Post by doomedbloodwork on Dec 19, 2004 7:56:59 GMT -5
PSYCHO, both film and novel, put the concept on the map, but there was another film released around the same time that dealt with it with even more extreme purpose, all the more so considering the time and year it was made. It was banned in the UK for four decades and has only just surfaced on DVD.
SHOCK CORRIDOR, directed by Samuel Fuller, who directed Mark Hamill in THE BIG RED ONE, adapted his film from a story called LUNATIC and was influenced by a French thriller some years before. The plot involves a reporter who poses, CUCKOO'S NEST-fashion, as a mental patient in order to expose a murderer who is in the facility. However, all is not what it seems.
I bring this movie to the attention of other Fight-Evil members, simply because it has a resonance and power within it's 95 minute running time that rivals other more recent movies in the genre (SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, HENRY). It is psychologically terrifying and intense and I did find it uncomfortable to watch.
SHOCK CORRIDOR, directed by Samuel Fuller, who directed Mark Hamill in THE BIG RED ONE, adapted his film from a story called LUNATIC and was influenced by a French thriller some years before. The plot involves a reporter who poses, CUCKOO'S NEST-fashion, as a mental patient in order to expose a murderer who is in the facility. However, all is not what it seems.
I bring this movie to the attention of other Fight-Evil members, simply because it has a resonance and power within it's 95 minute running time that rivals other more recent movies in the genre (SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, HENRY). It is psychologically terrifying and intense and I did find it uncomfortable to watch.
