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3 | ->''"I go back there every night, without fail."'' |
4 | -->-- '''Frankie''' |
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6 | ''Combat Shock'' is a 1986 action war drama released by [[Creator/{{Troma}} Troma Entertainment]]. |
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8 | The film follows a disturbed Vietnam veteran named Frankie Dunlan, whose sanity begins to slip from his life in the New York slums with depraved junkies, his naggy wife, and a baby that's severely deformed from his exposure to [[https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange&ved=0ahUKEwjn-tmc2dPjAhXhN30KHe6PBxkQFghzMA4&usg=AOvVaw3WI46I17RBFBqkgIGQH9nL Agent Orange]] during the war; all while struggling to find work to support him and his family. |
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10 | The movie was released in 1986 to very mixed reviews, but has since gotten a bit of a cult status. |
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13 | !! This film provides examples of the following tropes: |
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15 | * BMovie: It's a Troma film after all. |
16 | * BodyHorror: The baby, who has birth defects from Agent Orange due to Frankie being exposed to it. |
17 | * CreatorCameo: The voice of Frankie's deformed baby is provided by director Buddy Giovinazzo. |
18 | * DarkerAndEdgier: Quite possibly Creator/{{Troma}}'s darkest production ever made, with virtually none of the self-aware humor that characterizes the company's other productions. |
19 | * DownerEnding: [[spoiler: After failing to get any food or money, Frankie goes completely insane and kills his family, then commits suicide.]] |
20 | * DroneOfDread: When the soundtrack isn't sounding like an upbeat synth-pop instrumental, it's this. |
21 | * FromBadToWorse: [[spoiler:Frankie calls his dad up for money, turns out even he's broke and has a heart condition]] |
22 | * HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: One of Frankie's flashbacks sees a member of his squad being blasted in half by artillery fire. |
23 | * HenpeckedHusband: One of the many torments Frankie must endure is his shrewish wife, with whom he frequently argues over his unemployment and their son's health. |
24 | * IndustrialGhetto: The neighborhood where Frankie and his family live. |
25 | * {{Jerkass}}: Frankie's wife Cathy can come off as this. She's constantly nagging him and is pretty insensitive to his trauma from Vietnam. Granted, [[JerkassHasaPoint she's not wrong about Frankie needing a job and how serious their situation is]], but her constant nagging and her disregard for her husband's serious personal issues still make her come off as an insensitive jerk. |
26 | * ShellShockedVeteran: Frankie has flashbacks of being ambushed by an NVA squad and being tortured as a POW. |
27 | * SoundtrackDissonance: At times, the soundtrack has the feel of a jaunty 1980s synth-pop number, in jarring contrast to the grim subject matter. |
28 | * WarIsHell: Though what comes afterwards is arguably much, much worse for Frankie. |
29 | * WretchedHive: 1980s New York. Unemployment is at an all-time high, criminals, drug dealers and hookers roam the streets, and the neighborhoods are badly run-down. |
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