Dr. Caligari - 1989 - 5/10
The interior of the asylum as observed by one of the inmates.
Prime obsessions seem to be open sores, roving tongues and below the belt stimulation.
Husband Van Houton institutionalizes his wife for disease of the libido.
Caligari proceeds to hyper sexualize afflictions rather than cure.
Complaints are dismissed with, “Staff is expendable, genius is not.”
Theatrical, to say the least, this plays like surreal stagecraft.
Drama majors on acid.