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Shock Corridor
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1963 drama directed by Samuel Fuller.Johnny Barrett (Peter Breck), an ambitious journalist, is determined to win a Pulitzer Prize by solving a murder committed in a lunatic asylum and witnessed only by three inmates, from whom the police have been unable to extract the information. With the connivance of a psychiatrist, and the reluctant help of his girlfriend Cathy (Constance Towers), he succeeds in having himself declared insane and sent to the asylum. There he slowly tracks down and interviews the witnesses - but things are stranger than they seem ... | |
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Punishment Box | |
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Punishment Box: Johnny is threatened by the warden with having this treatment. | |
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Brainwashed and Crazy | |
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Brainwashed and Crazy: A self-inflicted example, as Johnny's prolonged exposure to the asylum's atmosphere caused him to brainwashed himself into thinking he's really insane and believing in his own Brother–Sister Incest cover story. | |
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Internalized Categorism | |
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Internalized Categorism: Trent has experienced so much bigotry that he starts mouthing slurs and even sports a Ku Klux Klan outfit despite being African-American. | |
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Catapult Nightmare | |
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Catapult Nightmare: Trent is performing one of these. | |
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Create Your Own Villain | |
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Create Your Own Villain: All the inmates in the asylum are driven mad as a result of some failing in American society, whether it's the Red Scare and Confederate Lost Cause, rampant bigotry, nuclear weapons or tabloid journalism and obsession with fame. | |
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Hollywood Law | |
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Hollywood Law: The movie acts like the murderer has been nailed when Johnny beats him into a confession. In reality, that would be inadmissible in court. The only witness is also a delusional mental patient who thinks he's a little boy most of the time. So it's likely the murderer would go free. | |
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Electroconvulsive Therapy Is Torture | |
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Electroconvulsive Therapy Is Torture: The electroshock treatment Johnny is given only makes him worse. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending / Downer Ending: Johnny solves the mystery, the murderer is caught, and Johnny gets his Pulitzer. But his obsession leads to him mentally snapping—he is now catatonic, and a patient at the asylum. And there seems to be no hope for Cathy reconciling with him. | |
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Becoming the Mask | |
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Becoming the Mask: Johnny eventually goes from feigning insanity as a cover story to becoming insane for real by the end of the film. | |
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Genius Ditz | |
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Genius Ditz: Dr. Boden, a brilliant nuclear scientist, has regressed to the mental level of a six-year old, spending his time drawing crude childish pictures and playing hide-and-go-seek. | |
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Central Theme | |
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Central Theme: America is a madhouse! | |
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Sanity Slippage | |
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Sanity Slippage: Johnny's losing it towards the end, becoming a legit inmate of the asylum, thereby Becoming the Mask as it was originally his cover. | |
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Cannot Spit It Out | |
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Cannot Spit It Out: Johnny's speaking impairment in critical situations as a result of the electroshock therapy. | |
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Where da White Women At? | |
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Where da White Women At?: Trent mentions this twice in his hate speeches. | |
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Punctuated Pounding | |
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Punctuated Pounding: Who! Killed! Sloan! (Johnny pounding Wilkes' head on the floor) | |
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Room Full of Crazy | |
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Room Full of Crazy: A mild version with the drawings in the nympho ward. | |
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Mistaken for Incest | |
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Mistaken for Incest: This is a big plot point, where the protagonist is an ambitious journalist that pretends to have an incestuous fixation on his own sister (she is actually his girlfriend) in order to be committed to an asylum where he is pursuing a story. Completely Played for Drama. | |
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Orderlies are Creeps | |
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Orderlies are Creeps: Wilkes anyway. | |
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Brother–Sister Incest | |
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Brother–Sister Incest: Johnny fakes desiring and attempting it with his pretend sister to get committed. | |
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You Have to Believe Me! | |
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You Have to Believe Me!: Johnny, trying to convince the shrink of his sanity. | |
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Shell-Shocked Veteran | |
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Shell-Shocked Veteran: Stuart, a Korean War vet traumatized by his brainwashing by the Dirty Communists and disgraced by the American public as a traitor. | |
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Boomerang Bigot | |
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Boomerang Bigot: Trent, as a self-proclaimed black Klansman. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: In the opening scene, Cathy is giving one of these to Johnny concerning his obsession. | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: By faking to be insane and vulnerably exposing himself to the mental hospital's environment, Johnny had unintentionally brainwashed himself into believing in his own Brother–Sister Incest cover story and he's actually insane. | |
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Napoleon Delusion | |
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Napoleon Delusion: Stuart believes that he's American Civil War general J. E. B. Stuart. | |
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Flipping the Table | |
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Flipping the Table: This happens during the dispute at the canteen. | |
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Fat Best Friend | |
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Fat Best Friend: The gigantic opera singer instantly befriends Johnny. | |
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Believing Their Own Lies | |
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Believing Their Own Lies: Johnny gradually believed his Brother–Sister Incest cover story was factual and he's really a mental patient. | |
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Talkative Loon | |
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Talkative Loon: Trent in particular. | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For: Johnny wanted to solve the mystery of the murder at the asylum and get to the bottom of the case. To do so he enters as a mental patient and finally goes insane for good. | |
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Selective Obliviousness | |
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Selective Obliviousness: Pagliacci views everything as an opera, often imitating the movements of an orchestral conductor around the other inmates. When Johnny screams during a panic attack, Pagliacci mistakes it for a sour note. | |
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Splash of Color | |
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Splash of Color: While the movie is produced in black and white, the nightmares/visions of the characters are depicted in color. This is actually footage Fuller shot for a planned adventure film in Brazil's Karaja community, that ultimately got cancelled. | |
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Inner Monologue | |
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Inner Monologue: Johnny's thoughts are the main narrative. | |
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Bedlam House | |
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Bedlam House: The asylum has this dysfunctional feel to it. | |
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Iris Out | |
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Iris Out: The movie starts with an Iris-In effect on the long asylum corridor. | |
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Refuge in Audacity | |
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Refuge in Audacity: The whole movie, with its over-the-top satire, is filled with this. The Trent episode is especially bold. | |
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Driven to Madness | |
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Driven to Madness: The whole point of it. It's about a journalist has himself declared insane in order to investigate the murder in the mental hospital. But he slowly losing his mind. | |
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Go Among Mad People | |
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Go Among Mad People: Johnny. | |
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Insane Equals Violent | |
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Insane Equals Violent: Averted in the case of Boden and Stuart and some of the other inmates who are harmless, but it's certainly true of Trent, the nymphomaniacs and Johnny. | |
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Society Is to Blame | |
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Society Is to Blame: All the inmates in the asylum are driven mad by certain ugly facets of American society. | |
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Love Makes You Crazy | |
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Love Makes You Crazy: Cathy's crazy love for Johnny. | |
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