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Shock Corridor

Shock Corridor

Drama Thriller Mystery

1963, Movie, 1h 42min

In SHOCK CORRIDOR, the great American writer-director-producer Samuel Fuller masterfully charts the uneasy terrain between sanity and madness. Seeking a Pulitzer Prize, reporter Johnny Barrett (Peter Breck) has himself committed to a mental hospital to investigate a murder. As he closes in on the killer, insanity closes in on him. Constance Towers costars as Johnny’s coolheaded stripper girlfriend. With its startling commentary on racism and other hot-button issues in sixties America and its daring photography by Stanley Cortez, SHOCK CORRIDOR has had far-reaching influence.

Country: United States

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Chuck Roberson,

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Kasper Løvborg

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9

Fuller takes on insanity with a picture full of terrific ideas and quite a bit of humor.

5 years ago

Critic Kim Newman

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10

Stark, harsh and black and white, with bravura freak-outs.

Read full review at Empire

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Shock Corridor include Suddenly, Last Summer, In the Heat of the Night, Lady in a Cage, The Magus, Anatomy of a Murder, Murder Most Foul.