New on DVD:
Shock Corridor
There are some problems so titanic in scope, so devilish in their base immorality, that to approach them with anything resembling subtlety can almost seem an insult. That’s the sensibility at work in Samuel Fuller’s 1963 electroshocker of a jeremiad, Shock Corridor, which aims to jangle as many nerves as possible in the shortest time available – subtlety be damned. After all, the problem was America…
Shock Corridor is out now in a sterling new Criterion edition packed with extras. You can read the full review at PopMatters.
