The Frame

This is the best-known film by Samuel Fuller, whose The Naked Kiss so pleasantly surprised me a few months ago, so I had high hopes for Shock Corridor. And I didn’t like it as much. A detective pretends to be insane to get committed to an asylum in order to find out who killed one of the inmates. While he’s in there he pretty much goes insane himself. Its more overwrought than Naked Kiss, and what I found so compelling about the latter is the unexpected weirdness of it–whereas Shock Corridor sort of had built-in weirdness from the insane asylum setting.
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