The film I would compare to The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari in the 20th century would be Fight Club. I feel like Fight Club has a lot of similarities to the film. They both have a narrator that is untrustworthy and invite the audience to challenges their perception of reality. Fight Club is a movie about a boring depressed man who meets a interesting guy who has all the characteristics that he wishes he had in his life. Both of the stories are happening in the narrator's imagination and revealed at the end of the films. Throughout the movie the narrator has you believing one thing and then at the end just like in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari a plot twist reveals what is actually happening in the mind of the narrator. In fight Club the main character (Sebastian) and the secondary character (Tyler) are actual the same person. Fight Club also uses distorted and dark sets and locations, over expression in character acting and dark makeup similar to the way these things are used in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Although Fight Club is not really a horror film it mirrors the film in a psychological way that creates suspense in each movie.
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