History Film / Shocker

* LukeIAmYourFather: At the moment of his execution, Pinker reveals to Jonathan that he is his father.

* OhCrap: During the first BodySurf chase scene, when Pinker leaps from the body of a small woman... into a massively muscled Construction Worker. Cue SlasherSmile.

* ScaryBlackMan: Jonathan's football team-mate who seems to have a thing about breaking people's necks.

The movie were supposed to launch a new VillainBasedFranchise akin to ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'', but low sales ended the plans for further installments.
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* AxCrazy: Pinker.

* BaldOfEvil: Pinker.

* BigNo

* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Pinker's aim is horrendous.
** He's likely [[GenreSavvy aware of this]], given his usual means of murder involves knives and tearing people apart with his ''bare hands''.

* PsychoElectro

* TheObiWan: Allison
** {{Spirit Advisor}}s: All the other people Pinker killed.

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* ButThisIsRidiculous: The Rosanne Barr {{Expy}} makes a crack of this nature.
-->I have heard about audience participation, but this is ridiculous!

* AndThisIsFor: Jonathan lists Pinker's victims as he forces him to thrash around with a remote control.

* {{Fingore}}: Pinker bites off a prison guard's finger.

* PeekABooCorpse: Pinker's soulless corpse gives one last care before burning away.

The film centers around young Jonathan Parker, who starts having PropheticDreams of SerialKiller Horace Pinker after he kills most of his foster family. Seeking justice, Jonathan turns to his police officer foster father and convinces him that he can track Pinker through his dreams. With Jonathan's help police are able to capture Pinker, who is sentenced to die in the electric chair. However, before the moment of his execution Pinker makes a DealWithTheDevil and becomes one with the electricity after his execution. This gives him the ability to possess the bodies of others, allowing him to continue his killing spree from beyond the grave.

* ChekhovsGift: The necklace that Jonathan gave to Allison before she was killed, comes back from the afterworld as means to stop Pinker .

* DealWithTheDevil :Pinker does this before going to the electic chair, and his new powers are given to him by a [[AnimateBodyParts disembodied mouth]] appearing from a television screen.

* DisneyAcidSequence: The final chase scene, which takes place ''[[TrappedInTVLand through the medium of television itself]]!'' Jonathan and Pinker weave in and out of the [[ColdWar riots in Berlin,]] a boxing match, an Music/AliceCooper concert, ''Series/LeaveItToBeaver'', stock footage of Atomic Bomb testing (with Pinker as ''the explosion''), ''Film/{{Frankenstein|1931}}'', a live Newscast (to the shock of the anchorman), World War II, and into a {{Roseanne}}-{{Expy}}'s house.

* IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight: Jonathan does this twice to people possessed by Pinker.

* NoBodyLeftBehind: After Pinker's now electrified soul leaves from his body, the corpse turns into ash.

* PowerOfLove: Allison's love for Jonathan enables her to help him from the other side.
* PropheticDreams: While Pinker is still alive, Jonathan can predict the next victims with the help of his dreams.

* ReligionOfEvil: Pinker worships the devil. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic Or the television]].

'''''Shocker''''' is a horror film directed by WesCraven which was released in 1989.

* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch

* DisneyAcidSequence: The final chase scene, which takes place ''[[TrappedInTVLand through the medium of television itself]]!'' Jonathan and Pinker weave in and out of the [[ColdWar riots in Berlin,]] a boxing match, Music/AliceCooper concert, ''Series/LeaveItToBeaver'', stock footage of Atomic Bomb testing (with Pinker as ''the explosion''), ''Film/{{Frankenstein|1931}}'', a live Newscast (to the shock of the anchorman), World War II, and into a {{Roseanne}}-{{Expy}}'s house.

* DisneyAcidSequence: The final chase scene, which takes place ''[[TrappedInTVLand through the medium of television itself]]!'' Jonathan and Pinker weave in and out of the [[ColdWar riots in Berlin,]] a boxing match, Music/AliceCooper concert, ''Series/LeaveItToBeaver'', stock footage of Atomic Bomb testing (with Pinker as ''the explosion''), ''Film/{{Frankenstein}}'', a live Newscast (to the shock of the anchorman), World War II, and into a {{Roseanne}}-{{Expy}}'s house.

[[quoteright:260:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shockerz.jpg]]

'''''Shocker''''' is a horror film directed by WesCraven which was released in 1989. It has nothing to do with a certain hand gesture, the evil organization from the first ''KamenRider'', or [[SpiderMan the Spider-Man villain.]]

* AndThisIsFor - Pinker is beaten, from a distance, by a remote control.
* AxeBeforeEntering
* BackupFromOtherworld
* BaldOfEvil - Pinker.
* BatterUp
* BehindTheBlack
* BodySurf - Pinker's special powers. He's very bad about selecting bodies with bad hearts, though.
* ButThisIsRidiculous - The Rosanne Barr {{expy}} makes a crack of this nature.
* CassandraTruth - Averted and played straight: Jonathan's friends immediately believe him when he says that Pinker is still alive, but [[PoliceAreUseless the police]] do not.
* ChekhovsGift - The necklace Jonathan gives to Allison before she is killed.
* CouldntFindAPen - Pinker leaves messages written in blood to taunt Jonathan.
* DeadlineNews
* DealWithTheDevil - Pinker does this, and his new powers are given to him by a [[AnimateBodyParts disembodied mouth]] appearing from a television screen.
-->'''Pinker''': "Come on! Give it to me!"
-->'''Mouth''': "You got it, baby."
* DisneyAcidSequence: The final chase scene, which takes place ''[[TrappedInTVLand through the medium of television itself]]!'' Jonathan and Pinker weave in and out of the [[ColdWar riots in Berlin,]] a boxing match, stock footage of Atomic Bomb testing (with Pinker as ''the explosion''), a live Newscast (to the shock of the Anchorman), World War II, and into a {{Roseanne}}-{{Expy}}'s house.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Played with... the necklace Jonathan wears (a token that he [[ThePowerOfLove gave to his girlfriend]] at the beginning of the movie) affects Pinker the way a Cross would affect a Vampire - badly. It can weaken Pinker's hold on [[BodySurf the person he is "wearing" at the time,]] and when he is corporeal it can destabilize him enough to drive him back into the airwaves.
* EvilLaugh
* FakingTheDead - This happens briefly before Pinker's execution.
* {{Fingore}}
* GetItOverWith
* GlamourFailure - Even when Pinker has a new body, he continues limping on his bad leg.
* HandyRemoteControl - Jonathan manages to get his hands on a TV-remote control during the {{chase scene}} through the television world, and uses it to mess with Pinker for a while.
* IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight - At least twice.
* ImColdSoCold - Allison says this when she appears on Jonathan's dreams for the first time.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy - Pinker's aim is horrendous.

* ImpersonatingAnOfficer
* InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt - This movie is often called ''Wes Craven's Shocker''.
* ItAlwaysRainsAtFunerals
* KnifeNut - Pinker prefers knives, even in undeath.
* LukeIAmYourFather - At the moment of his execution, Pinker reveals to Jonathan that he is his father.

* NeckSnap

* OffingTheOffspring

* OneWordTitle
* OurSoulsAreDifferent
* NoBodyLeftBehind - After Pinker's now electrified soul leaves from his body, the corpse turns into ash.
* PeekABooCorpse - One is found in a closet.
* PowerOfLove - Allison's love for Jonathan enables her to help him from the other side.
* PrepareToDie
* PropheticDreams - While Pinker is still alive, Jonathan can predict the next victims with the help of his dreams.

* ReadingYourRights
* [[RealMenWearPink Real Men Have Pink In Their Name]]
* ReligionOfEvil - Pinker worships the devil. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic Or the television]].

* RideTheLightning

* SlasherSmile - Pinker gives one to Jonathan while possessing the body of his stepfather.
* StuffedIntoTheFridge - [[KillTheCutie Allison's fate]] early in the movie.

* TrappedInTVLand - The last ChaseScene between Jonathan and Pinker takes place between television programs.
* VertigoEffect
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-->'''Mouth''': "You got it baby."

The movie were supposed to launch a new VillainBasedFranchise akin to ''ANightmareOnElmStreet'', but low sales ended the plans for further installments.

* [=~Chekhov's Gift~=] - The necklace Jonathan gives to Allison before she is killed.
* [=~Couldn't Find A Pen~=] - Pinker leaves messages written in blood to taunt Jonathan.

'''''Shocker''''' is a horror film directed by WesCraven which was released in 1989. It has nothing to do with [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean a certain hand gesture]], the evil organization from the first ''KamenRider'', or [[SpiderMan the Spider-Man villain.]]

* DisneyAcidSequence: The final chase scene, which takes place ''through the medium of television itself!'' Jonathan and Pinker weave in and out of the [[ColdWar riots in Berlin,]] a boxing match, stock footage of Atomic Bomb testing (with Pinker as ''the explosion''), a live Newscast (to the shock of the Anchorman), World War II, and into a {{Roseanne}}-{{Expy}}'s house.

* DisneyAcidSequence: The final chase scene, which takes place ''through the medium of television itself!'' Jonathan and Pinker weave in and out of the [[TheColdWar riots in Berlin,]] a boxing match, stock footage of Atomic Bomb testing (with Pinker as ''the explosion''), a live Newscast (to the shock of the Anchorman), World War II, and into a {{Roseanne}}-{{Expy}}'s house.

* DisneyAcipTripSequence: The final chase scene, which takes place ''through the medium of television itself!'' Jonathan and Pinker weave in and out of the [[TheColdWar riots in Berlin,]] stock footage of Atomic Bomb testing (with Pinker as ''the explosion''), a live Newscast (to the shock of the Anchorman), World War II, and into a {{Roseanne}}-{{Expy}}'s house.

* OhCrap: During the first BodySurf chase scene, when Pinker leaps from the body of a little girl... into a massively muscled Construction Worker. Cue SlasherSmile.

'''''Shocker''''' is a horror film directed by WesCraven which was released in 1989. [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean It has nothing to do with a certain hand gesture]] or [[SpiderMan the Spider-Man villain.]]