Fantastic Fiction: Return of the Body-Hopping Supervillain: The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, West Germany experienced a boom of crime movies featuring mysterious masterminds, outlandish plots, and bizarre murder methods, shot in atmospheric black and white and frequently harkening back to the expressionist cinema of the silent era. The most interesting of these were the Dr. Mabuse films, based on a supervillain introduced during Germany’s Weimar Republic.