SHOCK CORRIDORS
By: Sudarshan R.
Movies about inmates in mental asylums come in all shapes and sizes there is already a giant leap from D. W. Griffith’s THE HOUSE OF DARKNESS to Robert Wiene’s THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI in the 1910-1920 decade. Films after that, be it in the non-fiction or fiction format have given powerfully cinematic treatments of people who are both vulnerable and dangerous, of internal instability residing in an institute of rationalized authority.
By the way, the below list is not in any particular order despite numerical order.
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01Frederick Wiseman
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02Vincente Minnelli
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03Robert Rossen
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04Samuel Fuller
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05Martin Scorsese
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06Robert Wiene
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07D.W. Griffith
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08John Huston
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09John Huston
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10Robert Aldrich