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Combat Shock is a 1986 drama film
Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth characterization of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, crime and corruption put the characters in conflict with themselves, others, society and even natural phenome...
 written and directed by Buddy Giovinazzo
Buddy Giovinazzo

Buddy Giovinazzo is an American born independent filmmaker and author who is probably best known for his gritty & low budget debut film, Combat Shock, and for his collection of harrowing short stories of urban life in his 1993 novel, Life is Hot in Cracktown....
 and distributed by Troma Entertainment
Troma Entertainment

Troma is a film production and distribution company founded by Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz in 1974. The company produces very low-budget independent movies, many of which have developed cult film....
.

The plot of the film takes place in Staten Island
Staten Island

Staten Island is a borough of New York City, situated almost entirely on the island of the same name in the extreme southwest part of the city....
, and follows an unemployed Vietnam
Vietnam War

The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina Wars, the Vietnam Conflict, or often in Vietnam the American War occurred in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia from 1959 to April 30, 1975....
 veteran living in total poverty with his nagging wife, his deformed baby due to Ricky having been exposed to Agent Orange
Agent Orange

Agent Orange is the code name for a powerful herbicide and defoliant used by the United States armed forces in its Herbicidal Warfare program during the Vietnam War....
 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.






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Combat Shock is a 1986 drama film
Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth characterization of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, crime and corruption put the characters in conflict with themselves, others, society and even natural phenome...
 written and directed by Buddy Giovinazzo
Buddy Giovinazzo

Buddy Giovinazzo is an American born independent filmmaker and author who is probably best known for his gritty & low budget debut film, Combat Shock, and for his collection of harrowing short stories of urban life in his 1993 novel, Life is Hot in Cracktown....
 and distributed by Troma Entertainment
Troma Entertainment

Troma is a film production and distribution company founded by Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz in 1974. The company produces very low-budget independent movies, many of which have developed cult film....
.

The plot of the film takes place in Staten Island
Staten Island

Staten Island is a borough of New York City, situated almost entirely on the island of the same name in the extreme southwest part of the city....
, and follows an unemployed Vietnam
Vietnam War

The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina Wars, the Vietnam Conflict, or often in Vietnam the American War occurred in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia from 1959 to April 30, 1975....
 veteran living in total poverty with his nagging wife, his deformed baby due to Ricky having been exposed to Agent Orange
Agent Orange

Agent Orange is the code name for a powerful herbicide and defoliant used by the United States armed forces in its Herbicidal Warfare program during the Vietnam War....
 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
Film Threat

Film Threat is a magazine and a webzine about independent film, published and edited by Chris Gore. However, the webzine also reviews DVDs of mainstream films such as Man of La Mancha , to which Phil Hall gave a favorable review contrary to those of most critics....
 Christopher Curry praised the film for its gritty realism, and Troma president Lloyd Kaufman
Lloyd Kaufman

Lloyd Kaufman is an United States film director, Film producer, screenwriter and occasional actor. With producer Michael Herz , he is the co-founder of Troma Entertainment, the world's longest running independent film studio, and the director of many of their feature films, including the cult classic The Toxic Avenger and the critically...
 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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