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List Price: $7.98 | | Label: Alpha Video
Salesrank: 151499
Released: September 24, 2002 |
| Our Price: $1.97 |
| Used Price: $1.24 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
This is a classic Vincent Price thriller!
Shock! Reviews:
Pricey Affair... 
2004-03-18 - Janet Stewart (Anabel Shaw) is in a hotel room awaiting the return of her long lost husband (an army officer). He was reported killed in action two years earlier, only to be found alive! As Janet waits, she steps out on the balcony and sees a man (Vincent Price) arguing with his (unseen) wife. They are discussing an affair the man's been having and impending divorce. Suddenly, the man picks up a candlestick and whacks the wife in the head with it! Janet, already under enough stress, goes into shock. Her husband finally arrives, finding Janet on the couch, staring blankly ahead. Hubby calls the hotel doctor who calls in a psychiatrist who happens to be at the hotel. Enter Dr. Cross (yep, Vinny Price himself), the very same guy Janet had just witnessed splitting his wife's melon! Cross soon figures out what happened and convinces Janet's nice but stupid husband that she needs to be taken to Cross' private sanitarium. Once there, we find out that Cross' nurse Elaine (Lynn Bari) is the one he's been fooling around with and she's glad about Mrs. Cross' sudden departure. Of course, she also wants Janet out of the way. Cross wishes he'd turned himself in to police, but Elaine sees things differently. You see, Dr. Cross has a conscience. Elaine does not. She's a "lady macbeth" type, bent on doing whatever it takes to get what she wants. She uses Cross' own weaknesses to get the job done. Cross disposes of his wife's body, making it look like she fell off a cliff. Meanwhile, Janet is kept sedated and confined. Will her husband ever grow a brain and help her? Will police find out that Mrs. Cross' death was anything but accidental? What other evil plans does Elaine hope to accomplish through the whimpy Dr. Cross? Will Cross listen to his heart, or will he commit yet another murder? Watch and find out! SHOCK! is a great movie for noir lovers and Vincent fans...
Vincent Price hoot 
2004-01-22 - I am an unabashed fan of ALL Vincent Price films, as I enjoy tremendously the actor's campy romp through melodrama. "Shock", from 1946, displays Price in his glory as a killer psychiatrist in love with a ruthless nurse who eggs him on in his plot to silence a woman who was a witness to his crime.
The woman's soldier husband, freshly home from WWII and familiar with the syndrome of soldiers suffering from "shock", accepts Price's self-serving diagnosis of his wife. As the plot grinds on, providing at least a laugh a minute, he slowly begins to believe his wife rather than her doctor. Truth prevails in the end of this satisfying film, which provides the viewer with "escape from reality" on several levels. Recommended!
fantastic story plot 4 stars terrible dvd transfer 0 stars
2004-01-15 - Loved the story!Excellent mystery and suspense thriller.An excellent plot about a woman witnessing a murder and has a break down and is commited to an asylum. I do not want to say no more it will spoil the surprise!!! The picture was dark and grainy and sound quality poor. I could not enjoy the picture. Lousy dvd transfer!! I agree with laurent burel's posting. Do not buy this dvd until a better transfer comes along!!!rent it!I give it 4 stars because I loved Vincent Price and good story plot 0 stars for quality of dvd!
a very bad dvd transfer 
2003-10-18 - This could have been a great B movie but it was let down by a very poor quality (sound and image) and i am rather upset about it so sometimes price can tell what you might expect from the product.MY ADVICE DON'T BUY IT UNTIL A GREAT COPY IS AVAILABLE.
Shock, shock! This movie is good!
2003-08-08 - The title shouts sensationalism, but the film is a straight-forward, succinctly paced noir with a minimum of the melodrama and pseudo-medical nonsense that often marks such movies. Vincent Price's performance is understated, yet powerful, and his character's interaction with mistress Lynn Bari is chillingly intriguing. The discovery of this drama is like coming across a gleaming onyx in a chest of gaudy paste jewelry!
