
Mrs. Van Houten has shown signs of losing touch with reality, and her husband discusses possible treatment with Dr. Caligari, who says Mrs. Van Houten has a disease of the libido. The staff want Dr. Caligari removed from their facility due to her controversial experiments with electroshock and hypothalamus injections. As Dr. Caligari continues experimenting with her patients, her daughter and son-in-law attempt to stop her.... (Full plot summary below)
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Mrs. Van Houten has shown signs of losing touch with reality, and her husband discusses possible treatment with Dr. Caligari, who says Mrs. Van Houten has a disease of the libido. The staff want Dr. Caligari removed from their facility due to her controversial experiments with electroshock and hypothalamus injections. As Dr. Caligari continues experimenting with her patients, her daughter and son-in-law attempt to stop her.
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| User ReviewChad ATHE best movie ever!!! It's a B masterpiece!! IF you can find it... |
| User ReviewAksel HAbsolute artistic madness! This brain damaged, perverse fever dream is set in the Caligari Insane Asylum, a nightmare labyrinth of impossible angles and colors, within which the fabled doctor's kinky granddaughter rules with an iron hand, a phallic-looking syringe, and a hot-pink PVC dress. Caligari's associates include, a leering therapist and a clone like nurse team who are loonier than their own patients, and in this place, that's saying a lot. Most of the experiments taking place have to do with the doc's desire to transplant her grandfather's synaptic fluid into her own brain to acquire his genius. She also has a peculiar fascination for prize patients Mrs. Van Houten, a repressed housewife with horrifying sexual fantasies involving doors with giant tongues and oozing sores, razor wielding madmen, and televisions that preform cunnilingus, and Mr. Pratt, a cannibalistic pedophile who loves his electroshock therapy a little too much. The sets are amazing, the dialogue is like some kind of insane schlock poetry, the camera movements are beautiful and the actors are all over the top in the most wonderful way possible. Every word, every movement, every angle was perfectly delivered in this surrealist, campy, over the top, psycho sexual masterpiece. |
| User ReviewPeter WThe scene where she makes out with the flesh wall is classic. |
| User ReviewTio BUnmistakeably an '80s cult item--If you like such odd relics of that era as Pee-Wee's Playhouse, Forbidden Zone, and videos by Devo and the Residents, then (1) you're awesome! and (2) you owe it to yourself to see this, and you owe me $20. |
| User ReviewBrianA pseudo sequel to the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, filmed by a porn director. What's not to love. |
| User ReviewDan BWhile certainly outrageous and often gruesome, Dr. Caligari runs out of steam halfway through and never quite picks back up until the last ten minutes. At its peak the film is hilarious and an excellent example of an unconventional art film. The choreography and rhythm are amusing, and a couple of the performances (while wooden) are pretty entertaining. The sets and "special effects" are top-notch, and Sayadian has no problem immersing the viewer in whatever strange world the film takes place in. If all 80 minutes were the equivalent of the tongue scene, this could be a great film. The only problem is that the second "act" seems to almost take itself seriously, which is the exact opposite direction that a film like this wants to go in. This might be the strangest movie I've ever seen, but I was hoping for a more satisfying one to claim that title. |
| User ReviewOrlok Wone strange yet compelling movie--Mondo Bizzaro!! |
| User ReviewGreg SThe granddaughter of Dr. Caligari performs neurological experiments on her asylum patients in this surreal and sexy low-budget R-rated oddity by a director better know for avant-garde hardcore porn films like CAFE FLESH and NIGHTDREAMS. The sets and costumes are cheap but very inventive, but the amateurish acting and joyless villain hold it back from being much more than an intriguing curio. |
| User ReviewCarlos SThis is the weirdest film I have ever seen, and thats saying something. This makes Eraserhead look like a simple drama about a man, his wife and their sick child. How, there is weird good and weird bad, this is much closer to the bad scale. The acting is appalling, the sets are well designed surreal, but cheap. It has some good ideas and its great that it might introduce people to the original silent film, but this is just trying to be too weird and just come across being silly. |
| User ReviewConnor PDan's review is adequate, no need for me to say much. Its only redeeming quality is its bizarreness. Watching Caligari is more like going to the circus than to the movies. |