Dont you just love watching horror movies that end up becoming a comedy the longer the movie goes. Werewolves, serial killers and poltergiests can get a bit much, nothing like a good belly laugh to quell the queezy gut after watching somebody get hacked up by that guy in Texas who owns a chainsaw or Freddy Krueger. Of course laughing at a horror movie usually indicates that the acting or storyline is positively crap, and the 1989 horror movie SHOCKER, directed by the horror guru WES CRAVEN, is the perfect embodiment of what i just outlined. It is positively hilarious in places, but plot wise it is an ABSOLUTE SHOCKER. The movie is a far fetched in the extreme tale, i guess all horror movies are that to a degree, centred on the character of television repairman HORACE PINKER, played by Mitch Pileggi, who is sentenced to death in the electric chair for killing the wife and son of Lieutenant DON PARKER, as well as many police officers in a shootout. After being hunted and tracked down to his workshop, Pinker is quickly thrown in the slammer and fried in the chair. What no one was banking on is that Pinker had done a deal with the Devil before his arrest and he would become an electrical immortal being after his execution. I know this doesn't sound funny but trust me the acting is so bad it ends up that way. Next time you have an 80`s VHS retro night, definitely keep SHOCKER in mind.
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