With an intriguing enough premise and horror legend Wes Craven on writer-director duty, the real Shocker here is just how lame the end results turned out to be.
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Movie Info
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Director -
Wes Craven -
Producer -
Marianne Maddalena , Barin Kumar -
Screenwriter -
Wes Craven -
Distributor -
Universal Pictures -
Production Co -
Carolco Pictures Inc. , Alive Films -
Rating -
R -
Genre -
Horror -
Original Language -
English -
Release Date (Theaters) -
Oct 27, 1989, Limited -
Release Date (Streaming) -
Sep 11, 2015 -
Box Office (Gross USA) -
$15.5M -
Runtime -
1h 51m -
Sound Mix -
Surround