You may be surprised to know that someone who once opened a speech by stating “There’s nothing I love more than a good murder” is made to feel entirely squeamish by horror films. I know, but I just, I can’t with them. It’s almost heartbreaking for me because I’m usually interested in the narrative (which I realize is what most people whom watch horror are least interested in), but I just can’t get past it. Like, I’m all over horror in literature, but when it comes to films all I can think is ‘N O P E’. Fortunately for me the content observed in this weeks class wasn’t necessarily scary, instead it just caused me to feel rather uncomfortable. When it comes to this genre I think I’m more perturbed by cheesy jump scares than anything.

On the other hand, some of the scenes we watched this week I found rather enjoyable. In particular, Robert Wiene’s 1920 film ‘The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari’ (although looking at it on IMDB apparently it falls under the horror genre...). I’m sorry to say I haven’t seen it before, but I found the visuals to be really striking, and wouldn’t mind picking it up now. As someone who quite likes German cinema, with a focus on German expressionism (or anything starring Daniel Brühl), I’m surprised that I’ve actually managed to miss this one. That being said, I was never as big on expressionist cinema, as I was on paintings.



I really like the stylistic nature of Wiene’s film, and the use of lighting is very impressive considering the period. I can only imagine how shocking the looming figure of our star somnambulist must have seemed to audiences of the 20s’! Fortunately I think this is the sort of horror I can cope with.

I'm not really sure how to finish this post now, so I’m putting a picture of Daniel Brühl here because I can:

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