“Lombard Possessed”
By Raymond Benson
Victor Halperin and his brother Edward were a Hollywood filmmaking team in the early 30s who specialized in low budget schlock, for lack of a better description. Sort of the William Castle of the era. For example, they were responsible for the Bela Lugosi eye-roller, White Zombie (1932).
How they got Carole Lombard to star in this hoot of a pre-code horror film is more of a wonder than the film itself, but here she is in all her blonde beauty, playing a non-comedic, almost villainous, role. Supernatural is exactly the type of movie you might have seen as a kid on the Friday or Saturday late night TV horror presentation hosted by a kitsch spooky host like Elvira or Svengoolie or Count Floyd of “Monster Chiller Horror Theater” (Sctv fans will get that reference). The flick is short, cheap, unintentionally funny, and dumb—but a...
By Raymond Benson
Victor Halperin and his brother Edward were a Hollywood filmmaking team in the early 30s who specialized in low budget schlock, for lack of a better description. Sort of the William Castle of the era. For example, they were responsible for the Bela Lugosi eye-roller, White Zombie (1932).
How they got Carole Lombard to star in this hoot of a pre-code horror film is more of a wonder than the film itself, but here she is in all her blonde beauty, playing a non-comedic, almost villainous, role. Supernatural is exactly the type of movie you might have seen as a kid on the Friday or Saturday late night TV horror presentation hosted by a kitsch spooky host like Elvira or Svengoolie or Count Floyd of “Monster Chiller Horror Theater” (Sctv fans will get that reference). The flick is short, cheap, unintentionally funny, and dumb—but a...
- 3/20/2020
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Wow! That glorious original poster jumped out at us, making us ask why we couldn’t see this classic-era Paramount horror picture starring the brilliant and glamorous Carole Lombard and directed by the maker of White Zombie. Well, it’s finally shown up to answer that question on Blu-ray. This fairly insubstantial spiritualist vs. scientist spook show about a lady strangler returned from the dead is no classic but will of course be a major curiosity for horror buffs. It’s short on real scares, but it does have a young Randolph Scott to race to the rescue at the finish.
Supernatural
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1933 / B&w / 1:37 flat Academy / 64 min. / Street Date April 7, 2020 / available through Kl Studio Classics / 24.95
Starring: Carole Lombard, Randolph Scott, Vivienne Osborne, Alan Dinehart, H.B. Warner, Beryl Mercer.
Cinematography: Arthur Martinelli
Dialogue Director: Sidney Salkow
Written by Harvey Thew, Brian Marlow story by Garnett Weston...
Supernatural
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1933 / B&w / 1:37 flat Academy / 64 min. / Street Date April 7, 2020 / available through Kl Studio Classics / 24.95
Starring: Carole Lombard, Randolph Scott, Vivienne Osborne, Alan Dinehart, H.B. Warner, Beryl Mercer.
Cinematography: Arthur Martinelli
Dialogue Director: Sidney Salkow
Written by Harvey Thew, Brian Marlow story by Garnett Weston...
- 3/17/2020
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Before Vincent Price haunted houses, he chalked up plenty of experience as a Broadway star and a versatile character actor. This superb Joseph L. Mankiewicz gothic romance assigns him major leading man duty as a ‘dark and troubled’ soul — the kind that intimidates cowering leading ladies. With typical good humor, Price called it the first of his ‘dead wife’ movies!
Dragonwyck
Blu-ray
Twilight Time
1946 / B&W / 1:37 Academy / 103 min. / Street Date , 2018 / Available from the Twilight Time Movies Store / 29.95
Starring: Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Vincent Price, Glenn Langan, Anne Revere, Spring Byington, Connie Marshall, Harry Morgan, Vivienne Osborne, Jessica Tandy, Trudy Marshall, Reinhold Schünzel, Grady Sutton.
Cinematography: Arthur C. Miller
Film Editor: Dorothy Spencer
Original Music: Alfred Newman
From the novel by Anya Seton
Produced by Ernst Lubitsch, Darryl F. Zanuck
Written for the screen and Directed by Joseph H. Mankiewicz
You’d have to say that Vincent Price’s film...
Dragonwyck
Blu-ray
Twilight Time
1946 / B&W / 1:37 Academy / 103 min. / Street Date , 2018 / Available from the Twilight Time Movies Store / 29.95
Starring: Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Vincent Price, Glenn Langan, Anne Revere, Spring Byington, Connie Marshall, Harry Morgan, Vivienne Osborne, Jessica Tandy, Trudy Marshall, Reinhold Schünzel, Grady Sutton.
Cinematography: Arthur C. Miller
Film Editor: Dorothy Spencer
Original Music: Alfred Newman
From the novel by Anya Seton
Produced by Ernst Lubitsch, Darryl F. Zanuck
Written for the screen and Directed by Joseph H. Mankiewicz
You’d have to say that Vincent Price’s film...
- 3/13/2018
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
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