Review – Shocker

Wes Craven tries his best to get a new series started along the same lines as his mega-successful Nightmare on Elm Street movies. Though he follows his own formula fairly closely, this one somehow comes up short. Here the evil spirit’s magic power is the ability to move around using power lines and/or body contact, a trick he learned via a combination of supernatural ritual and electrocution. It’s not all that bad a concept, and it’s not all that bad a movie. It just never quite seems to take off, and thus it never quite managed to catch on. Mildly amusing