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Queen of the Damned (2002)
Directed by Michael Rymer
influenced by The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Visuals
Though The Queen of the Damned opens with an homage to Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, its visual style is more closely akin to Tarsem Singh's The Cell (though neither as trippy nor daring).
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022)
Directed by Tom Gormican
influenced by The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
At the very least, it’s an inspiration for one helluva triple feature idea in Face/Off (1997), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), and Paddington 2 (2017).
He keeps trying to force his interests, namely 1920 silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, on her, with little regard for who his daughter might actually be.
That persona causes problems for Cage’s family, who are sick and tired of him prioritizing his job over them, and imposing his love of movies like Fritz Lang’s classic 1920 German expressionist film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari on them.
Everything is here from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), to the black brambles of Disney’s Sleeping Beauty (1959), to references to the Friday the 13th and Halloween series — and, of course, the requisite zombie tropes.
It is interesting to note however how much the sets for the final set piece is inspired by The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, a movie made way back in 1920!
Bava’s film was one six that inspired Suspiria , the rest being Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), David Hand’s aforementioned Disney-produced Snow White And The Seven Dwarves (1937), Jacques Tourneur’s Cat People (1942), Neorealism founders Vittorio De Sica and Luchino Visconti, along Mauro Bolognini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Franco Rossi’s Le streghe ( The Witches, 1967), and Brian De Palma’s Phantom Of Paradise (1974), which Harper also starred in.
The Skin I Live In (2011)
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
influenced by The Hands of Orlac (1924)
Visuals
Cinephiles will recognize dreamy allusions, most obviously to Georges Franju's Eyes Without a Face, but there are also deep-red hints of early Dario Argento films, Robert Wiene's The Hands of Orlac and its remake, Karl Freund's Mad Love, and the films of David Cronenberg, among others.
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
influenced by The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Visuals
It seems impossible that Coppola could keep this up for the duration of the picture, could see to fruition the kind of viable update/continuation of Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari that the Akira Kurosawa film he helped produce, Kagemusha, with its sanguineous, medieval battlegrounds painted with heavy brushes, aspired to be.
As a result, much of the film was shot in Berlin, which provided Renoir with the opportunity to cast Werner Krauss, star of the expressionist film classic The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919), as the male lead.
Daniel Isn't Real (2019)
Directed by Adam Egypt Mortimer
influenced by The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Plot
Even as far back as 1920’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, where a twist is presented of mental delusions, instead of actual horrors.
The Woman in the Window (1944)
Directed by Fritz Lang
influenced by The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Still, it is useful to remember that Lang’s most significant contribution to The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1919) was to introduce the framing device of a dream, which horrified the original writers of the film and led Siegfried Kracauer to charge that “a revolutionary film had thus been turned into a conformist one.”(2)…
Frankenstein (1910)
Directed by J. Searle Dawley
influenced The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Visuals
Debatably the first true horror film (others come to mind, such as Thomas Edison’s 1910 Frankenstein short), the film is, among other things, a foundation for German expressionism, as well as one of the first sources for many of the conventions and styles eventually adopted into film noir.
This links the reanimation film to that distinct subgenre of transplant horror, which includes such films as The Hands of Orlac, Body Parts, and The Eye, films in which the past lives of donated body parts return to haunt their present owners.
The Babadook (2014)
Directed by Jennifer Kent
influenced by The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Visuals
Kent is clearly steeped in the history of horror, as her depiction of the Babadook is an amalgam of a number of classical horror figures—the clothes of the mad doctor in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), the weird grinning visage of Lon Chaney’s vampire in Tod Browning’s lost London After Midnight (1927), and Max Shreck’s elongated digits in Nosferatu (1922).
Relic (2020)
Directed by Natalie Erika James
influenced by The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Themes
Few terrors are more primal, after all, than the fear that one cannot trust their own faculties, and the ambiguity of not knowing whether a film’s protagonist is simply imagining the forces pursuing them has been mined since at least The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.