Product Information
A mass murderer goes to the electric chair....but something goes horribly wrong. The electrical energy transforms him into a monster, able to enter and possess other's bodies at will. Now he is loose and unstoppable...Product Identifiers
EAN5055201804051
eBay Product ID (ePID)66893839
Product Key Features
ActorMitch Pileggi, Michael Murphy, Peter Berg, Richard Brooks, Cami Cooper
Film/TV TitleShocker
DirectorWes Craven
LanguageEnglish
Run Time105 Mins
Aspect Ratio16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Release Year2008
FormatDVD
FeaturesWidescreen
GenreHorror/Occult, General
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Certificate18
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America
Additional InformationAfter 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 happen.
ReviewsLos Angeles Times - ...SHOCKER is crammed with dazzling bursts of macabre technique...
Sound sourceDolby Digital