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.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.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.
- Awards
- 1 nomination
Camille Cooper
- Alison Clement
- (as Cami Cooper)
Storyline
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- TriviaAccording to Wes Craven, the film was severely cut for an R-rating. It took around 13 submissions to the MPAA to receive an R instead of an X rating. Some of the scenes that were cut include: Pinker spitting out fingers that he bit off from prison guard, longer and more graphic electrocution of Pinker, and longer scene of possessed coach stabbing his own hand.
- GoofsCamera and sound crews' shadows visible during football game.
- Quotes
Jonathan Parker: We can't go killing people just to get Pinker out of their bodies.
- Crazy creditsThe music in the end credits is heard ending over the MPAA Rated R screen.
- Alternate versionsWhile uncut in cinemas, on video it was later indexed by the BPjM. As a result, an edited FSK-16 rated version was made for a wide commercial video release in Germany. This one contains over 4 minutes of cuts for violence, either reducing or outright removing the many violent bits, making the movie pretty much unwatchable. Only in 2016 was the indexing lifted, and one year later the uncut version was granted a FSK-16 rating, waiving all cuts from previous cut German releases.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Gorgon Video Magazine (1989)
- SoundtracksSword and Stone
Performed by Bonfire
Written by Desmond Child, Paul Stanley and Bruce Kulick
Courtesy of BMG Ariola GmbH/RCA Records
Featured review
a good craven film...drags a bit at the end
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.
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Sprache
- Also known as
- Wes Craven's Shocker
- Filming locations
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $5,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $16,554,699
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $4,510,990
- Oct 29, 1989
- Gross worldwide
- $16,554,699
- Runtime1 hour 49 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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