We had learned earlier this year that horror classic The Cabinet of Dr. Caligariis getting a contemporary reimagining titledDoctor Caligari’s Cabinet of Wonders, with Michael Shannon set to star and John Erick Dowdle(As Above, So Below, Devil) directing from a script he wrote with his brother and creative partnerDrew Dowdle.
Variety reports this week that Talia Ryder (Honey Don’t!) will also star.
The project is said to be a “terrifying and mind-bending psychological horror” movie.
Michael Shannon will play Doctor Caligari, a traveling mesmerist who journeys from town to town with a sleepwalker under his control, leaving a trail of grisly murders in their wake. When a young woman’s boyfriend disappears mysteriously, she believes that the enigmatic Doctor Caligari is somehow responsible. The problem is — nobody believes her.
Variety details that Talia Ryder “will play Jane, an intuitive young woman whose ability to perceive what others can’t has left her an outcast. Haunted by her sister’s murder and her parents’ betrayal, she discovers her greatest burden may be her greatest strength.”
Released in 1920,Robert Wiene’sThe Cabinet of Dr. Caligariis a quintessential work of German Expressionist cinema that some consider to be the first true horror film.
