Shocker (1989)

Shocker (also known as Was Craven's Shocker) is a 1989 American comedy Horror film written and directed by Wes Craven and Michael Murphy Peter Berg Heather Langnkamp Cami Cooper and Mitch Pileggi The film was released Universal Studios on Ocobter 27 1989 to minor commercial success grossing over S16 million from a S5 million budget and critical failure having been criticized for being too derivative of Craven's earlier film A Nightmare on Elm Street.

A news report shows a victim being pulled away on a stretcher. its revealed that a serial killer, having killed over 30 people, is on the loose in Los Angeles, and a television repairman with a pronounced limp named Horace Pinker is the prime suspect. When the investigating homicide detective, Lt. Don Parker, gets too close, Horace murders Parker's family: his wife, foster daughter, and foster son.

However, his other foster son, Jonathan, develops a strange connection with Pinker through his dreams that leads Parker to Pinker's run-down shop, in which several Police officers are brutally murdered by Pinker one by one. Pinker escapes and targets Jonathan's girlfriend Allison in retribution. Another dream leads Parker and the Police to Pinker in the midst of a kidnapping. This time, just as he is about to kill Jonathan, he is arrested, is quickly convicted and sentenced to die in the electric chair.

Prior to his execution, Pinker reveals that Jonathan is, in fact his son, and as a boy shot him in the knee while trying to stop the murder of his mother. But what they do not realize is that Pinker made a deal with the Devil. When he is executed, he does not die, but becomes pure electricity. He is able to possess others including the prison staff and Jonathan's friends, to continue his murderous ways. He soon possesses Lt. Parker, who uses his strength to fight off Pinker, and Pinker escapes into a TV dish. Jonathan and his friends try to figure out a way to defeat Pinker once and for all.

They head to the city's power station to shut off the power. Jonathan, with the aid of Allison's spirit, devise a scheme to bring Pinker back into the real world and accidentally discover that he, as with all other energy sources, is bound to the real world. Jonathan uses this limitation to defeat Pinker and trap him in the television. Pinker threatens Jonathan that he'll find away out of his "prison." Allison's spirit tells Jonathan to take care of himself as his neighborhood suffers a blackout, caused by his friends blowing the power main, trapping Pinker in the television. Jonathan goes outside with his neighbors as they look up at the stars in the night sky, with Jonathan complimenting that they are beautiful, as does Allison.