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DR. CALIGARI
1989
Director
Stephen Sayadian
Starring
Madeleine Reynal
Fox Harris
Laura Albert
Runtime
80 minutes
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The follow up to his midnight-movie porno smash hit CAFÉ FLESH, writer/director Stephen Sayadian reimagines the story of the silent German classic THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI for the post-New Wave avant-garde scene.
This exquisitely crafted, gleefully garish work of homemade pulp horror erotica catches up with Caligari’s mad granddaughter (Madeleine Reynal) as she carries on the family tradition of mad science in the neon ’80s, pursuing outrageous experiments in brain-swapping at the Caligari Insane Asylum (CIA). The film takes the surrealism of Bunuel and Dali and mixes it with a melange of pre-WWII German cabaret and post-WWII America – it’s soaked in kitsch, pop-art, advertising/commercial design, and a healthy dose of post-Zappa/post-punk irreverence. This film draws from the same well as Sayadian’s contemporary Tim Burton, but with fantastical visuals that Burton would never dare to attempt. Featuring cannibals, serial killers, frigid housewives, and a dominatrix doctor, DR. CALIGARI creates a sexy, silly, depraved, outlandish, and completely other worldly universe of movie magic.
“Part goofball sex-trip, part personalized art film, persistently outrageous.” - The Los Angeles Times
This exquisitely crafted, gleefully garish work of homemade pulp horror erotica catches up with Caligari’s mad granddaughter (Madeleine Reynal) as she carries on the family tradition of mad science in the neon ’80s, pursuing outrageous experiments in brain-swapping at the Caligari Insane Asylum (CIA). The film takes the surrealism of Bunuel and Dali and mixes it with a melange of pre-WWII German cabaret and post-WWII America – it’s soaked in kitsch, pop-art, advertising/commercial design, and a healthy dose of post-Zappa/post-punk irreverence. This film draws from the same well as Sayadian’s contemporary Tim Burton, but with fantastical visuals that Burton would never dare to attempt. Featuring cannibals, serial killers, frigid housewives, and a dominatrix doctor, DR. CALIGARI creates a sexy, silly, depraved, outlandish, and completely other worldly universe of movie magic.
“Part goofball sex-trip, part personalized art film, persistently outrageous.” - The Los Angeles Times