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Review of by Stephen Holden for The New York Times — 22 Sep 1990

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With its freewheeling mixture of gore, surrealism and Freud, it will do almost anything to grab attention. If the movie's metaphors are as obvious and as portentous as the heavy metal music that punctuates the action, Shocker at least has the feel of a movie that was fun to make.

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This review of Shocker (1989) was written by and published by The New York Times on 22 Sep 1990.

Shocker has generally received mixed reviews.

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