The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a multi-award winning German, silent, horror film, widely considered to be the quintessential work of German Expressionist cinema. It tells the story of an insane hypnotist who uses a somnambulist to commit murders. The film features a dark and twisted visual style, with sharp-pointed forms, oblique and curving lines, structures and landscapes that lean and twist in unusual angles, and shadows and streaks of light painted directly onto the sets.