Directed by Wes Craven
Written by Wes Craven
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Shocker is the story of Horace Pinker, a psychopathic serial killer who murders entire families. He is also a TV repairman.
Pinker has a son, Jonathan, who dreams the murders after he runs into a goal post during football practice. Jonathan's foster father is a policeman, and John runs to tell him where they can find the murderer.
They catch Pinker after many casualties. They lock him in jail, where he (for some ungodly reason) hooks himself up to a TV and is electrocuting himself. Then they give him the electric chair, but instead of dying he gains the ability to leap from body-to-body possessing people.
He is out to get Jonathan. Jonathan has a necklace that for some reason can force Pinker out of people's bodies. They have an epic struggle that culminates in them fighting inside of TV programs.
If you have not seen this movie, then I just did you a favor by ruining everything for you. It is one of the dumbest movies I have ever seen. Just when you think the movie is at its dumbest, it turns the corner and it reveals to you another layer of ultra-dumbness.
Wes Craven made A Nightmare on Elm Street, one of the greatest horror films. He also made Shocker, one of the dumbest movies I've seen. If you check his filmography, you can see that Craven has his fair share of good movies, but you can also see that he's in pre-production on Scream 4. Yet, you cannot say that he's slipping in old age. You know why? Because he made fucking Shocker in 1989.

2/10