{"id":6692,"date":"2015-10-26T23:00:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T03:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/?p=6692"},"modified":"2015-10-28T22:29:02","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T02:29:02","slug":"johns-horror-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/johns-horror-26\/","title":{"rendered":"John D&#8217;Amico&#8217;s Horror on YouTube #26 &#8211; Dr. Caligari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6509\" style=\"border: 4px solid  #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/caligari.jpg\" alt=\"caligari\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RyATCim_vKk\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Caligari<\/a>\u00a0(1989) | Dir. Stephen Sayadian | 80 min.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Every day in October, a recommendation from John D&#8217;Amico\u00a0of a horror\u00a0movie or TV episode available for free on YouTube. Enjoy:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The premise here is that Dr. Caligari\u2019s granddaughter is continuing his experiments except with more bangin\u2019. Porno director Stephen Sayadian\u2019s sequel\/parody\/softcore remake of the expressionist classic The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari has a lot of outsized dream imagery to live up to, and its high-contrast neon minimalism is, if nothing else, memorable.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s pure camp but unlike, say, Rocky Horror, it has enough unpredictability and grisliness in its veins to stick the landing as an actual horror movie as well. Parts are as effectively dreamlike as anything I\u2019ve seen, living in that sweet spot between the ambitious but unwatchable Begotten and the safe Nightmare on Elm Street. It\u2019s not just visually unusual, either \u2013 the gender inversion and power games make for some captivating operatic cinema.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RyATCim_vKk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6509\" style=\"border: 4px solid  #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/caligari.jpg\" alt=\"caligari\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RyATCim_vKk\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Caligari<\/a>\u00a0(1989) | Dir. Stephen Sayadian | 80 min.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Every day in October, a recommendation from John D&#8217;Amico\u00a0of a horror\u00a0movie or TV episode available for free on YouTube. Enjoy:<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,1157,5100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allposts","category-johns-reviews","category-youtubehorror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6692"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6698,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6692\/revisions\/6698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}