Combat Shock (film)
Combat Shock
is a 1986 drama film written and directed by Buddy Giovinazzo and distributed
by Troma Entertainment.
The plot of the film follows an unemployed Vietnam veteran who lives in total poverty with his nagging wife, deformed baby, and junkie friends. Unable to get a job and surrounded by the depravity of urban life and crime, he begins to lose his grip on sanity.
The film received mixed reviews when it was released. Film Threat's Christopher Curry praised the film for it's gritty realism, and Troma president Lloyd Kaufman goes as far as to call it one of the company's true "masterpieces". On the other side of the spectrum, however, shockcinemamagazine.com called it "one of the ugliest, nastiest, most depressing movies of the decade", and Videohound described the film as "relentlessly bleak-you won't find a more depressing film outside an art-house cinema".
Tagline: Fighting, killing, maiming-Agent Orange and the torture
cages were the easy part!
Cast
Rick Giovinazzo
- Frankie Dunlan (as Ricky Giovinazzo)
Veronica Stork - Cathy Dunlan
Mitch Maglio - Paco (gang leader)
Asaph Livni - Labo (gang member)
Nick
Nasta - Morbe (gang member)
Michael Tierno - Mike (junkie)
Arthur Saunders
- Pimp
Lori Labar - Lead prostitute / Vietnamese woman
Jim Cooney -
Interogating GI
Ray Pinero - Welfare worker
Leo Lunney - Frankie's father
Eddie Pepitone - Terry (strung-out junkie)
Martin Blank - Doctor
Bob Mireau - Security guard
Tom Desantis - Man behind Frankie
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