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Title: Shocker (1989)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Mitch Pileggi | ... | Horace Pinker | |
| John Tesh | ... | TV Newscaster | |
| Heather Langenkamp | ... | Victim | |
| Peter Berg | ... | Jonathan Parker | |
| Jessica Craven | ... | Counterperson | |
| Camille Cooper | ... | Alison (as Cami Cooper) | |
| Richard Brooks | ... | Rhino | |
| Sam Scarber | ... | Cooper | |
| Ted Raimi | ... | Pac Man (as Theodore Raimi) | |
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Keith Anthony-Lubow-Bellamy | ... | Football Player |
| Virginia Morris | ... | Diane | |
| Emily Samuel | ... | Sally | |
| Michael Murphy | ... | Lt. Don Parker | |
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Peter Tilden | ... | Reporter |
| Bingham Ray | ... | Bartender | |
A murderous TV repairman, Horace Pinker is killing people in a small town left, right and center. He eventually finds the home of Lt. Parker, who is investigating his crimes, and savagely murders Parker's wife, son and daughter. His other son, Jonathan has a strange connection to Pinker through his dreams, and he directs his father to Pinker's business, where a small group of officers enter. Pinker escapes in a horrific spree, killing four officers and then targeting Jonathan's girlfriend, Alison. Another dream leads Jonathan and his dad to a residence where they catch Pinker in in the act of kidnapping. Pinker is arrested after a fight with Jonathan and sentenced to die in the electric chair. When executed, Pinker - who supposedly had given his soul to the devil in exchange for the power to come back as an energy source - takes over people's bodies and continues committing murders, until Jonathan devises a plan to bring Pinker into the real world, and then cut off his power source... Written by Derek O'Cain
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This is better than expected. Wes Craven tries to create another boogeyman in the character of Horace Pinker. Pinker is a serial killer who studies voodoo and kills entire families in their sleep. A young college football player named Jon (Peter Berg) develops a psychic link with Pinker. Jon begins an attempt to help the police catch the crazed killer. The first half of the film is realistic and intense, but the second half is based in the supernatural. Pinker gets the electric chair but becomes an evil entity that can transfer from body to body (mush like "Fallen" with Denzel Washington) and move through electricity. Once again Jon must use his link to stop the killer. Or is the killer to powerful to be stopped? There is some surprising gore and a pretty nifty plot twist. It's fun to watch a young Peter Berg in an earlier role but the film tend to drag a little. This film came near the end of the slasher craze and Craven was trying to cash in on it one more time. Craven was trying to make a point about televisions and the media, it was evident in the film. Overall, it was a solid and better than average slasher flick with a supernatural killer.