October 23, 2006
An insane movie that takes place in a mental institution. The color sequences make the movie.
Chuck Roberson, Constance Towers, Frank Gerstle
The late Sam Fuller's feral nightmare about a gung-ho reporter seeking his Pulitizer story inside a mental institution. Sordid, subversive and slyly sobering.
DVD Release Date: August 25, 1998
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October 21, 2009What can you write on Samuel Fuller's work without looking like a moron? I don't want to resort to academic criticisms which sound empty to people who haven't studied film, but can FEEL when a film is good or bad.
Samuel Fuller's films ARE "bad". But his art is THE RE-DEFINITIO...( read more) -
March 13, 2009From "The Manchurian Candidate" to "Night of the Living Dead", so many films from the turbulent 60s reflect the conflicts, confusion, instability and turmoil of the era in which they were made. Few, however, managed to do it as literally "Shock Corridor".
When a reporter decides...( read more) -
June 16, 2009A reporter goes undercover in a mental hospital to find a killer.
Lots of good stuff. Think my favourite scenes where the monologues that the patients gave while the reporter was asking who killed so-and-so. (Yeah, my memory sucks.) -
June 13, 2009Shock Corridor is a psychodrama from the vigorously independent mind of American film auteur Samuel Fuller. i found it to be
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October 11, 2008If you've seen One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest then watching this movie, set in a mental ward, seems a little goofy. There are a few nice performances, but it seems mostly to be written by someone who has no idea what mentally insane people are really like.
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September 16, 2008A very eerie film. Fascinating to watch. The photography was wonderful.
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