SHOCK CORRIDORS

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.