The Caligari Insane Asylum (CIA, to those in the know) is an unusual place. Built on a festering toxic waste dump, its strangely two-dimensional towers rise darkly against the night sky in an expressionistic wriggle of impossible angles. It's no surprise that the patients are a strange
bunch, but their keepers are little better. There's leering Dr. Avol (Fox Harris), and Dr. and Nurse Lodger (David Parry and Jennifer Balgobin), a peculiar couple who do everything--smoke, speak, move--in tandem. Strangest of all is Dr. Caligari (Madeleine Reynal) herself, a statuesque beauty
whose professional interests have a distinctly lurid cast. Years of research into the functi...
Released:
1990
Rated:
NR
Length:
80 mins