Shock Corridor Comments

  • Lola 2023-09-03 23:09:19

    "Corridor of Horror" CC Collection No. 19, works by Samuel Fuller. Reporter Johnny is about to investigate a murder in an insane asylum for the Pulitzer Prize, so he pretends to be a mental patient to find the answer. He investigates three witnesses, a soldier who goes mad in the shadow of war, a black student who drives racism crazy, politics The physicist under duress, the final answer surfaced, Johnny went crazy, and ironically, he also won a Pulitzer Prize for...

  • Carley 2023-09-01 12:12:43

    Euripides: "Whom God wishes to destroy he first makes...

  • Icie 2023-08-16 08:10:03

    The audiovisual of Samuel_Fuller's schizophrenic episode was amazing. Black & White/Color -...

  • Theodore 2023-08-12 21:50:49

    Flying into a lunatic asylum, tidying up the look and feel is average, and the criticism is not...

  • Estevan 2023-08-09 17:22:22

    A certifiably insane expose in pulpy Fuller style on America's problems: institutional racism, McCarthyism witch hunting, nuclear testing, society's misunderstanding of the mentally ill, electroconvulsive shock therapy, sexual perversion, incest, yellow journalism,...

  • Darrion 2023-08-09 07:44:23

    Speaking of something else, Daniel Samuel Fuller (JB starred in a play he set in the Philippines), the heroine Constance Towers cameo in 2000 Malibu Road, the striptease has become a classic, and is quoted every now and...

  • Treva 2023-07-29 09:07:15

    "If God wants to destroy a man, he first makes him mad" - Euripides, 425 BC; reality and fantasy in black and white and color; the final split is compared to a storm; psychopaths of all colors, remember "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Twelve Monkeys"; seeing a portrait that doesn't look like himself, doesn't think he's seeing a prisoner is necessarily accurate; a real lunatic doesn't know he's a lunatic; the director's picture appears on the strip girl's...

  • Kristina 2023-07-20 22:53:15

    B-grade film C-grade idea D-grade...

  • Doris 2023-06-21 14:05:55

    7.5 is a very powerful, cinematic drama. The madhouse is not only a stage for displaying movie symbols, but also a psychological space for shadow casting and mental fission. There are still some flaws in the continuity of the editing and special action. Fuller does not care about the details, but the overall situation is...

  • Jean 2023-06-02 23:55:04

    4.3 The processing of sound effects is quite interesting, like listening to the radio, it was brought in for no reason. But I always feel that some short shots have deliberate breakpoints.... The metaphor points to strong and tough through sound, picture, and...

Extended Reading

Shock Corridor quotes

  • Dr. L.G. Cristo: A man can't tamper with a mind by living in a mental hospital and go through all kinds of tests and expects to come out of it sane.

  • Cathy: He was sane enough to write that story. He's been sane for weeks. Don't you stand there and tell me there's nothing you can do for him. Why? Why does he look like that?

    [Pan left to see Johnny sitting there motionless]

    Cathy: Oh, god in heaven...

Shock Corridor

Director: Samuel Fuller

Language: English Release date: September 25, 1963