In early 1920, Robert Wiene premiered in Berlin his silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Ever since, critics have lavished praise upon Caligari, calling it a model of German expressionist film, the greatest horror film of early cinema, and an important influence on directors later working in the film noir tradition. And, what’s more (spoiler alert), Wiene’s film introduced the ‘twist ending’ to cinema. Today, you can watch this groundbreaking film in its entirety above, download it from the Internet Archive, or find it permanently listed in our ever-growing collection of Free Movies. Thanks to Melissa for the good find…
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I think spoiler protocol is well known and I’m surprised by your violating it. The idea is to state that a spoiler is coming up so that the reader can avoid the spoiler. I’m not sure what your purpose is to print a spoiler and subsequently note that it is a spoiler. Is this to ensure that the reader will remember the spoiler and thus do its bit to ruin the experience? You perhaps think that spoiling things is this way is amusing, but I for one detest it. In this case it was totally unnecessary—simply a kind of vandalism. I hope that you are sincerely ashamed.
A person notes that a 90-year-old film has a “twist ending”–but doesn’t say what the twist is–and that’s viewed as an act of vandalism? Now that’s twisted!