Word: incest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shock Corridor can be chalked up as Fuller's best film to date. In it, a reporter feigns incest to gin admittance to a state mental institution so that he can track down the killer or a patient. Inside the asylum, Fuller subjects the reporter to a 90-minute horror show of shock treatments, nymphomaniac outbursts, sexual degeneracy, catatonia, schizoid fantasy, and psychotic gluttony. Shock Corridor is the Marat/Sade of film, a moody, almost choreographed, nightmare...
...offense? Should a woman whose husband is not sterile be permitted to use A.I.D. because she desires a child of what she hopes is "better stock" than her husband's? Since one donor is capable of fathering 30 children per donation, how can the law prevent incest between siblings sired by the same donor? (A doctor's privileged knowledge once headed off just such a marriage.) If records are kept, how public can they be without hurting the children...
...father, a scientist who died at Auschwitz. He was denounced to the Nazis, Claudia believes, by her mother (Marie Bell), who has since remarried and gone mad. Claudia's brother, played with a nice sense of wasting vitality by Jean Sorel, is less interested in vengeance than in incest, about which he has written an autobiographical novel. Since the family closets are already bursting with scandalous secrets, Claudia begs him to destroy the book. The pair's unseemly sibling passion ultimately leads to disgrace, violence and suicide...
...bloodstained among latter-day criminal cases. Whichever way the murder trial goes, it is all mixed up with big money and wheeler-dealerism." Added the Houston Chronicle's man in Miami: "Woven through the fabric of the case are the threads of love, hate, greed, savage passion, intrigue, incest and perversion...
...with the photographer's cameras and cases," wrote the New York Daily News's Theo Wilson after a chat in Candy's apartment. "It is the end of the first week of Candy's trial and she has been hearing the words adultery, fornication and incest used openly in court nearly every day." What she might have been reading was just as bad. Wrote Jim Bishop: "Some claim to have seen photos of Candace embracing her Negro chauffeur . . . Other photos show the swinging grandma almost nude...