The cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) (Special Collector's Edition)

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In 1920, one brilliant movie jolted the postwar masses and catapulted the German Expressionist film movement into history. That movie was The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, a plunge into the mind of insanity that severs all ties with the rational world. Director Robert Wiene and a team of visionary designers crafted a nightmare realm in which light, shadow and substance are abstracted, a world in which a demented doctor and a carnival sleepwalker perpetrate a series of ghastly murders in a small community.

werner krauss stars as a deranged hypnotist who spreads death through the countryside from a ramshakle traveling carnival. before the naive eyes of the townspeople, he unveils the contents of his coffin-like cabinet: cesare, a spidery sleepwalker who obeys his every command. but at night, once the crowds have dispersed, caligari lifts the lid on darker intentions, unleashing the dreadful cesare to act upon his master's murderous whims and carnal desires.