(movie) Combat Shock(1984) one of the most disturbing and greatest movies!

Can you imagine Vietnam war movie, Death Wish, Taxi Driver all in one movie? I can! This is Combat Shock my dear ghouls, welcome to one of the most disturbing and best movies I have seen in a while. Directed and written by Buddy Giovinazzo and starring Rick Giovinazzo this disturbing war drama is about very disturbed Vietnam veteran Frankie who lives in horrible conditions in ruined flat with his wife Cathy and his monster mutated baby, victim of Agent Orange which Frankie got spilled on in war. He also has constant nightmares about massacre in a Vietnam village from which he escaped but was later imprisoned. His father is some rich politician, but he does not speak with Frankie. Desperate and in debt to local gangster crew, Frankie does what he thinks he has to do until the bitter, poetic and one of the most disturbing endings of movies I have ever watched. This is a masterpiece and I am proud that I have it in my collection. But, beneath it all, it tells the tale of forgotten veterans that gave their health, minds, sanity to their country in meaningless wars but then their country has forsaken them and left them to dig through the garbage bins. I love this movie. But I can not watch it whenever. This one needs a special state of mind. Go see it!

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