Combat Shock

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

The plot of the film follows an unemployed Vietnam veteran who lives in total poverty with his nagging wife, deformed baby, 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 film received mixed reviews when it was released. Film Threat's Christopher Curry praised the film for it's gritty realism, and Troma president Lloyd Kaufman goes as far as to call it one of the company's true "masterpieces". On the other side of the spectrum, however, shockcinemamagazine.com called it "one of the ugliest, nastiest, most depressing movies of the decade", 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!