Want to know what a Tim Burton movie would have looked like had he made a silent movie filmed in 1920 in Germany? Give the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari a whirl. This movie defines creepy and you can see so much of its influence on Burton’s work, in particular all of the scenes from hell in Beetlejuice.
The movie centers around a mental patients telling of a story of Dr. Caligari and his sideshow freak Somnambulist (sleep walker) and the rash of murders that seem to accompany them every where they go. The movie plays on your perceptions of reality and is a visual eye candy feast for its imagery. One repeating scene that I like is the way the people in the government agency that Caligari keeps visiting sit all stooped over in their weird, incredibly uncomfortable stools.
I have a fondness for movies that provide a visual stunning experience and I frequently use them as “background visual noise” when I have a social gathering. This movie would fit the bill just fine.
Enjoy
Bill
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