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A case can be made that Caligari was the first true horror film.
This is more than just a textbook classic; the narrative frame creates ambiguities that hold certain elements of the story in disturbing suspension. A one-of-a-kind masterpiece.
Robert Wiene has made perfect use of settings designed by Hermann Warm, Walter Reimann and Walter Roehrig, settings that squeeze and turn and adjust the eye and through the eye the mentality.
With its unusual look and neatly folding method of storytelling "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" is an artistically uninhibited silent horror film that still sends chills.
Pre-dating even early genre landmarks Nosferatu (1922) and Metropolis (1926) by some distance, Robert Wiene's silent film is both influential and one of a kind.
Even if taken as social or Freudian statement, Caligari's real star attraction is in the visuals.
still creepy good entertainment on a rainy day
A classic. Visually stunning and more experimental than anything coming out today.
The influence of Robert Wiene's Caligari is so great that it threatens to obscure the work itself.
A seminal horror movie, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari was hailed upon its initial release as the first film to elevate the cinema from the realm of popular entertainment to that of high art.
One of those rare, amazing technical accomplishments that also succeeds as art.
Undoubtedly one of the most exciting and inspired horror movies ever made.
Wiene's expressionistic masterpiece is required viewing for lovers of the gothic and the weird.
A landmark of Expressionist cinema and contains many dazzling set pieces.
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