Underplayed Gems

The Cabinet of Caligari (1962)

The Cabinet of Caligari poster
Directed by
Roger Kay
Genre
horror film
Country
United Kingdom, United States
Runtime
1h 45m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 56 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A woman stranded at a remote estate finds herself trapped with a mysterious doctor and his strange household. She gradually realizes that nothing is as it seems.

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What happens

The Cabinet of Caligari is a 1962 American horror film directed by Roger Kay, starring Glynis Johns, Dan O'Herlihy, and Richard Davalos, and released by 20th Century Fox. Although the film's title is very similar to the German silent horror film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), it shares very few similarities except for the main plot twist. The film's script was written by Robert Bloch, author of the novel Psycho. The cinematographer for The Cabinet of Caligari was John L. Russell, who also worked on Alfred Hitchcock's film Psycho (1960). The film played on a double feature with the Hand of Death (1962). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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