Shocker 4K 1989

If you like the rest of Wes' movies, you'll like this one too. Significant featuring a currently trendy director - Peter Berg ('Kingdom') in the lead role and the presence of an acid guru (Timothy O 'Leary) in a cameo.

In my childhood, it was one of the scariest and funniest horror movies ever made. And I revisited it again with a certain amount of nostalgia for the eighties. Craven is inimitable here, too. Starting from the flight of his imagination in creating the plot itself (although nowadays, the story looks a bit naive, as well as the performance of many of the actors involved in the project (Berg, for example) ). But fear through tears of laughter. The theme of love is present, and even the moral. And it in this fable is uncomplicated - people, turning off the TV, perhaps you will pay attention to the stars.

I would not be surprised if in the coming years, there will be an attempt to make a remake of 'Shocker', using modern technology. Perhaps the movie will be much more scary and serious. But for sure, the magical charm will be lost.

Many modern directors, and even 'Freddy Krueger' (Robert Englund), who himself is now trying to shoot, and nothing but horror movies, do it so nasty that it makes you want to go back to the nice nightmares of the 80's again and again. Then the filmmakers had a desire not to scare, and not to disgust the viewer, but to entertain, and maybe distract from the horrors of vulgar and gray everyday life. That Wes succeeded magnificently in 'Shocker'.