Campy, but not in the good way.

A down and dirty film that isn't afraid to go where others will not tread, Combat Shock is a film that is hard to watch and hard to forget. The acting isn't the greatest, but the atmosphere is excellent. Don't go in expecting an action film, as the DVD cover suggests. This is more akin to something like Jacob's Ladder or, to a lesser extent, First Blood. It's about the decaying society that Vietnam vets returned to, and it's filled with memorable images. Music is pretty solid as well.

Totally amateurish one-guy-and-some-family-members production, but there's just something endearing about its creative spirit. Uncharacteristically for Troma, Combat Shock kind of tries to be serious, despite the paper-machet freak baby. And underneath the low-budget exploitative horror scenes, it isn't bad. It's a dark and meditative film. There's no telling how good this might have been if the directing and acting weren't unskilled, if the music and visual effects weren't comical.

The atmosphere and mood created here are by no means original, but they are not easy to scrub off. If you can get past the comically low-budget trappings, you'll find a reasonably well-crafted and directed film with a handful of quietly brilliant shots. Ignore the idiotic Rambo-esque DVD cover and any other indications that Troma had their "creative" claws in the film; for a "bad movie", it's really not that bad.

Essentially a mix of Taxi Driver and Eraserhead, but its cheapness, gritty setting and scuzzy amateurishness works in its favour.

Super low budget Vietnam vet war movie that has a completely bizarre deformed baby in it. This indie film is just so strange that you have to see it at least once. The low budget 80's actors are also pretty hilarious. The story is completely bleak but the director does achieve an interesting surreal quality to his film even if it is objectively bad in every other way.

Eraserhead with the existensial angst replaced with posttraumatic stress disorder. Giovinazzo may be as earnest as Lynch, but it's horseshit.

Not a good film, but there are infrequent flashes of power in this tale.

Very ugly horror film, and I mean that in a good way. Amateurish, but not a film you will soon forget