Review – The Devil Commands

For something that I randomly recorded, this actually turned out to be fairly good. Boris Karloff plays a scientist who becomes obsessed with communicating with his dead wife by channeling her brain waves. He achieves some initial success via a mildly psychic woman running a medium scam, but then his work causes injuries and he has to leave town. In his new digs he finds himself distrusted by the locals, particularly after bodies start disappearing from the town cemetery. The electro-séance thing he sets up with the diving-suit-wrapped corpses is actually kinda creepy. Though this isn’t the best horror movie I’ve ever seen, it does have a few spooky moments and a delightfully eerie atmosphere throughout. Worth seeing