- published: 09 Aug 2013
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Shock is a 1946 film noir directed by Alfred L. Werker.
The film tells the story of a psychiatrist, Dr. Cross (Vincent Price), who is treating a young woman, Janet Stewart (Anabel Shaw), who is in a coma-state, brought on when she heard loud arguing, went to her window and saw a man strike his wife with a candlestick and kill her. It also stars Lynn Bari as Dr. Cross's nurse/lover, Elaine Jordan.
As Stewart comes out of her shock, she recognizes Dr. Cross as the killer. He then takes her to his sanitarium and at Elaine's urging, gives Janet an overdose of insulin under the pretense of administering insulin shock therapy. He can't bring himself to murder her in cold blood, though, and asks Elaine to get the medicine to save her. Elaine refuses, they argue, and he strangles her. A colleague of Dr. Cross, Dr. Harvey, saves Janet's life and Dr. Cross is taken into custody by a lawyer from the District Attorney's office.
Above and beyond the typical characteristics of the horror film genre, reviewer Bosley Crowther of The New York Times took particular offense to the film's treatment of Price as a psychiatrist who attempts to do away with his patient, a woman who has lost her mind after witnessing the murder her own doctor had committed. Coming in the wake of World War II, in which so may people had suffered shock and could benefit from treatment of their anxieties, Crowther asked the "critical observer to protest in no uncertain tones" the movie's "social disservice" in its fostering "apprehension against the treatment of nervous disorders", deploring the lack of consideration for those in need of treatment evidenced by producer Aubrey Schenck and distributor Twentieth-Century Fox.
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Plot: In Taeter City everything is managed by the iron fist of dictatorship members: THE AUTORITY. They use a special radio wave system called Zeed that lets them distinguish criminals from typical law abiding citizens. These special radio waves alter the demented brain of criminals, forcing them to commit suicide in horrible ways. A special police corps called The Biker's retrieves their corpses and delivers them to massive slaughterhouses. These supply the mega fast food chains with the human flesh products they need to feed the masses, non-stop. Here there are no criminals, no crimes, no riots, no crisis... until now. The Zeed system is no longer functioning the way it is supposed to: the criminals are no longer killing themselves; the radio waves are making them stronger! Follow the crazy mission of three Biker officers (Razor, Shock and Wank) charged with managing this chaotic situation. We give you: an 80's movie vibe, insane technology, manga style, crazy action, adrenaline, violence, blood, blood and again blood. A new Splatter Sci-Fi genre has risen!
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Keywords: 1990s, black-comedy, cartoon-dog, christmas, christmas-in-danger, christmas-tree, corpse, cult-film, cult-film, disney-animated-featureI hear brand new talk everywhere I go
They got a new word for what we do
When the lights get low
And I, I hear my heart beat black and blue
Don't call it love, it don't keep time
For me and you
I feel shock when the lights get low
I got a heart like crime
Yeah down in my soul
When the lights get low
And the music's loud
And the latest song is hot and cold
'Til the stars go down
And my blood runs cold
And my hands just shake
Got a heart like crime and a pretty face
Ain't all it takes
And I don't call it love
Waiting for the world to stop
And I don't call it love
Waiting for the world
I feel shock when the lights get low
I got a heart like crime
Yeah, down in my soul
I feel shock when the lights get low
I got a heart like crime
Yeah, down in my soul
I feel shock, shock
I don't call it love
Waiting for the world to stop
And I don't call it love
Waiting for the world
I feel shock when the lights get low
I got a heart like crime
Yeah, down in my soul
I feel shock when the lights get low
I got a heart like crime
When the world gets cold
I feel shock when the lights get low
I got a heart like crime
Down in my soul
I feel shock
I got a heart like crime
When the world gets cold
I feel shock when the lights get low
I got a heart like crime
Yeah, down in my soul
I feel shock when the lights get low
I got a heart like crime
When the world gets cold
I feel shock when the lights get low
I got a heart like crime
Down in my soul