Hooptober 11: #13
[Criteria: 1 film by Robert Wiene]

Though not as stylistically bombastic as Wiene's earlier masterpiece The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, the movie still has some mind-boggling and insane images that are honestly quite hard to believe were conceived a century ago. There are a few sequences like Orlac finding the knife atop of the piano and being horrified, and other sequences towards the end that were exceptional. Conrad Veidt is amazing as the lead and absolutely sells the inner turmoil he's experiencing. Though story wise quite simple, I loved the way Wiene unfolds the horror and the mystery.