DVD Talk reviews for Wednesday, April 1st, 2020
Supernatural (Blu-ray)
by Stuart Galbraith IVIt's not every day classic horror film admirers get the chance to see a "brand-new" title, one heard about but never seen through the decades. That, at least, is true for me with regard to Supernatural (1933), a strange jumble of a movie telling and eventually fusing two contrasting stories at once: one concerning a fake spiritualist's efforts to bilk a grieving heiress, the other about "real" afterlife possession, in this case by an executed serial murderess. Horror trappings are present throughout though it still only barely qualifies as a horror film. Carole Lombard, way out of her element but still appealing, stars.
The short (65-minute) film opens well, then slows way down for a stretch of mostly ordinary drawing room chitchat, then builds up steam again for i...Read the entire review »