Name: Combat Shock
Genre: Horror, War
Released: 1986-10-17
Duration: 1 h 25 min

Combat Shock (1984)

Directed by Buddy Giovinazzo

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3
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Synopsis by Eleanor Mannikka

This violent film follows the miserable life of a miserable Vietnam vet as it goes from awful, to disgusting, to almost ludicrous (the life and the film). First the vet helps slaughter the inhabitants of a village during the war and then he is captured and tortured for two years. After that scenario, he winds up in a low-life neighborhood in New York owing drug money, saddled with a chunky, nagging, ugly wife and a little baby who inherited his mother's genes. One gory scene follows another until the climax which is meant to be the shocker that caps it all.

Characteristics

Moods

Abandon All Hope

Themes

Drug Trade | Home From the War | Nothing Goes Right

Keywords

disillusionment, Agent-Orange, battle-fatigue, birth-defects, depression, drug-dealer, homecoming, imprisonment, low-life, massacre, nightmare, POW (Prisoner of War), prostitute/prostitution, rampage, revenge, torture, veteran [military], weapons, wife