Last night my wife and I watched "Shock Corridor". This movie was made in 1963, but was very good and had many excellent scenes. The story follows a reporter who wants to find out who murdered a patient in an insane asylum. He poses as a patient who has a mental illness to gain admittance to the place.
He wants to write the story of the year and win a Pulitzer prize by revealing the answer to this unsolved murder.
He eventually finds out who the guilty person is, but in turn becomes catatonic because of his experiences with the other patients and the treaments he endures, i.e. shock and hydra therapy.
This begs the question: if this place can drive a sane man insane, what hope is there for the other patients to recover? If the treaments and environment are so hideously awful that it makes a man lose his mind, something might just be wrong with the methods they are using.
The movie starred many actors that I fondly recall from "The Twilight Zone" series. I think just about every one of them was in an episode or two of the Rod Serling series.
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