Thrillers from the Vault – 8 Classic Films
Blu-ray
Mill Creek Entertainment
1941, 1942, 1943, 1951 / B&w / 1.33: 1 / Blu ray
Starring Boris Karloff, Anne Revere, Peter Lorre, Bela Lugosi
Written by Robert Andrews, Edwin Blum, Randall Faye, Arch Oboler
Directed by Edward Dmytryk, Lew Landers, Arch Oboler
This is part two of a review for Mill Creek Entertainment’s Thrillers from the Vault, 8 Classics Films. Part one can be found here.
The Devil Commands is a hell of a title, and it’s a pretty good movie too. Released in 1941, Edward Dmytryk’s spookfest stars Boris Karloff as Julian Blair, a scientist whose experiments are a family affair—his wife Helen is one of his subjects.
Blair achieves his goal—a machine that records thought processes—but on a night he should be celebrating, his wife is killed in a car crash. Something breaks inside Blair and when he discovers that Helen may continue to live on through his invention,...
Blu-ray
Mill Creek Entertainment
1941, 1942, 1943, 1951 / B&w / 1.33: 1 / Blu ray
Starring Boris Karloff, Anne Revere, Peter Lorre, Bela Lugosi
Written by Robert Andrews, Edwin Blum, Randall Faye, Arch Oboler
Directed by Edward Dmytryk, Lew Landers, Arch Oboler
This is part two of a review for Mill Creek Entertainment’s Thrillers from the Vault, 8 Classics Films. Part one can be found here.
The Devil Commands is a hell of a title, and it’s a pretty good movie too. Released in 1941, Edward Dmytryk’s spookfest stars Boris Karloff as Julian Blair, a scientist whose experiments are a family affair—his wife Helen is one of his subjects.
Blair achieves his goal—a machine that records thought processes—but on a night he should be celebrating, his wife is killed in a car crash. Something breaks inside Blair and when he discovers that Helen may continue to live on through his invention,...
- 3/4/2023
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
Article by Jim Batts, Dana Jung, and Tom Stockman
No other actor in the long history of horror has been so closely identified with the genre as Boris Karloff, yet he was as famous for his gentle heart and kindness as he was for his screen persona. William Henry Pratt was born on November 23, 1887, in Camberwell, London, England. He studied at London University in anticipation of a diplomatic career; however, he moved to Canada in 1909 and joined a theater company where he was bit by the acting bug. It was there that he adopted the stage name of “Boris Karloff.” He toured back and forth across the USA for over ten years in a variety of low-budget Theater shows and eventually ended up in Hollywood. Needing cash to support himself, Karloff landed roles in silent films making his on-screen debut in Chapter 2 of the 1919 serial The Masked Rider. His big...
No other actor in the long history of horror has been so closely identified with the genre as Boris Karloff, yet he was as famous for his gentle heart and kindness as he was for his screen persona. William Henry Pratt was born on November 23, 1887, in Camberwell, London, England. He studied at London University in anticipation of a diplomatic career; however, he moved to Canada in 1909 and joined a theater company where he was bit by the acting bug. It was there that he adopted the stage name of “Boris Karloff.” He toured back and forth across the USA for over ten years in a variety of low-budget Theater shows and eventually ended up in Hollywood. Needing cash to support himself, Karloff landed roles in silent films making his on-screen debut in Chapter 2 of the 1919 serial The Masked Rider. His big...
- 11/23/2015
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
A few days ago we shared a new TV spot and three new images from The Last Exorcism 2, which comes from director Ed Gass-Donnelly and opens next month. As you already see – today it’s time for us to share the latest poster for the whole thing. It looks pretty creepy, and once again we have a little warning: God asks – the Devil commands. We’ll see about that!
Ed Gass-Donnelly directs the movie from a script he co-wrote with Damien Chazelle and the story picks up where the 2010 first film left off.
In other words – we have Nell Sweetzer who, unable to remember the events of the previous months, begins the process of starting a new life, but… the evil force that once possessed her has quite different plans for the poor woman!
Starring Ashley Bell, Andrew Sensenig, Spencer Treat Clark, Muse Watson, David Jensen & Judd Lormand, The Last Exorcism 2...
Ed Gass-Donnelly directs the movie from a script he co-wrote with Damien Chazelle and the story picks up where the 2010 first film left off.
In other words – we have Nell Sweetzer who, unable to remember the events of the previous months, begins the process of starting a new life, but… the evil force that once possessed her has quite different plans for the poor woman!
Starring Ashley Bell, Andrew Sensenig, Spencer Treat Clark, Muse Watson, David Jensen & Judd Lormand, The Last Exorcism 2...
- 2/2/2013
- by Jeanne Standal
- Filmofilia
Boris Karloff is recognized as one of the true icons of horror cinema. Check out our top ten list from last week: Top Ten Tuesday – The Best Of Boris Karloff Here. We like to celebrate the great Hollywood Boogie Men at Super-8 Movie Madness and this August’s show is no exception. We’ve had Super-8 Vincent Price Movie Madness and now on Tuesday August 7th at The Way Out Club we’ll be presenting – Super-8 Boris Karloff Movie Madness !!!
That’s right; we’ll be showing condensed (average length: 15 minutes) versions of several of Boris Karloff’s greatest films on Super-8 sound film projected on a big screen. Here’s the Karloff line-up: Frankenstein, Bride Of Frankenstein, House Of Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Devil Commands, The Raven (with Bela Lugosi), and Abbott And Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde. The non-Karloff movies shown August 7th are: The Deadly Mantis,...
That’s right; we’ll be showing condensed (average length: 15 minutes) versions of several of Boris Karloff’s greatest films on Super-8 sound film projected on a big screen. Here’s the Karloff line-up: Frankenstein, Bride Of Frankenstein, House Of Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Devil Commands, The Raven (with Bela Lugosi), and Abbott And Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde. The non-Karloff movies shown August 7th are: The Deadly Mantis,...
- 8/6/2012
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Article by Jim Batts, Dana Jung, and Tom Stockman
No other actor in the long history of horror has been so closely identified with the genre as Boris Karloff, yet he was as famous for his gentle heart and kindness as he was for his screen persona. William Henry Pratt was born on November 23, 1887, in Camberwell, London, England. He studied at London University in anticipation of a diplomatic career; however, he moved to Canada in 1909 and joined a theater company where he was bit by the acting bug. It was there that he adopted the stage name of “Boris Karloff.” He toured back and forth across the USA for over ten years in a variety of low-budget Theater shows and eventually ended up in Hollywood. Needing cash to support himself, Karloff landed roles in silent films making his on-screen debut in Chapter 2 of the 1919 serial The Masked Rider. His big...
No other actor in the long history of horror has been so closely identified with the genre as Boris Karloff, yet he was as famous for his gentle heart and kindness as he was for his screen persona. William Henry Pratt was born on November 23, 1887, in Camberwell, London, England. He studied at London University in anticipation of a diplomatic career; however, he moved to Canada in 1909 and joined a theater company where he was bit by the acting bug. It was there that he adopted the stage name of “Boris Karloff.” He toured back and forth across the USA for over ten years in a variety of low-budget Theater shows and eventually ended up in Hollywood. Needing cash to support himself, Karloff landed roles in silent films making his on-screen debut in Chapter 2 of the 1919 serial The Masked Rider. His big...
- 8/1/2012
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Super-8 Movie Madness With Live Music at the Way Out Club will be held on Tuesday April 5th from 8pm to Midnight. These are Super-8 Sound films condensed from features (they average 15 minutes in length) and will be projected on a large screen at the Way Out Club. Three of the films at this month’s show will be silent movies accompanied by Royale on keyboards. Admission is only Four dollars !!!!
Condensed versions of the following films will be screened: Abbott And Costello Meet Dr. Jeckyl And Mr. Hyde, Boris Karloff in The Devil Commands, The Beatles in Yellow Submarine, Silent Running, The Three Stooges in Tassels In The Air, Bruce Lee in Enter The Dragon, Peter Cushing in The Beast Must Die, It Came From Beneath The Sea, White Line Fever, Monkeys Is The Cwaziest People, and a Max Fleisher Superman Cartoon.
The talented Royal Robbins will take the...
Condensed versions of the following films will be screened: Abbott And Costello Meet Dr. Jeckyl And Mr. Hyde, Boris Karloff in The Devil Commands, The Beatles in Yellow Submarine, Silent Running, The Three Stooges in Tassels In The Air, Bruce Lee in Enter The Dragon, Peter Cushing in The Beast Must Die, It Came From Beneath The Sea, White Line Fever, Monkeys Is The Cwaziest People, and a Max Fleisher Superman Cartoon.
The talented Royal Robbins will take the...
- 4/3/2011
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-o-Rama, Assault of the Killer Bimbos, Dr. Alien, Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge, Ghost Writer, Circuitry Man, Creepozoids, Dream A Little Evil, Nightmare Sisters, etc. These are all films that 80's horror fans grew up watching either through USA's Up All Night, though Cinemax or Showtime, through their love of either Linnea Quigley or Brinke Stevens, or through looking through the seemingly endless shelves at the good old video stores of yesteryear. Royce Mathew was involved in every single one of these films functioning, as he put it himself, either through "custodial work and production assisting - to (in no order) writing, editing, costumes, props, art direction, construction, directing, producing, sound, special effects and publicity". We took a moment to pick apart Royce's brain on working on all these legendary B movies and then got a bit serious to let him discuss an ongoing legal...
- 1/3/2011
- by Big Daddy aka Brandon Sites
- Big Daddy Horror Reviews - Interviews
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