USA, 1989
109m
35mm film, colour, 1.85:1
Ultra Stereo, English
An American horror film directed by Wes Craven.
Plot Summary
TV repairman Horace Pinker is also a serial killer terrorising a small American town. After murdering the wife, son and daughter of Lt Parker, who is investigating his case, Pinker is captured and executed in the electric chair. But he forges a pact with the Devil and returns as an energy source, possessing bodies and continuing his murder spree.
Credits
Crew
Directed by: Wes Craven
© 1989 Universal City Studios, Inc. in the United States, Canada and certain related territories of this world
© 1989 Carolco International N.V. in all other countries and territories of the world
Alive Films presents
Executive Producers: Shep Gordon, Wes Craven
Produced by: Marianne Maddalena, Barin Kumar
Co-Producers: Peter Foster, Bob Engelman
Associate Producer: Warren Chadwick
Written by: Wes Craven
Director of Photography: Jacques Haitkin
Additional Photography by: Mac Ahlberg
Edited by: Andy Blumenthal
Music by: William Goldstein
Sound Mixer: Robert Janiger
Costume Designer: Isis Mussenden
Key Makeup & Hair Stylist: Suzanne Parker Sanders
Special Makeup Designed by: Lance Anderson
Special Effects by: Special Effects Services, Larry Fioritto
Digital Visual Effects by: The Polycom Group, Inc, Alan k Barnett, Mark Zarate
Special Visual Effects by: Available Light Ltd.
Production Designer: Cynthia Kay Charette
Casting: Gary M. Zuckerbrod
Filmed in Part at Raleigh Studios, Hollywood, CA and Apricot Entertainment, Inc
Cast
Michael Murphy (Lt. Don Parker)
Peter Berg (Jonathan Parker)
Cami Cooper (Alison)
Mitch Pileggi (Horace Pinker)
Richard Brooks (Rhino)
Vincent Guastaferro (Pastori)
Sam Scarber (Cooper)
Theodore Raimi (Pac Man)
Dr Timothy Leary (TV evangelist)
Kane Roberts (road worker)
John Tesh (TV newscaster)
Heather Langenkamp (victim)
Jessica Craven (counterperson)
Keith Anthony Lubow-Bellamy (football player)
Virginia Morris (Diane)
Emily Samuel (Sally)
Peter Tilden (reporter)
Bingham Ray (bartender)
Sue Ann Harris (waitress)
Eugene Chadbourne (man in bar)
Alternative Titles
100 000 volts de terreur – Canada (French)
100.000 Volts de Terror – Portugal
Napadac – Serbia
Shocker, 100.000 voltios de terror – Peru, Spain
Shocker: 10.000 voltios de terror – Mexico
Shocker: 100 Mil Volts de Terror – Brazil
Shocker: 100,000 voltios de terror – Mexico, Uruguay
Shocker: 100.000 Volts de Terror – Brazil
Shocker: No More Mr. Nice Guy – USA
Şok – Turkey
Soker – Serbia
Sokkoló – Hungary
Sotto shock – Italy
Wes Craven’s Shocker – Finland, USA
Шокър – Bulgaria
Электрошок – Soviet Union
ショッカー – Japan
決戰第九空間 – Taiwan
Links
Extracts included in
Alison’s Adventures with Cami Cooper (2015)
Cable Guy with Mitch Pileggi (2015)
Gorgon Video Magazine (1989)
It’s Alive with Shep Gordon (2015)
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue: The Evolution of the American Horror Film (2009)
No More Mr. Nice Guy (1990)
No More Mr. Nice Guy: The Music of Shocker (2015)
Sword & Stone (1989)
Trailer Trauma 3: 80s Horrorthon (2017)
Includes extracts from
Alice Cooper: The Nightmare Returns (1989)
Frankenstein (1931)
References
Periodicals
- American Cinematographer vol.70 no.10 (October 1989) p.74-76 – illustrated article
- Cinefantastique vol.19 no.4 (May 1989) p.11 – illustrated article (Coming: No more Mr Nice Guy: Wes Craven plans to knock Freddy Kreuger off his horror roost by Steve Biodrowski)
- Cinefantastique vol.20 no.1/2 (November 1989) p.14-15 – illustrated article (Wes Craven, Shocker: the father of Freddy Krueger unveils another candidate for the horror franchise hall of fame by Steve Biodrowski)
- Cinefantastique vol.20 no.5 (May 1990) p.50 – illustrated interview with Wes Craven (Director Wes Craven on Shocker, fighting ratings censorship by Steve Biodrowski); 51 – illustrated credits, review (Flashy pyrotechnics, super-hero violence lacks restraint by Bob Morrish); 51 – illustrated interview with Lance and David Anderson (Shocker: Makeup by Lance and David Anderson by Steve Biodrowski)
- City Limits no.446 (19 April 1990) p.36 – illustrated review
- Empire no.11 (May 1990) p.69 – illustrated review (Empire directory by Kim Newman)
- Film Comment vol.25 no.5 (September/October 1989) p.8 – illustrated interview with Wes Craven; 8 – illustrated review (Professor Gore)
- Films in Review vol.41 no.1/2 (January/February 1990) p.43 – review
- The Hollywood Reporter vol.307 no.39 (30 May 1989) p.27 – credits
- Interzone no.38 (August 1990) p.43 – review (by Nick Lowe)
- Monthly Film Bulletin vol.57 no.676 (May 1990) p.141-142 – illustrated credits, review
- Positif no.350 (April 1990) p.72 – credits, review
- Starburst no.140 (April 1990) p.25 – illustrated review
- Strange Adventures vol.2 no.7 (no.19 August 1990) p.5 – review (Videozone: Shocker by Graeme Wey)
- Time Out no.1026 (18 April 1990) p.29, 48 – review
- Variety 1 November 1989 p.34 – review
Books
- The Aurum Film Encyclopedia: Horror by Phil Hardy (ed.) p.452
- The Films of the Eighties by Robert A. Nowlan and Gwendolyn Wright Nowlan p.514
- Horror and Science Fiction Films IV by Donald C. Willis p.452
- Horror Films of the 1980s by John Kenneth Muir pp.761-763 – credits, synopsis, review
- The Pocket Essential Slasher Movies by Mark Whitehead pp.86-87
- Serial Killer Cinema: An Analytical Filmography by Robert Cetti p.411-412
