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Release Date
Oct 27, 1989 (USA)
DVD Release Date
• R1: Feb 1, 1999
Budget USD 5,000,000
MPAA Rating
R
Running Time
1 hour, 49 minutes
Country USA
Studio Alive Enterprises, Universal
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Other Titles
• Shocker: No More Mr. Nice Guy (1989)
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Genre: Horror, Demonic Possession, Slasher, Psychic, Monsters, Psychos, Murder, Supernatural, Ghosts, Revenge, Devil, Satire, Occult, Serial Killer, Demon
Tagline: No more Mr. Nice Guy
Plot: 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
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 Inventive, exciting and fun romp with Pileggi giving both a menacing and funny performance as the sarcastic Pinker.  -- (TheVideoGraveYard.com)
It was an all-right horror film, but not up to the excellence Craven would later show with "Scream." The weakest link in this movie might be that it has a male protagonist, something that often doesn't work in teen-slasher-style fear films.-- (eSplatter.com)
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Wes Craven
Freddy vs. Jason, The Hills Have Eyes, A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors |
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 | Heather Langenkamp
A Nightmare On Elm Street, A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, New Nightmare |
 | Peter Berg
Collateral, Cop Land, The Last Seduction |
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Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace, Like Father Like Son, Meet the Applegates | | |
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