In spite of the efforts of men like psychiatrist Johannes Schultz and Gustave Le Bon, hypnosis was often viewed as something supernatural or other-worldly well into the mid-twentieth century. This was not lost on German director Fritz Lang who made full use of public misconcepti...( read more)
Fritz Lang always makes such an interesting study, and despite having not seen the rest of the series, I really enjoyed this film. Lang's oeuvre is a forerunner to many of the films - and genres themselves - that we've come to take for granted. This installment in the series is a...( read more)
"the testament of dr. mabuse" is fritz lang's perverse thriller upon mental hypnotization as manipulative apparatus of evil saboteurs.
dr. mabuse is a deranged assylum patient who scrabbles abstract manuscripts to puzzle his patriachist who descends as his surrogate puppet h...( read more)
cool early german crime thriller expressing the common theme of man's anxiety in the industrial age. very good special effects for 1933! mabuse reminds me of a bond villain
Rooms flood, lots of explosions, hypnotism, ghosts, guns, car chases, and romance with details like "I don't care that you kill people, i love you for some reason!"
Lang's ahead his time and Dr.Mabuse feels like it could be a great Batman or Bond flick. Awesome.
There is a lot of neat stuff in here, the special effects of the ghost of Mabuse was just so cool, but in other parts the film dragged. All I wanted to do was to edits some scenes out, the unbearable long fire scene at the chemical plant, ,but especially the flashback scenes whic...( read more)
Fritz Lang's The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse) is the story of a police inspector's attempt to stop some criminals who are counterfeiting money and murdering people. The inspection gets kind of weird as the criminals seem to be ordered around by a guy nam...( read more)
a touch weaker than its predesessor, yet it maintains the quintessential Fritz Lang look and never lets you down when it comes to psychotic over-acting German madmen.
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