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The Happiness of the Katakuris
Why this pick
Like Dr. Caligari, it gleefully demolishes good taste with lurid color, abrupt musical detours, grotesque comedy, and a deliberately unstable, cartoonishly macabre world.
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MOVIE1989 1h 20m USA
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A similarly confrontational cult nightmare: stylized monochrome noir is warped into sexually charged, blackly comic surrealism with an intentionally disorienting tone.
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Meet the Feebles
Why this pick
This has the same appetite for garish excess and taboo-smashing comedy, using an intentionally cheap-looking performance world to make its grotesquerie funnier and stranger.
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Liquid Sky
Why this pick
Its neon downtown-art-scene aesthetic, deadpan alienation, synthetic soundscape, and provocative sexual satire echo Dr. Caligari’s fiercely artificial, abrasive cult-film vibe.
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The Baby of Mâcon
Why this pick
Greenaway’s aggressively staged historical pageant shares Dr. Caligari’s fascination with taboo, spectacle, camp excess, and the uneasy overlap of horror and satire.
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01 / THE STORY
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
John Durbin
Gus Pratt
David Parry
Dr. Lodger
Stephen Quadros
Scarecrow
Marjean Holden
Patient in Bed
Laura Albert
Mrs. Van Houten
Jennifer Balgobin
Ramona Lodger