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Shock Corridor

1963
Drama, Mystery
1h 41m
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Rated 05 Dec 2009
8
84th
"Oh. Nymphos." Granted: It IS highly unrealistic, but it is also thematically interesting and surprisingly creepy, strange and unnerving. Add to that a broad selection of convincing performances and Fuller's keen eye for details and pacing, and you've got yourself one really good movie.
Rated 26 Aug 2008
77
51st
It's a silly movie with over-the-top acting, and yet the strangeness of it all is oddly alluring. The visuals, especially, are very appropriate to madness of the film. The blunt messages of the film are all really forced, but frankly it doesn't hurt the enjoyment that much.
Rated 01 Aug 2012
82
76th
Once I realized just how silly this movie was going to be I settled in and had a blast. The comically absurd depiction of mental illness combined with an indictment of war and bigotry makes for some fantastic scenes and imagery.
Rated 08 Dec 2012
85
94th
Fuller takes on insanity with a picture full of terrific ideas and quite a bit of humor.
Rated 01 Apr 2007
84
50th
The film grabs hold of the audience, pauses for effect and booms, "I AM IMPOTENT, AND I LIKE IT!"
Rated 12 Dec 2007
72
47th
The social message is a bit blunt (nationalism, racism, and nuclear arms are mad, I tell you!), and the view of schizophrenia is outdated. Still, it's not badly done for what it is. And it's good to see Philip Ahn in a role that isn't some "sinister Oriental" stereotype.
Rated 13 Jun 2008
91
91st
Deliciously vulgar and blunt. A real treat for fans of insanity and the morbid.
Rated 20 Dec 2006
63
22nd
I'm no expert, but this seems like a very cartoonish depiction of insanity. Also the way it addresses society's ills is rather ham-fisted. But, you know, it was still okay.
Rated 21 Feb 2010
4
74th
Hamfisted and a little silly, yes, but it packs a vigorous punch. As it descends into deeper levels of insanity, Fuller's technique becomes more pronounced. There are a number of fantastic set-pieces, my favorite involving an in-door thunderstorm.
Rated 02 Oct 2020
40
32nd
Depictions of mental illness were ludicrous. The plot is hair-brained at best. The nympho ward was particularly inane. A lot of it is loud, stupid, and highly contrived. Some of the acting performances were awful. The story is bizarre and scrambled. It was kind of funny that it's a B&W but has color daydream sequences. Perhaps the journalist suffered from sleep deprivation? The black KKK guy was way over the top. Much of it was tedious and tiresome, but like a train wreck, you can't look away.
Rated 02 Mar 2008
64
42nd
# 715
Rated 28 Jun 2013
64
69th
Gets better and better as it goes on.
Rated 26 Jul 2017
83
82nd
This would be an upper tier movie but some of the ideas within the hospital are just too hokey. Ending is kind of interesting tho.
Rated 04 Oct 2007
85
88th
Not too much crapola this time from Fuller (though there is some of it of course). And anyway, it's in an asylum, so that stuff fits right in.
Rated 04 Nov 2019
84
75th
Fascinating film, even more so today than I suspect it was in 1963. We live in a world of the therapeutic diagnosis now--everyone has something, as people increasingly see themselves as sick or diseased. The film reveals the disturbing ways in which playing a part, adopting a schema of trauma (or whatever else) can lead to devastating, life-altering consequences.
Rated 05 May 2008
5
80th
This doesn't work on any realistic terms - I'm not sure why this works - it just does. Probably my Fuller fanboy coming out.
Rated 19 Jul 2014
6
83rd
bizarre and really quite absurd picture of psychosis. i came into this film with low expectations due to issues i've had with other fuller films, and while they weren't fully solved, this works on such an unrealistic level that it'd be difficult to make any criticism in that respect. instead it's a subjective feeling of descent into insanity - how fuller might imagine his own descent, i suppose. i have to say i really enjoyed the experience.
Rated 13 Oct 2007
25
12th
Just bad. The plot is erratic, the morality is shopworn, the depiction of mental illnesses and the text in general are completely unrealistic and much of the acting is terrible (Constance Towers' especially). I really don't see why this is so well liked.
Rated 01 Jan 2014
20
9th
Awful acting and a completely predictable script.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
55
53rd
Score based on distant memory.
Rated 30 Nov 2011
69
38th
#624
Rated 15 Sep 2013
92
97th
The most powerful statement on journalism ever made -- corridor = street --, but also a masterpiece in its overall madness and flashes of sanity that it feels impossible not to be stunned by it. As Johnny gets disturbed by each one of the three witnesses of a murder -- a former communist who thinks he's at Gettysburg, a black university student in love with the KKK, a physicist who helped to create the atomic bomb --, Fullers writes history through shadows and somber halls, depicting mad times.
Rated 23 Apr 2011
4
38th
Watchable due to the visuals (blank walls, stark shadows; atmosphere) and the solid pacing, but the depiction of mental illness is very silly, often to the point of bemusement.
Rated 05 Nov 2008
40
10th
Didn't grip me one bit. It looked like every actor had never set foot in an asylum at all. Terrible.
Rated 30 Jan 2014
60
34th
Careless jump cuts, an elementary view of mental illness and a so-so story. I don't know why this got it's own Criterion spine instead of Fuller's much better 'The Steel Helmet'
Rated 02 Apr 2011
100
95th
watched: 2011, 2013, 2015
Rated 16 Aug 2012
75
42nd
Unbelievably erratic, dark and bizarre, almost experimental. The literal depiction of insanity is certainly inane, but it's made entertaining by a thick coat of pitch-black humor. It feels a little empty by the end, but it's too left-field to ignore.
Rated 11 Aug 2009
81
57th
Mostly fascinating, though the first person voice-overs seem a little unnecessary and the social commentary is a little too conveniently placed. Peter Breck delivers a pretty good performance.
Rated 01 Dec 2006
90
95th
Who knew Sam Fuller fucking RULES! Way cool film about a Journalist pretending to be a nutbar to solve a murder. Though all the cast are exellent, Hari Rhodes steals though the show as a black dude convinced he's a white supremacist. Don't just see it, OWN it!
Rated 15 Jan 2010
66
32nd
677
Rated 27 Aug 2007
100
95th
One of the most nightmarish movies ever made that's not technically horror. Thank you again, Mr. Fuller
Rated 22 Jun 2009
98
97th
revisto no dia 16 de setembro de 2023
Rated 21 Nov 2011
1
0th
Nymphos! Watch it! Score is not a grade
Rated 20 Sep 2014
4
55th
i am impotent, and i like it!
Rated 08 Mar 2010
85
66th
Outrageous, sleazy, but still a powerhouse movie by maverick director Fuller. This starkly photographed black-and-white film features agonizing close-ups, a pint-size stripper perched on a pillow case, a black man in a KKK hood screaming racial slurs, color flashbacks unabashedly snipped from movie travelogues, a squad of malevolent "nymphos," and a violent thunderstorm raging in a hospital corridor. Not completely successful, but it sticks in the mind longer than many "perfect" movies.
Rated 30 Jul 2011
75
64th
The more I think about it the more I like it.
Rated 07 Apr 2012
65
54th
It's a pretty cool concept, but I found most of it mediocre. Okay, that's probably unfair. It wasn't mediocre. It was made very well. Technically speaking, it was brilliant. I just didn't connect with it. The portrayal of the patients and their mental illnesses was oversimplified, for sure. I really don't have much else to say about it. The ending was great though.
Rated 26 Mar 2018
54
9th
So... Mental illness is contagious?
Rated 05 Oct 2018
78
89th
A good idea with a stupid set up made enthralling by Sam Fuller's direction. The overacting and pretty much non existent plot can't detract from the raw power that is shown on the screen. By far the best Sam Fuller film I've seen.
Rated 06 Aug 2019
30
22nd
I have no words beyond 'shockingly overrated'.
Rated 02 May 2020
80
81st
çılgın işi.
Rated 03 Jul 2020
9
87th
8+
Rated 09 Sep 2020
75
67th
"tanrı yok etmek istediği kişinin önce aklını alır" bu cümleyle başlayıp bitiyor. Akıl hastanesinde işlenen bir cinayeti çözüp Pulitzer ödülünü almak isteyen Johnny Barrett, akıl hastası numarası yaparak kendini hastaneye aldırır. Fakat bu arada gittikçe akılını yitirir. Hastanede eşini öldüren ve opera söyleyen bir adam, hala kendini 2ds sanan bir adam, kendisi zenciyken zencilere düşman olmuş bir ku klux klan mensubu adam, ünlü bir bilim adamıyken zekasın
Rated 13 Jan 2021
70
56th
Was any Hollywood-era director nearly as ambitious as Samuel Fuller? Not unlike his protagonist, Fuller treads the fine line between genius and insanity, taking aim at the American empire, entrenched racism, the Red Scare, and the war machine, all within the walls of a mental hospital. It doesn't entirely work but you have to respect the ambition. Beautifully filmed as well, such sharp B&W and silhouettes everywhere.
Rated 07 Feb 2021
70
41st
Definitely appreciate the balls of this film, especially back then. It's kind of nuts at times with some fun performances. But despite how interesting some of the characters are and how intriguing some of the interactions are, I had a hard time getting invested in it. Definitely good and original, though.
Rated 30 Mar 2021
40
5th
dumb dumb dumb dumb
Rated 05 Apr 2021
75
77th
a tad hysterical but a winning romp otherwise. colour sequences add a burst of flavour that'll leave your gums raw for days
Rated 09 May 2021
80
59th
I wonder what it was like to watch this upon its initial release? Watching in 2021, I share the sentiment of needing to "choose" to buy into it. Though conceptually, it trades in a straightforward parable for a paranoid political satire that Fuller clearly has fun with. It pushes past clunky exposition and arrives at some imaginatively immersive cinematic moments.
Rated 19 Sep 2021
60
35th
Quite a product of its time: this somehow takes a lot of our fears (politics, race, nuclear war) and crams them into a straightforward story about an overzealous reporter in an insane asylum. There's no question how this will wrap up, so have fun with the B-movie schlock that occasionally borders on great.

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