I must say I have some admiration for the commentators who saw just how ludicrous this thing is and still found something intriguing about it. To me it was a stultifying combination of overheated direction (the visual equivalent of Fuller's purple prose), ridiculous plotting, hyperventilating non-actors, and a garishly cartoonish view of the mentally ill (how about those nymphomaniacs! - only Fuller, and maybe Ed Wood, could try to play this scene with a straight face). The only redeeming quality in this mess is just how blithely unaware Fuller is of the "hard boiled reality" of the situation he is portraying. And to what absurd lengths he will go to to try to convince us of the veracity of this "world of madness" (one gets the idea he never felt he was going "too far"). Then again maybe that's what people admire about this picture in the first place. 4/10.
Review of Shock Corridor
