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Shock Corridor (1963)

Drama | 101 minutes
3,53 128 votes

Genre: Drama / Mystery

Duration: 101 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Samuel Fuller

Stars: Peter Breck, Constance Towers and Gene Evans

IMDb score: 7,3 (13.858)

Releasedate: 25 September 1963

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Shock Corridor plot

"… opens the door to sights you've never seen before!"

Johnny Barrett is an ambitious journalist eager to win the Pulitzer Prize by solving a murder case in an asylum. The only witnesses are patients from the asylum, from whose statements the police were unable to conclude. Barrett manages to have himself declared insane so that he is sent to the asylum, where he wants to quietly investigate the matter.

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ToNe

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Can be described as a cold and claustrophobic One Flew...

There are three witnesses that the protagonist wants to interrogate in the rare moments when they are of their senses.

What is remarkable about this film is that social criticism is expressed by the 'crazy'. Talk about cynical undertones.

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Those who love pure, visual cinema will not be able to take their eyes off the screen when they see Samuel Fuller's bizarre, controversial, intriguing and exciting thriller. Johnny Barrett [Peter Breck] is an investigative journalist determined to reveal the identity of the perpetrator of an institutional murder. The police have interviewed three key witnesses, but they are all patients whose testimony was found to be incoherent and unreliable. Johnny decides to go undercover by convincing a psychiatrist that he has incestuous fantasies about his 'sister', in reality his stripper girlfriend Cathy [Constance Towers] so that he is admitted to the institution where the murder was committed. There he tries to gain the trust of the three witnesses, but to do so he must remain in his role towards both the staff and his fellow patients.

The scenes where we look inside the heads of the patients are stunning cinematographic masterpieces and a lot of attention has clearly been paid to the unique personalities (and tics) of each patient. There is a man who constantly sticks one arm straight out, a patient with a passion for opera and Johnny also unintentionally gets acquainted with the nymphomaniacs, who have their own department. Fuller aims to take you as a viewer out of your comfort zone and succeeds time and time again, especially when Hari Rhodes makes his appearance in an extremely daring - but brilliantly played - role that is still very controversial in 2019.

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Fisico

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A man with an IQ of 140 who wants to deceive everyone by having himself locked up in a psychiatric hospital to solve a murder. It seems like an intriguing plot, but the longer I watched the movie, the more questions I asked myself. The story is shaky on all sides, although I still found it interesting enough to follow.

I don't know what good to think of the acting. Not easy in this context. Theatrical or not at all? Very expressive, that's the least you can say about it. A short fragment in color here and there, but no idea what the reason was for that.

Visually I didn't think it was bad. Long clinical corridors, the camera also close to the skin. It sometimes gave an oppressively uncomfortable feeling. A forced and actually quite simple plot that ends with a predictable karma. Difficult to judge, it seems like a guilty pleasure.

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