establishment, was depicted as mad with power; in the revised version, Francis is revealed to be insane. The method of the Expressionist is turned back on itself by the conservative regime. Other techniques of Expressionism were also used by the conservatives in Germany during the 20s and early 30s. To begin with, the functions of the tropes of Expressionism were re-worked to make the empathetic subjects of Expressionism seem horrific. How did the use of the tropes of Expressionism and Primitivism make the madman into a psychopath? S.S. Prawer writes that the horror genre started in the first decade of 1900, growing as "a wave whose crest is reached in the silent German cinema, from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Richard Oswald's terror compendium Uncanny Tales ..."' into a full genre that comes and goes through the decades. He frames the rise of the horror genre in "the First World War, its anticipatory rumbles, and the social and political upheavals that followed in its wake"(9). Prawer's classification of these films as horror films is significant, as it illustrates the way these films are received today. Prawer goes on, a bit later, to discuss Expressionism's role in the depiction of the horrific in film. He writes, 'Expressionism' had furnished a style of acting and scene-design that proved admirably suited to the translation of these Romantic themes into terms of the silent film"(32). In other words, he characterizes Expressionism as a set of tools that was utilized to meet a current demand-the demand for horror. Prawer's impression of Expressionism is a bit shallow here. He makes no mention of Expressionism as a movement outside of film and does not address the fact Uncanny Tales is referred to here as Weird Tales, the title under which the video was released.