Cabinet of Caligari

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Stephen W I was surprised as to how good this is, a lovely intrigueing strange mystery! Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/10/24 Full Review nick s The production quality of the film was fine, but it was too drawn out... especially if you guess the plot early. I was bored. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/16/24 Full Review Steve D Some interesting twists but it never quite works as a whole. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 07/18/23 Full Review Audience Member Blobbo not understand low rating. Movie pretty good representation of paranoid schizophrenia from patient point view. OOPS - BLOBBO REVIEW GIVE AWAY SURPRISE ENDING! Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Audience Member The differences between this movie and its silent film inspiration are significant. Here Caligari is a controlling Freudian madman, keeping Jane against her will and taunting her with scarcely glimpsed perversities. Kay and Bloch do away with the somnambulist Cesar and the carnival setting, focusing instead on the implications of the earlier film's ending. But while the majority of the action seems much more "real world"than in Weine's film, the climax in which Jane descends fully into madness is a real stunner. One particular sequence in which Jane sees a baker pulling loaves of bread shaped like infants out of a blazing oven even seems to prefigure David Lynch's Eraserhead in both theme and imagery--in fact, I would not be surprised to learn this film was a direct influence on that one. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member A strange tale that is a long wind up to a final twist ending of the Twilight Zone sort. Impressive acting by an ensemble cast but with a script filled with quite pretentious and stilted dialog. Horror is something of an overstatement in describing this movie. If you are expecting a remake of the 1920 silent classic, this is definitely not it. What it really is the viewer only learns at the end, at which point a lot of pretentious dialog makes more sense than it seemed to when you initially heard it. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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