Shocker (1989) Halloween 2024 Movie Reaction | Happy October 1st!

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This may SHOCk y'all but I have not seen this Wes Craven film from 1989. I, having watched this, see it as a celebration/poking fun/satirizing of '80s horror tropes--I definitely see that as part of Craven's intent. Shocker (1989) is a delicious bag of mixed nuts that some people may be allergic to... not gonna lie, I do wish we could have seen where this would have gone as a franchise. Wes said he wanted to remake it and even was onboard for one in the '00s or 2010s. I feel like there's a way to revive it with even more appeal (*cue hissing from the "all remakes are bad even for movies that aren't considered that good" crowd*). I really do not see this as an A Nightmare on Elm Street ripoff...
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@ARM-ev2kq 5 дней назад

Well, it uploaded after midnight so it's October 2nd, but the sentiment still stands...

@DarkAngel1985Mike 3 дня назад

Love this movie and it has an awesome soundtrack

@DarkAngel1985Mike 3 дня назад

It was actually genius using electricity to jump bodies and travel because the human body creates electricity in the brain and using the satellite dish to jump through tv channels because it uses electricity to send the transmissions over the airwaves

@DarkAngel1985Mike 3 дня назад

Wes Craven is one of the Masters along with John Carpenter

@ARM-ev2kq 3 дня назад

Agreed!!!

@DarkAngel1985Mike 3 дня назад

It was 89 and a lot of factors contributed to it not doing good in theaters, like the rise of the conservative Moral Majority and suburban Moms picketing and calling for boycotts of horror movies, and the over saturation of horror movies in the 80’s, but it became a cult classic on the cable tv and video rental market and with metalheads with the soundtrack

@ARM-ev2kq 3 дня назад

Thank you for all your comments and input! Yeah, what was happening culturally at the time is important to keep in mind...like you said Moral Majority and those suburban moms were very pervasive at the time (the lady who tried to get Married...with Children off the air comes to mind--despite that show not being one that kids should be watching and she could have simply changed the channel). Plus, again like you said, horror movies were oversaturated in the '80s what with the "Big Three" franchises already having so many movies out plus everything else, which not only created a fatigue but also, as we know the MPA was cracking down. But the market being saturated with slashers starring attractive teenagers/young adults probably made it hard for certain movies to stand out. Also, this was within the era of satanic panic so I'm sure that played into the other things we've discussed. My next Halloween reaction is for a movie that I feel comments on these things and I'm sure was definitely a target of such scrutiny as well. It's also very metal--kinda the major part of its premise. I also agree it was quite brilliant to have Pinker jumping from body to body using electricity, as possession movies had been around awhile but this gave it a unique twist that made sense with some degree of scientific reasoning (sans electricity demon/devil/god he did the ceremony with). This is a really fun movie! Again, thank you for your interest in it. I think it's a good movie to talk about beyond the usual "Elm Street ripoff" discussion I see.

@DarkAngel1985Mike 3 дня назад

Well think how dumb cops can be sometimes and how they handle things, there’s a reason why so many innocent people have been convicted and executed for crimes they didn’t commit, in so many police departments people who were dumb jocks in high school are hired because of that or through family connections, a cop in my city that just shot and killed an innocent woman who had called the cops herself, was found out to have had strikes on his record from previous police departments and a dishonorable discharge from the military and was only hired because he had family connections in the police department

@wolfie35p 2 дня назад

This movie is okay, not great, just okay, I think it's a sidestep to another horror movie, House 3, which is much better, based along the same lines. You should watch House 3 after this, you'll enjoy House 3 better than this one.

@ARM-ev2kq 2 дня назад

Interesting...thank you for the suggestion! I'll see what I can do--I have a list I'm trying to power through this month. 😊