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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari review
Daniel Corleone - wrote on 01/13/12
Dr. Caligari (Werner Krauss) and his faithful sleepwalking Cesare (Conrad Veidt) have committed murders. Francis (Friedrich Fehér), and his friend Alan (Hans Heinrich von Twardowski) visits a carnival where they witness Caligari. Caligari kidnaps Jane (Lil Dagover). The score was wonderful and make-up ahead of its time. It was the this film that influenced Edward Scissorhands (in which Caligari was used for Edward's physical appearance), Shutter Island and The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari could have been, if not the first, to introduce the horror genre with a nice twist in the end if only the method of its story telling would have been better.
