Btexxamar I like Black Panther, but I didn't like this movie.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

tomgillespie2002 Certainly lacking in wise-cracking rubber monsters and outlandishly- dressed brain-dead punks, Combat Shock - a serious, if extremely low- budget drama/psychological horror by writer/director/producer Buddy Giovinazzo - proves that Troma Entertainment occasionally took their movies seriously. The shell-shocked Vietnam veteran story had been done many times before, and certainly a lot better, but never quite as unsettling. Far from a masterpiece, and riddled with terrible production values, Combat Shock nevertheless is a glowing statement as to just what scraping-the-piggy-bank film-making can sometimes offer.After an event during the Vietnam War that left a village dismembered and massacred, Frankie Dunlan (Rick Giovinazzo - brother to Buddy), struggles to adapt to civilian life. Living in poverty, unable to find work, and saddled with a whining wife (Veronica Stork) and a deformed baby, he is about the have the worst day of his life. Owing money to a group of drug-dealing punks, led by Paco (Mitch Maglio), Frankie wanders the battered streets of his native New York, coming into contact with various low-lives and looking for any way to make a buck. Seemingly without hope, and terrified to go back to his starving family empty- handed, he resorts to an act of violence.You could imagine running a finger along the negative of Combat Shock and immediately needing to wash your hands afterwards. The movie seems awash with grime, and the streets Frankie wanders down have an almost apocalyptic quality. This is utterly depressing stuff, nearly entirely devoid of laughs, where the types of people Frankie befriends are gun- wielding junkies or child prostitutes. It's sometimes laughably pessimistic, a journey into utter depravity, and combined with some extremely amateurish production values and an occasionally plodding narrative, can be a bit of a slog to get through at times.Yet for all it's sloppy editing and wide-eyed, over-the-top thesping, it is at times extremely effective. The baby, horribly disfigured due to Frankie's exposure to Agent Orange, looks cheap, but the way it moves and sounds, combined with the dump that surrounds it, is just as disturbing as Eraserhead (1977). There is also a horrible moment when a junkie, unable to find a needle for his fix, opens his damaged arm with a coat hanger and pours heroin into his black, bleeding vein. Some will find it's relentless depravity too much to take, but there's a gritty honesty here, going deep into the dark heart of a post-Vietnam America, where traumatised Vets were hung out to dry by a country that had forgotten them.www.the-wrath-of-blog.blogspot.com

Grim Frog I've seen this movie on countless "most disturbing movies" lists and being a..errrr...disturbing movie junkie(?) i gave it a watch. Wow, was it a let down. The plot is very generic, the pacing is excruciating and there are dozens of scenes that add absolutely nothing to the plot. I don't think I've shrugged and said "What the fu** was that?" while watching a movie so many times in my life. One of the things that bugged me most about this movie is its score. its so god damned annoying that it gave me a headache and i had to turn the volume down but not only that the sound effects used for simple things such as water dripping from the faucet drove me into a fit of annoying digitized bad stock sound rage. For you gore hounds there is maybe 30 seconds of somewhat decent effects around the 13 minute mark, other than that the other "gore" effects consists of what appear to be ketchup and rootbeer. The things i liked about this film? The baby. I loved the puppet they used, not because its disturbing but because it has this just awesome low budget creepy look to it and i was impressed with the fact that it blinks. Oh, but don't forget that you are watching combat shock....so the baby constantly makes an absolutely horrible digitized cry in every scene it is in. I also liked the bleak slummy atmosphere of the apartment/neighborhood andddd thats about it. So should you watch combat shock? my recommendation is pass up this one. If you do end up watching it don't be afraid to fast forward a hour into the film. you wont be missing a thing at all.

zombietackle this must be on the the most well done low budget films of all time, not in entertainment, but it just good film making. the movie centers around a nam' vet who, after coming home, sees his friends have gone to poverty, and searches for a job to help his wife and mutated baby. the war scenes are shot well, and some interesting effects were used to show flash backs, such as projecting footage onto the actors face. the end is were the movie really peaks, as our "hero" returns home to "save" his family, by killing them. do not watch this film if you are depressed, or become depressed easily. if you are a fan of low budget film making, or you want to get a new look on war movies, check this film out. 10/10

fullboostorbust You have read all about the plot, so here is something a little deeper. I just wanted to clear up a few things, I have read a lot of comments on this film and read it was filmed in New Jersey. This is incorrect. This movie was shot in my neighborhood of Port Richmond on Staten Island, New York. Google it, its not NJ, guys. I work a block away from the rail yard that is shown very often in the film, and actually hung out down there in my teens. Because of this, the movie really hit home and stayed with me for a while. I just watched Combat Shock for the first time in 2008 at 28yrs old. And Port Richmond sure did look bleak back in 86, apocalyptic is more the word. I recognized most of the streets and it was depressing, and nostalgic for me to see my neighborhood in such ruins. Port Richmond ave has now populated much more, 90% by illegal immigrants. Most of the businesses that are run down in the film are now active with furniture shops, Mexican food joints and 99 cent stores. But the rail yard remains the same, though non functional for the last 20 years. A total run down abandon hole in the ground ravished with graffiti, bums and littered with empty drug baggies. I thought the film was great, and was even better being a sort of time capsule for me. I can't get this movie out of my head. It was like a window into the darkest crevices of my town, the places I would think about and fear growing up.