The man is very different - a mustachioed, leather-jacketed macho type. The woman and one of the men appear to be brother and sister and are both dressed in formal party clothes. Set in the aftermath of a cataclysmic nuclear war that has destroyed most of the world’s population, Human Animals tells of three survivors - one woman and two men - who wake up on a strange, deserted landscape with no memory of their past lives and without the ability to even speak. ***FIRST NEW TITLE ANNOUNCEMENT! ON SALE AUGUST 12th!!***Ī truly bizarre marvel of Spanish exploitation/sci-fi/whatever, HUMAN ANIMALS! The original camera negative was scanned using a Lasergraphics Director 4K and was graded in consultation with director Stephen Sayadian. CALIGARI maintains its wild and intoxicating energy throughout, pulling the audience deep into its erotic nightmare world, in an experience not soon to be forgotten. Aware that some omniscient force is exposing her nudism, she tries to hide behind the disappearing bars. In just the first few minutes of the film, we get the first visual joke as SMPTE colour bars slowly peel away to reveal a naked woman lounging on a couch. The dialogue is ripe with delicious one-liners (“My feelings are like filthy prayers I want to scream into your face”) and incredible visual gags. CALIGARI might be one of the American cinema's most incisive and unique portraits of national excess ever to grace the screen.Ībove all else, though, the film has a biting and over-the-top sense of humour. Far more than just narratively similar, Sayadian's background in set design and art keeps with the silent classic's highly stylized design, updated with the bright, disorienting commercialism of 1980s Americana. Caligari, who diagnoses her with a “disease of the libido”. Van Houten, a woman who seems to be losing touch with reality, and her treatment under Dr. As the film’s title might suggest, the film is a loose remake of the German Expressionist classic, following Mrs. CALIGARI embraces the avant-garde in its exquisite and hilarious exploitation of America’s repressed libido.

Bizarre, stunning, goofy and unsettling, DR. For the first time since its release, thanks to a new restoration, it will finally find its audience, and retroactively be appreciated as the underground masterpiece that it is.

In 1989, Stephen Sayadian, aka Rinse Dream, released one of the most iconic and fantastical works in American exploitation cinema. CALIGARI” (1989) debuts at Fantasia International Film Festival A new 4K restoration of Rinse Dream’s “DR.

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