The Devil Commands (1941)

- written December 29th, 2010

Summary: Dr. Julian Blair is engaged in research on human brain waves when his wife is tragically killed in an auto accident. The grief-stricken scientist becomes obsessed with redirecting his work into making contact with the dead by using his brain-wave research. He moves his laboratory to an isolated mansion where he continues to try to reach out to his dead wife. He is aided by a phony medium who tries to assist him and her own career with the research. Soon enough people will die the close Dr. Blair gets to communicating with the already dead!           Overall: It’s a very silly film that frankly has no idea what it’s doing. Their science is so fake, and so flawed, you can tell that the characters can’t even explain what they’re doing, with any conviction either. It’s just all obviously fake science that makes no sense and looks like it! Big fan of Boris Karloff but this is a mess.           Comparison: Ghost meets Brainstorm

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