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Shocker

1989

Wes Craven

Michael Murphy, Mitch Pileggi, Camille Cooper, Peter Berg ...

4.5

1,688

Horror. Fantasy After being sent to the electric chair, a serial killer uses electricity to come back from the dead and carry out his vengeance on the football player who turned him in to the police.

	Author	Review
United States	Mark Kermode Time Out	"Problems arise from an uncharacteristically loose structure (...) Craven's visual flair and enthusiastic pacing nevertheless deliver ample (if sometimes frustrating) rewards."	NEU
United States	Michael Wilmington Los Angeles Times	"Craven, like David Cronenberg or George Romero, is a real virtuoso of lower-case horror, and 'Shocker' is crammed with dazzling bursts of macabre technique."	POS
United States	Variety	"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."	NEG
United States	Anthony Arrigo Dread Central	"'Shocker' remains a fun, energetic entry in Craven’s oeuvre, bolstered by Pileggi’s raving performance (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Daniel Kurland Bloody Disgusting	"'Shocker' remains a fun oddity from Craven’s career that has a strong premise, but it just doesn’t get enough use out of that premise or feature enough scares."	NEU
United States	David Nusair Reel Film	"[It] benefits from a consistently surprising narrative that contains enough elements and wild left turns to sustain several horror movies (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	POS

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