Combat Shock
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| Combat Shock | |
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| Directed by | Buddy Giovinazzo |
| Produced by | Buddy Giovinazzo |
| Written by | Buddy Giovinazzo |
| Starring | Ricky Giovinazzo Veronica Stork Mitch Maglio Asaph Livni |
| Music by | Ricky Giovinazzo |
| Cinematography | Stella Varveris |
| Editing by | Buddy Giovinazzo |
| Distributed by | Troma Entertainment |
| Release date(s) |  May 14, 1986 |
| Running time | 90 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $40,000 (estimated) |
Combat Shock is a 1986 drama film written and directed by Buddy Giovinazzo and distributed by Troma Entertainment.
The plot of the film takes place in Staten Island, and follows an unemployed Vietnam veteran living in total poverty with his nagging wife, his deformed baby due to Ricky having been exposed to Agent Orange that the US was spraying as a defoliant over Vietnam, 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 ending is as extreme as it gets.
The film received mixed reviews when it was released. Film Threat's Christopher Curry praised the film for its gritty realism, and Troma president Lloyd Kaufman calls it one of the company's true "masterpieces"; however, shockcinemamagazine.com called it "one of the ugliest, nastiest, most depressing movies of the decade" (though the review itself was a positive one), 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!
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[edit] Filming
The movie is set in and was largely filmed in the Port Richmond section of Staten Island, where the main character dwells in apocalyptic squalor.[1] It's Port Richmond's gritty streetscapes that assist in getting Giovinazzo's desired point across. The film has often been hailed for its raw depiction of inner city life, the struggles of poverty and the plight of veterans returning home from war.[2]
The movie was shot on a modest budget causing the battlefield scenes to be shot in marshland across from the Staten Island Mall.
[edit] Tromasterpiece Collection
The Tromasterpiece Collection, set on re-releasing Troma's finest movies, have released a 2-disc uncut version of 'Combat Shock', also featuring the original workprint of the film entitled 'American Nightmares', on July 28, 2009.
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