The director of an insane asylum travels to a small German
town with his muted, semi-catatonic assistant where he performs sideshows and
uses the sleepwalker to commit a series of grisly murders. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a cornerstone of silent cinema and
German Expressionism which remains widely influential to this day. Robert Weine’s
film, which was co-written by Carl Mayer and Hans Janowitz, is suspenseful,
wildly imaginative, and bizarre which extends to the atypical titles, mind
bending sets, and overstated actors.
**** out of *****
