- Classification: 18
- Studio: 4 Front
- VHS Release Date: 1 Oct 1999
- Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00004WI6U
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 25,051 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Shocker allows Wes Craven to hang onto his title as the master of the horror genre--but only just. Centring once more on a charismatic lead character (Horace Pinker) Shocker continues Craven's penchant for combining fantasy and horror. Pinker (played with zeal by Mitch Pileggi of X-Files fame) is a serial killer--the "family slasher"--terrorising the inhabitants of the city of. Having murdered the foster family and girlfriend of all-American boy Jonathon Parker (Peter Berg), the latter finds he can foresee Pinker's actions in his dreams. The resulting supernatural developments (including ghosts, magic charms and possessed bodies) are more than a little muddled but underpinned by the continuous gruesome hack and slash action. A film with its brain most definitely disengaged, Shocker is still undemanding, wince-inducing fun.
On the DVD: Not much to offer from this format. The splendidly dated 1980's American heavy metal soundtrack (including Kiss and Megadeth) comes through loud and clear and the sound effects are certainly horribly audible. Picture quality is fine but not spectacular. Extras are limited to scene selection, the trailer and a selection of storyboards and their cinematic equivalents. --Phil Udell
From the Back Cover
Horace Pinker is a TV repairmen who murdered his wife and beat his child, and has become a serial slasher, wiping out entire families for the fun of it.
When Jonathan Parker experiences horrible nighmares that begin to come true, he realizes that he might be the key to stopping Pinker's rampage. He joins with his foster father, police Lt. Don Parker, in an attempt to save their family's lives and send demonic Pinker to teh electric chair.
The Parkers soon discover that this killer isn't just a TV repairman with a murderous bent. He is a lunatic with diabolical powers who can enter and possess other bodies at will.....
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
Horace Pinker is a sadistic mass murderer who kills for fun(you can tell) A football player named Jonathan teams up with his foster dad to nail the killer. When he dies, he gets transported into the electricity and goes on a rampage which results in an endless bloodbath with car chases, building chases and even a great chase through the T.V. I admit it gets very stupid near the end buts thats all the fun of it really!
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This is a great film that's serious and funny and is very fun to watch. If you're a fan of B-movies then you wont regret it. (I know I wont)
Format:DVD
Well, firstly I would like to start by saying I had always wanted to see this, from seeing the video shop posters when I was 9 and being a Wes Craven fan and the fact Freddy Kruger scared (and still does) the absolute crap out of me. Anyway, being a member of love film I stumbled across this title again last week and finally sat down to watch it with an open mind, thinking the concept was a great idea! What a shame, firstly the acting is appauling, the effects dire and worst of all its just plain boring! I eventually switched it off at 50mins! Don't get me wrong I love a good B movie but this was crap! The appeal with Freddy Kruger was his burns and the back story, give or take his glove he would still be terrifying as Robert Englund played the character with menace, Horace Pinker on the other hand it FIT, rather like a daddy in a gay porno, sure he has a limp (leg not wrist, which he chooses when he can and can't run on it) and the whole tv repair man was a clever idea, to play on kids imaginations but that's it, the only reason I would have watched the film until the end would be to perve on the lead actor.....
Some reviews earlier mention they didn't get the whole connection between the boys dreams and Horace - well I looked out for this and its because he was his father, still not enough to convince me though!
Watch 'A nightmare on Elm Street', or 'The People Under the stairs', both much much better films!
The shock I got from 'Shocker' was how boring it was!
Some reviews earlier mention they didn't get the whole connection between the boys dreams and Horace - well I looked out for this and its because he was his father, still not enough to convince me though!
Watch 'A nightmare on Elm Street', or 'The People Under the stairs', both much much better films!
The shock I got from 'Shocker' was how boring it was!
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Entertaining but kind of silly
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Published 8 months ago by StormSworder
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