Review: Wes Cravens Shocker (1989)

Stars: Mitch Pileggi, Camille Cooper

Budget: $10m

Directed By: Wes Craven

So Shocker, yeah Wes Craven. Sorry and i know this is going to get me some ire from horror fans especially the die hard fans of this film, of which i know there's a dedicated following.
I did not like this its a mixed up jumbled mess of a film to me. Released at a time where quite a few films had electric chair based horror bad guys.
House 3 (or the horror show), this and The chair a few months earlier.

Like i said this film doesn't know whether it's coming or going in the plot with fake outs, dream sequences and other ways to confuse you.
Now i would expect Wes to pull this out of the hat, the guy was a amazing writer, with Nightmare on elm Street but this was just no where near that level.
As you can tell by the lack of franchise. It does have some performances especially from Mitch Pileggi as the titular bad guy. I'm just happy that this little hiccup led to Wes doing things like new nightmare and the whole slasher revival phase in the 90's.

right just to really summarize this film, after a few fake out dream sequences of varying people being killed. The main cops son (Jonathan) somehow gets linked mentally, psychically?
To Mitch's killer Pinker, this leads them to apprehend him as he's a serial killer anyway.
Pinker reveals he's electrocuted that he's Jonathan's dad.

Pinker has somehow made a deal with the devil that allows him to come back as electricity?
Somehow this allows him to possess others, double ??
I don't get it either, he starts killing others while possessing these people. One person possessed Lt Parker manages to fight off Pinker's control. Now they know Jonathan and some others concoct a plan to try and fight back now.
As with a lot of these films the beating of the bad guy involves making back into a physical form again so they can kill him properly. But that's not actually how they beat him in the very end.
Despite not being overly fond the film it's not bad enough to spoil the ending for you, you might like it after all.
THN awards Shocker 2 stars out of 5.