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 . 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 becomes the prime suspect. When the investigating detective, Lt. Don... Parker , gets too close, Pinker murders Parker's wife, daughter, and his biological son. However, his adopted son Jonathan develops a strange connection to Pinker through his dreams and leads Parker to Pinker's rundown shop. In a shootout in which several officers are killed, Pinker manages to escape.
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| Release date: | October 27, 1989 |
| Directed by: | Wes Craven |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 110 Minutes |
| Producer: | Barin Kumar, Wes Craven, Marianne Maddalena |
| Music by: | Michael Bruce, William Goldstein |
| Screenplay by: | Wes Craven |
| Estimated budget: | $10,000,000 |
| Genre: | Thriller, Comedy |