Our Take

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) - This is the birth of the cinematic nightmare, a world made of jagged angles and painted shadows where sanity goes to die. Dr. Caligari is the original carnival barker of the macabre, and Cesare is the somnambulist ghost haunting our collective unconscious. The sets look like they were designed by a lunatic with a grudge against straight lines. It’s a psychedelic trip through a fractured mind that still feels more avant-garde and daring than anything released in the last decade.