I love this movie so much

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

I really enjoyed this one,, sure it doesn't have a lot of the guts and blood or scare tactics as most of the Vincent Price movies, but I felt like this particular movie didn't really need that,, a woman waiting at a hotel for her husband to come home form WW2 , get's the news that her husband is delayed but will be home soon,, so right before she goes to bed she walks to the window and witnesses something horrific ,, a man choking a woman to death.. from this point on she is rather useless, she goes into shock,, a catatonic state,, a Dr. is called in to help her and low and behold it's the same man at the window who killed the woman,, when the woman finally does wake up she tries to put out to different people that the good Dr. is the killer but no one really seems to pay her much mind,, very good movie a must see.

Anabel Shaw (Janet) gets thrown into some kind of zombie-like state after witnessing a murder. She is transferred to Vincent Price's (Dr Cross) psychiatric institution to 'recover' only recovery for her is the last thing on Price's mind. Both he and nurse Lynn Bari (Elaine) have been conducting an affair and the murder that Shaw witnessed was Price murdering his wife. And Price knows that she saw. Bari isn't too keen on having this witness around either. The film follows their attempts to prevent Shaw from telling the truth. They need to keep her sedated.......or worse....The film starts interestingly enough as we follow a spooky dream sequence and witness the murder through the eyes of Anabel Shaw while she waits for her husband in a hotel room. Unfortunately, we then get a dumb contrast as we are asked to believe that Shaw becomes rendered permanently speechless and wide-eyed as a result. It's laughable. All credibility and sympathy that we may have had for her character is thrown out of the window as she demonstrates an incredibly soppy, weak personality. It's also a bit of an insult to viewers considering the time of war and the atrocities that people would have had to see on a daily basis. Yet this pathetic figure can't handle someone being knocked on the head. Honestly! Just for that, I watched the film urging both Price and Bari to finish her off and hopefully get away with it. Go on Price and Bari, do what you gotta do...!!...It's an OK film that never quite gathers momentum but Vincent Price and Lynn Bari are strong enough to carry the proceedings through to a rather messy and rushed finale.

Made before Vincent Price would become famous as a horror movie actor in the 1950's, "Shock" is a suspense movie, not a thriller and certainly not a horror movie. Price played Dr. Richard Cross, a psychiatrist who has just murdered his wife. Unbeknownst to him, Janet Stewart (Anabel Shaw) witnessed the murder from a neighbouring room but falls into a state of shock because of it - and is sent to Cross's sanitarium for treatment!The question that hovers over the movie is how far Cross is willing to go to cover up his crime. At first, it seems as if simply convincing everyone (including Janet herself) that she's hallucinating and is having delusions will work. Cross managed to dump his wife's body in such a way that everyone thought her death was accidental, and so there seems no threat. As the evidence as to how she died mounts, though, Janet becomes a greater danger to Cross and his lover, Miss Jordan (Lynn Bari.) Finally, it seems as if the only way to save himself will be for Cross to kill Janet. The question is whether he'll go through with it - and whether he'll be stopped.Once that final plot twist arrives, and Janet's life is put very much at stake, this does become fairly suspenseful. Up until that point, though, the suspense was somewhat lacking. It's a well-written movie and Price, Shaw and Bari were quite good in their roles. Price especially did a pretty good job portraying the doctor, tormented between his desire to get away with his crime, but also by the thought of having to kill a patient to do it. If the suspense had been more consistent throughout the movie rather than largely restricted to the last few scenes, this would probably be ranked higher, because overall the story is pretty good. (5/10)

*Spoiler/plot- 1946, Shock, A psychologically distraught woman, while waiting for her WW2 flier prisoner of war husband from the Pacific is committed to a private sanitarium for a nervous break down. The same Doctor commits a violent murder of his wife from an apartments patio when she collapses.*Special Stars- Vincent Price as lead.*Theme- Be careful of your neighbors.*Based on- 40's pulp fiction paperbacks *Trivia/location/goofs- Psychological horror drama *Emotion- A somewhat forgettable film except for the very capable acting Vincent Price. Plot improbabilities and lack of decent film finish make this film very weak.