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'''Cesare''': ''Your time is short. You die at dawn.'' }}
Silent [[German Expressionism|expressionism]] horror film made in 1920 Germany, starring Werner Krauss as the titular mad doctor and Conrad Veidt (the bad guy from ''[[Casablanca]]...'' oh, and [[The Man Who Laughs|the original]] [[The Joker|Joker]]) as the fortune-telling sleepwalker Cesare, who lives inside the cabinet.
The film was made to metaphorically express the dangers of hospitals in World War I when "malingering" soldiers were confined in hospitals under their manipulative doctors. It was also based in the film scriptwriters Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer's experiences during the war.
This film is best-known for its extremely messed-up set design: all the angles are crooked, the shadows are ''painted onto the sets'', and it's all made out of paper. More notably, some sets are twisted versions of World War I battlefields.
This movie is frequently homaged by music videos (see [[Rob Zombie]]'s "Living Dead Girl" as well as "Otherside" of the [[Red Hot Chili Peppers]]). In 2005, it received an indie remake starring Doug Jones, of ''[[Pan's
In addition to being the first psychological thriller and one of the first actual horror films ever made, this movie also received one of the first-ever [[Viral Marketing]] campaigns for a movie: before its premiere, German streets were plastered with posters that read "Du mußt Caligari werden!" ("You must become Caligari!"), without telling you anything about the fact that they tied in to a movie.
''[[The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari]]'' was tremendously influential in cinematic history, as all the [[Trope Maker]] examples below attest. It is in the public domain and may be viewed in its entirety at [
▲''The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'' was tremendously influential in cinematic history, as all the [[Trope Maker]] examples below attest. It is in the public domain and may be viewed in its entirety at [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrg73BUxJLI&feature=fvw YouTube].
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* [[Bedlam House]]
* [[Bizarrchitecture]]: Good ''lord''. It borders on [[Alien Geometries]].
* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: Cesare
* [[Circus of Fear]]: probably the [[Trope Maker]]
* [[Cuckoo Nest]]
* [[Deranged Animation]]: despite being live-action, it's more stylized than your average cartoon
* [[
* [[Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette]]: Cesare and Francis
* [[Empathic Environment]]
* [[Excessive Evil Eyeshadow]]: Cesare wears black makeup underneath his eyes.
* [[Framing Device]]: Francis and the old man sitting in the courtyard.
* [[German Expressionism]]: [[Trope
* [[Homage]]: it's received countless, which eventually caused the [[Weird Al Effect]]
* [[I Just Knew]]: in the remake (subverted: {{spoiler|he only knows because he's imagining the whole thing}})
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* [[Madness Montage]]: Surely the Trope Maker.
* [[Mad Scientist]]: Caligari.
* [[Mind Control Eyes]]: The mind controlled Cesare reveals [https://web.archive.org/web/20111111115746/http://pipocaenanquim.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Cesare.jpg a particularly demented stare] when Dr. Caligari first wakes him up.
* [[Mind Screw]]: The ''sets'' are [[Mind Screw]] incarnate. In fact, if you compare actual World War I photos to some scenes, you'll find that some of the movie scenes are twisted version of WWI battlefields
* [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate]]: Dr. Caligari.
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: If you meet a guy who is named after one of the Borgias, don't mess with him.
* [[No Ending]]: "Now I can cure him." The End.
* [[No Name Given]]: {{spoiler|Apparently Dr. Caligari renamed himself and Cesare after the legendary 17th century doctor and somnambulist he wished to emulate. We never learn what Dr. Caligari and Cesare's original names were.}}
* [[No Sneak Attacks]]: Averted, as Cesare's victims are killed in their sleep. His, too
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* [[They Plotted a Perfectly Good Waste]]: The sets don't look real at all. This is because they're not.
* [[Things That Go Bump in the Night]]: Cesare
* [[Touch of the Monster]]: The [[
* [[Twist Ending]]: It's [[All Just a Dream]] and [[Tomato in the Mirror|Francis is crazy.]] Also, supposedly the [[Trope Maker]] for the film medium.
* [[Unreliable Narrator]]
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