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January 2006 (USA)
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What force drives a man insane?
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English-language sound remake of _Cabinet des Dr. Caligari., Das (1920)_ . | add synopsis
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4 wins
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Conrad Veidt wouldn't be pleased.
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Judson Pearce Morgan | ... | Francis Geist | |
| Daamen J. Krall | ... | Dr. Daamen Caligari | |
| Doug Jones | ... | Cesare | |
| Lauren Birkell | ... | Jane Stern | |
| Neil Hopkins | ... | Alan | |
| William Gregory Lee | ... | Joseph Stern | |
| Randy Mulkey | ... | Inspector | |
| Time Winters | ... | Dr. Gabriel Stern | |
| Richard Herd | ... | Commissioner Hans Raab | |
| Scott Lincoln | ... | Criminal | |
| Tim Russ | ... | Town Clerk | |
| John Bigham | ... | Asylum Doctor | |
| Alan Altshuld | ... | Clerk's Assistant | |
| Ernest Misko | ... | Old Man | |
| Darren Joel | ... | Policeman #1 |
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Shot entirely on green screen. Some exact shots from the original Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari. (1920) were superimposed to properly replicate the original.
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Remake of Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari. (1920)
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First and foremost i love the original to bits, it was the first silent film i ever watched so you can imagine a feature length movie without dialogue was pretty strange to watch for me then.
So what does a version with talking bring? Not really much at all. I was pretty pumped for this, the trailer didn't look all too bad and at first I was excited to hear that they were using the background from the original 35mm print.
The backgrounds are composited pretty badly in a lot of scenes, especially my favorite shot of Cesare creeping along the wall, which Is a disaster and he doesn't look like he's touching the wall at all! (They should have built this set!) Doug Jones is a pretty good actor, but he doesn't even touch Veidts performance. He's just simply not scary, the terrifying shot where Cesare opens his eyes for the first time in the original film was severed here.
The dialogue is really bad in a lot of places, sure its interesting to see it with dialogue if only for a minute, but comon! Overall id say average, it has a lot of faults but it also is pretty OK in some spots, the new shots are pretty cool. David Lee Fischer obviously didn't love this film enough to leave it THE HELL ALONE!