The Dryden will screen Shock Corridor (Samuel Fuller, U.S. 1963, 88 min., 35mm) as part of the After Bedlam series.

Johnny Barrett, a reporter obsessed with winning a Pulitzer Prize, goes undercover in a mental hospital in order to solve a murder, only to cross the line between sanity and madness. This is a film of literal and psychological interiors, a striking presentation of Fuller's storytelling. His combination of a bold use of footage shot for other films and a variety of rule-breaking visual effects (intense close-ups, shock cutting, inexplicable camera movements) made Shock Corridor one of the most audacious B-movies of the 1960s.

[source: George Eastman Museum, 2018-Apr-9]