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1 December 1989 (USA)
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the MAD doctor is in.
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Mrs. Van Houten has shown signs of losing touch with reality, and her husband discusses possible treatment with Dr...
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Laboratory
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Drugs
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Mondo Bizzaro!
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Madeleine Reynal | ... | Dr. Caligari |
| Fox Harris | ... | Dr. Avol |
 | Laura Albert | ... | Mrs. Van Houten |
| Jennifer Balgobin | ... | Ramona Lodger |
| John Durbin | ... | Gus Pratt |
| Gene Zerna | ... | Les Van Houten |
 | David Parry | ... | Dr. Lodger |
| Barry Phillips | ... | Cesare |
| Magie Song | ... | Patient in Straitjacket |
 | Jennifer Miro | ... | Miss Koonce |
 | Stephen Quadros | ... | Scarecrow |
| Carol Albright | ... | Screaming Patient |
| Catherine Case | ... | Patient with Extra Hormones |
 | Debra Deliso | ... | Grace Butler |
| Lori Chacko | ... | Patient in Bed |
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Final film of Fox Harris.
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Mrs. Van Houten:
[after burning her hand] Help me, Doctor Caligari, help me!
Dr. Caligari: That smell of burnt flesh - always reminds me of something.
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Dr. Caligari: That smell of burnt flesh - always reminds me of something.
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Referenced in Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1996)
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This is simply one of the strangest films ever made. Directed by Stephen Sayadian, the man that gave you the Sci-Fi Porn Thriller, "Cafe Flesh", "Dr. Caligari" is one of the 80's cult films that is *so* strange, *so* bizarre, that it defies ordinary description. More Mondo than "Forbidden Zone", more inexplicable than "Eraserhead", more indescribable than "Invocation of my Demon Brother", it's a psychotic psychodrama romp semi-sequel to "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari"; it seems Dr. Caligari's grand-daughter has opened her own asylum for the sexually maladjusted, and is experimenting on her patients. Words cannot do this film justice. It's a shame it's out of print. It's totally brilliant!!!