If you like a good scary movie around this time of year, like I do, let me recommend this, "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari." It is 1920 silent German Horror film and considered the first film to use expressionism, and surrealist production. Dr. Caligari is also considered the first psychological horror film, and the first movie ever to utilize the twist ending.
Here is the synopsis:
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (German: Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari) is a 1920 German silent horror film directed by Robert Wiene and written by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer. Considered the quintessential work of German Expressionist cinema, it tells the story of an insane hypnotist (Werner Krauss) who uses a brainwashed somnambulist (Conrad Veidt) to commit murders. The film features a dark, twisted visual style, with sharp-pointed forms, oblique, curving lines, structures and landscapes that lean and twist in unusual angles, and shadows and streaks of light painted directly onto the sets.
I know everyone's tastes are different, and this isn't for everyone, but me personally...I find these old black and white silent horror films (especially the German ones) creepy and terrifying.
Enjoy your Halloween season.
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