Shocker
After being sent to the electric chair, a serial killer, having murdered over 30 people, uses electricity to come back from the dead and carry out his vengeance on Jonathan Parker, a high school athlete who turned him in to the police.
9 December 1962, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
14 December 1965, Detroit, Michigan, USA
17 May 1957, London, England, UK
17 July 1964, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
20 March 1965, New Castle, Pennsylvania, USA
2 February 1949, Houston, Texas, USA
September 07, 2015
Shocker represents a low point (perhaps the lowest point) in the career of horror master Wes Craven. With lazy and uninspired writing, in addition to a mishmash of ridiculous plot points, this is a film that is best (and easily) forgotten.
February 22, 2007
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.
November 06, 2015
The notion that television regularly delivers violence into America's living rooms is literalized in this thoroughly wick-wick-wack but distinctive satire-chiller.
August 13, 2003
Lower rung Craven
September 11, 2015
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.
January 06, 2016
Like a frenzied fever dream fueled by the power of righteous heavy metal, Wes Craven's Shocker is certainly one of his more oddball cult classics, an amalgam of his most ambitious ideas & a viciously wild visual style.
September 08, 2015
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.
September 12, 2015
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.
October 21, 2013
Wes Craven creates Freddy Krueger. Again.
March 09, 2003
Um dos piores filmes da carreira de Wes Craven - e perceba que estamos falando do responsável pelo terrível Um Vampiro no Brooklyn...
March 26, 2009
the camp aspects simply give way to the ridiculous while failing to establish any rules to govern the mayhem. The result is plenty of unintentional laughs.
February 13, 2005
Proof positive that Wes Craven is not, in fact, any kind of master of horror
