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Every Horror Film You've Ever Loved Comes From This One. | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
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Germany. A man accuses a sinister doctor of using a sleepwalker to commit murders. Except he might be the one who's unstable. Except nothing in this frame is straight, nothing is level, and everything you're seeing might be a manifestation of a damaged mind.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari invented the unreliable narrator. It invented expressionist set design as psychological interiority. It made an authoritarian villain out of post-WWI German anxiety in 1920 — before that was even a genre. Film noir. Psychological horror. The twist ending. All of it lives here first.
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