In a hotel, a woman witnesses a matrimonial murder that sends her into a state of shock, so she’s sent to a sanitarium, where she’s treated by … the doctor who committed the crime she saw! Dun-dun-DUNNNNN!
That’s the setup of Shock, an acceptable, brief little noir thriller of psychosis, infidelity and insulin overdoses.
Before he hit it big at horror, Vincent Price acts impressively as the crooked doc, while his bedridden charge is played by Anabel Shaw. As long as he keeps her loony, she can’t finger him as the killer. Shock grows a little melodramatic as it reaches its end, but is worth seeing for an overlooked Price performance. —Rod Lott