99 Days to Halloween
Over the next 100 days, I will present one movie of significances in horror, suspense or thrillers for each year from 1919 to 2018. The second film presented here is the 1920 German expressionist film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari directed by Robert Wiene and written by Carl Mayer.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari-(1920) Germany
Dir- Robert Wiene
Long considered to be the first true horror movie, Dr. Caligari is the archetype mad scientist out to do evil deeds with the aid of a sleepwalker named Cesare. Cesare murders those whom the Doctor feels are too close to his evil deeds. The setting is both nightmarish and expressionistic in its use of exaggerated sets and weird angles. The shock ending is only the icing in a movie that invents a whole genre of horror devices- the mad scientist, the zombie, the helpless heroine carried onto the roofs.
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