On its 30th anniversary, we plug into Wes Craven’s outrageous attempt at a new iconic slasher villain with the body-hopping, TV-invading ‘Shocker!’ “...

Shocker (Blu-ray)

Wes Craven's "Shocker" (citywide) is a horror thriller about media technology infiltrated by a hellish maniac, an insane TV repairman named Horace Pinker (Mi...

Shocker may not be scary, but it is educational. For instance, did you know that fathers and sons regularly share an impenetrable psychic bond that manifests...

Mass killer recharges himself with TV sets. Remote control?

Our film critics on blockbusters, independents and everything in between.

At first glance (or at least for the first 40 minutes) Shocker seems a potential winner, an almost unbearably suspenseful, stylish and blood-drenched ride co...