busy. Story flies in all directions as soon as the poster scene comes up. Not bad in itself, were it not for the fact that it can hardly boast of something that impresses in any way. Not the killer anyway, he just keeps on roaring, that body hopping is only fun when he owns a little girl and although the lock has something in itself, hardly anything comes of it with all the foregoing. Wild movie, sure, but too bland and a total lack of stars. I don't remember much about this.
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scorsese
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- 13232 messages
- 11124 votes
Mediocre film in which a serial killer is caught and ends in the electric chair. It takes too long for the premise (the soul of the killer traveling from body to body) to kick in. The movie could easily have been a lot shorter. The characters aren't exactly believable and the acting isn't very good either. Still entertaining here and there, but mostly in a wrong way.
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