A psychotic serial killer is finally caught thanks to a high school football player who has a strange connection to the killer. Right before getting executed, he performs a demonic ritual and uses electricity to come back from the dead.
- Patrick Wai6. april 2026This has big peak-’80s “we have an idea, several wigs, and absolutely no brakes” energy. The acting is gloriously bad, the plot is predictable until it suddenly becomes confusing, and the whole thing feels like the kind of movie I probably would’ve thought ruled in high school after two Mountain Dews and no standards. The dream-stalking stuff inevitably brings A Nightmare on Elm Street to mind — which makes sense, since Wes Craven directed both — but this feels like the bargain-bin, louder, sillier cousin. The old-school effects are charming in a dusty VHS way, but very dated, and the movie is a solid 20 minutes too long. That said, I absolutely loved the lunatic gimmick of jumping into the TV and bouncing through different shows; it’s the one part where the movie becomes the kind of deranged nonsense it should’ve been all along. Critics weren’t exactly kind to it either: Shocker sits at 30% on Rotten Tomatoes, and even the consensus is basically “cool premise, lame result,” which feels about right. In the end, it’s a messy, overcooked, half-dumb, half-delightful horror relic: too long, too goofy, and too confused to be genuinely good — but just weird enough to stay mildly entertaining.
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Shocker ble utgitt 27. oktober 1989.
Shocker ble regissert av Wes Craven.
Shocker har en spilletid på 1t, 51m.
Shocker ble produsert av Barin Kumar, Marianne Maddalena.
A psychotic serial killer is finally caught thanks to a high school football player who has a strange connection to the killer. Right before getting executed, he performs a demonic ritual and uses electricity to come back from the dead.
Hovedpersonene i Shocker er Lt. Don Parker (Michael Murphy), Horace Pinker (Mitch Pileggi), Jonathan Parker (Peter Berg).
Shocker har aldersgrensen R.
Shocker er en Horror, Thriller, Comedy.
Shocker har en publikumsvurdering på 3.2 av 10.
Shocker hadde et budsjett på USD 5 mill..
Shocker har tjent USD 16,6 mill. på kino.