If you took the movie TAXI DRIVER and ramped up the Vietnam angle, made it extra gory, threw in a bunch of 'Nam flashbacks, the baby from ERASERHEAD, junkies, suicides, murders and made the whole thing even more nihilistic-feeling you would get something like this. Better known under it's edited-down title of COMBAT SHOCK, this is the story of a crazy, screwed up vet who lives a shitty, seemingly hopeless existence, with his awful, nagging, fat wife and deformed, silly-putty-looking baby. Despite the terrible acting it's done in a pretty realistic fashion(except for one completely absurd scene of a junkie whose blood-flow defies the laws of science) and in a very guerrilla-film making style that non-snobby cinema lovers should appreciate. It also comments on the lower rungs of society in a way most films wouldn't ever care about doing.
This film probably would have been a bit more of a success if not for it's misleading ad-campaign(thanks to Troma) which tried to fool people into thinking it was another big 80's war flick which it's pretty far from. Then again this is overall a pretty big downer of a film viewing experience, not suitable for the mass of imbecilic, happy-faced drones that populate the majority of audiences.
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