Combat Shock


Combat Shock is a 1986 drama film written and directed by Buddy Giovinazzo and distributed by Troma Entertainment.

The film begins with stock footage scenes of warfare in Vietnam. An American soldier named Frankie Ricky Giovinazzo is seen running alone through the jungle swamp as his voice narrates. He explains that he goes back there every night right before he wakes up in bed with his wife in their squalid NYC apartment located somewhere in northern Staten Island. The distorted cries of his baby are heard, and his pregnant wife wakes up to tend to the boy. They argue over Frankies unemployment and their sons health. The baby is a mutant, portrayed by a puppet. Frankie assumes it was a result of his exposure to chemical weapons used during the war.The bulk of the film consists of long sequences of urban blight underscored by Ricky Giovinazzos synthesizer soundtrack as Frankie walks the streets and interacts with various people. A homeless junkie walks up to Frankie and asks for some spare change, but Frankie refuses because he has no money. The junkie neverless works up enough dollars from begging and buys some heroin from the local kingpin, Paco. The junkie desperately searches for a needle to shoot up with. The junkie resorts to dumping the drugs directly onto a wound he opens in his arm with a rusted coat hanger wire and passes out. A random woman walks by and steals his gun and ammunition, putting them in her purse. ........

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