Shocker (also known as Wes Craven's Shocker) is a 1989 horror film written and directed by Wes Craven. The relatively low-budget film has since become a cult classic. It starred Peter Berg, Michael Murphy, and Mitch Pileggi as the antagonist Horace Pinker.
Both Wes Craven and Universal had hoped for the film to launch a franchise (Craven had particularly wanted to create a new series since he felt he had not been given due profits from New Line C...
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Shocker (also known as Wes Craven's Shocker) is a 1989 horror film written and directed by Wes Craven. The relatively low-budget film has since become a cult classic. It starred Peter Berg, Michael Murphy, and Mitch Pileggi as the antagonist Horace Pinker.
Both Wes Craven and Universal had hoped for the film to launch a franchise (Craven had particularly wanted to create a new series since he felt he had not been given due profits from New Line Cinema resulting from the Nightmare on Elm Street series). However, due to the middling commercial performance and poor reception of the film, no sequel was made.
A serial killer is on the loose in a Los Angeles suburb, and a television repairman with a pronounced limp named Horace Pinker (Mitch Pileggi) becomes the prime suspect. When the investigating detective, Lt. Don Parker (Michael Murphy), gets too close, Pinker murders Parker's wife, daughter, and his biological son. However, his adopted son Jonathan (Peter Berg) develops a strange...
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