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Shock Corridor (1963)
Rate:
2
Viewed:
6/14
6/14:
Schlock Corridor is what a crap film looks like.
In fact, it's an art picture that goes nowhere while putting me to sleep. In a way, because of the newspaperman's
stripper girlfriend, it has an Ed Wood, Jr., feel with random, poorly connected scenes. An excuse for the lack of plot,
the only motivation driving the film is: who murdered Sloane?
What's weird is how heavily laden the political messages are. Was Samuel Fuller trying to perform a subconscious trick
on me? Well, at any rate, it's a boring picture to sit through because all I can think of is: "How credible will these
witnesses be in the eyes of court?"
The idea of a perfectly sane person becoming insane after spending some time in the lunatic asylum is doubtful. It's no
surprise that, after two stinkers through Schlock Corridor and The Naked Kiss,
Samuel Fuller's career nosedived although he did churn out a respectable war picture entitled
The Big Red One with Lee Marvin.
All in all, Schlock Corridor sucks, and Samuel Fuller is an idiot director.