Movie

Combat Shock
1986 · 97 min
A relentless descent into urban despair and PTSD, blending gritty realism with hallucinatory horror for an deeply unsettling experience.
- Directed by
- Buddy Giovinazzo
- Genres
- War, Drama, Horror
- Starring
- Rick Giovinazzo, Veronica Stork, Mitch Maglio
- Tagline
- Fighting, killing, maiming. Agent Orange and the torture cages were the easy part!
- Overview
- A dangerously disturbed Vietnam veteran struggles with life 15 years after his return home, and slowly falls into insanity from his gritty urban lifestyle.
- How it feels
- Bleak, dark, tense and melancholic. Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Trauma, madness, politics, death
- Content
- Strong violence, gore and language. Mild sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Buddy Giovinazzo
- Genres
- War, Drama, Horror
- Starring
- Rick Giovinazzo, Veronica Stork, Mitch Maglio


