A terrific idea achieves only middling results, mainly do to the very low budget. A woman waiting at a hotel for her husband to return from a World War II prison camp witnesses a murder, and the next morning, her husband finds her in a state of shock. So the hotel psychiatric (did most hotels have them back then?) is called in to treat her, but he's the killer. And he uses his profession to cover up the crime. So far, so good. Than the audience spends the rest of the film waiting for someone to say or do something interesting. No such luck, and even the ending is dull. Just a lot of cheap sets, grainy photography, and idle chat. However, Vincent Price does give a effectively sinister performance, and the positive response to this role helped put his career on the path for which he is best-known.
Review of Shock
