Dr. Caligari (1989)

Directed by

Stephen Sayadian

Genre

comedy horror, science fiction film, parody film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 20m

Rated

R

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 65 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The granddaughter of the original Dr. Caligari runs a mental institution where she performs illegal mind-swapping experiments on patients. Her attempts to cure them only transfer conditions like cannibalism and nymphomania between people.

surrealcampyeroticunsettlingdarkly comicvisually stylizedbizarreabsurd

What happens

Dr. Caligari is a 1989 American avant-garde horror erotic film co-written and directed by Stephen Sayadian and starring Madeleine Reynal, Laura Albert, Gene Zerna, David Parry, Fox Harris and Jennifer Balgobin. It is a quasi-sequel to the 1920 film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. The film details a disturbed doctor (the granddaughter of the original Dr. Caligari) and her illegal experiments on her patients. Originally and briefly billed as Dr. Caligari 3000 when it debuted at select theaters in 1989, the film promptly faded into obscurity. Since it was released on VHS and limited Betamax format, the title has been Dr. Caligari. The film is considered a cult classic and has been shown as a "midnight movie" at various times. In the film, Dr. Caligari conducts mindswapping experiments on unwilling mental patients, in an attempt to cure them. She succeeds only in transferring certain mental conditions and character traits from one person to others. The main themes explored in these experiments are human cannibalism, nymphomania, and transvestism. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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