The Devil Commands (1941)
- Directed by
- Edward Dmytryk
- Genre
- horror film, science fiction film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 05m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 6.3 of 10 from 34 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A widowed scientist uses a machine to try to communicate with his dead wife. He gets involved with a fraudulent medium who has her own sinister plans.
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What happens
The Devil Commands is a 1941 American horror film directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Boris Karloff, Amanda Duff and Richard Fiske. The working title of the film was The Devil Said No. In it, a man obsessed with contacting his dead wife falls in with a sinister phony medium. The Devil Commands is one of the many films from the 1930s and 1940s in which Karloff was cast as a mad scientist with a good heart. It was one of the last in line of the low-budget horror films that were produced before Universal Studios' The Wolf Man. The story was adapted from the novel The Edge of Running Water by William Sloane. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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