Dr. Caligari
1989 Directed by Stephen Sayadian
Synopsis
the MAD doctor is in.
Mrs. Van Houten has shown signs of losing touch with reality, and her husband discusses possible treatment with Dr. Caligari, who says Mrs. Van Houten has a disease of the libido.
80 mins More details at TMDb
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I had the privilege of watching this 80s cult rarity last night. I even got to watch it on the now outrageously priced VHS thanks to my friend Scott and his ridiculous collection of movies.
Dr. Caligari is such a visual treat. It is done is a very expressionistic style that shows obvious love for the original Caligari film, and other German expressionist pictures of the early 1920s. It would be one thing to just copy that style and do nothing else with it, but this movie builds on its expressive nature with lots of bright colors, sets that constitute nightmare fuel, and lots of interesting and simple styles of editing. On the surface this movie may not seem like…
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I had the privilege of watching this 80s cult rarity last night. I even got to watch it on the now outrageously priced VHS thanks to my friend Scott and his ridiculous collection of movies.
Dr. Caligari is such a visual treat. It is done is a very expressionistic style that shows obvious love for the original Caligari film, and other German expressionist pictures of the early 1920s. It would be one thing to just copy that style and do nothing else with it, but this movie builds on its expressive nature with lots of bright colors, sets that constitute nightmare fuel, and lots of interesting and simple styles of editing. On the surface this movie may not seem like…
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Extremely unique and bizarre, I couldn't take my eyes off of it.
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Sayadian and writer Jerry Stahl reconstruct the images and ideas from their X-rated classics Cafe Flesh and Nightdreams into a bizarre, vaguely sexual (though never erotic) nightmare. This is a film that will split audiences - it's too off-kilter to ever appeal to a mainstream crowd, and even cult movie fans might find it a bit much. But it's visually arresting, curiously compulsive and certainly evidence of an extraordinary imagination that unfortunately seems to have vanished without trace.