Shock Review

Review of Shock (1946) by screenqueeen: 👍 3/5

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An interesting concept that no doubt caught the eye of Hitchcock in some capacity. The progression of events feel more frustrating as they happen rather than provide you with a sense of being "in" on something, which might be due to the primordial nature of a conspiratorial thriller set in a sanitarium in the 1940s (I feel there were a lot of cases of torture-as-treatment back in those days that couldn't be objectively examined in the same time period).

Period crap aside, Price's performance is superb as he navigates pure evil wearing a mask of the good doctor while still effectively communicating that he is beginning to break. This also includes a dream sequence in the very beginning that really surprised me with its in-camera effects and surrealist approach. Well done there.