Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Yvonne Jodi Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Phillida Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

calvinnme ... you're expecting the Carole Lombard of those great mid-30's screwball comedies and beyond. However, she does give a great dual personality performance here. In order to make it believable that she is possessed by the more aggressive personality, she has to make the other personality extra demure and undistinguished so you can tell them apart. Believe me, you can.The film opens with Ruth Rogen being tried, convicted, and sentenced to death for strangling her three lovers with her bare hands for the fun of it all. Dr. Carl Houston (H.B. Warner) comes to visit Miss Rogen in jail and asks if he can perform some experiments on her once she is dead, since the good doctor is interested in the paranormal. She agrees only because she sees the possibility of the escape of her soul into another person's body - it seems there is one more person she wants to strangle before she closes her affairs in this world and she doesn't care whose body she uses to do it.At the same time, wealthy Roma Courtney (Carole Lombard) has just lost her twin brother, John, through death. There are some nice touches here showing the depth of Roma's grief and her close relationship with her brother including her playing some home recordings that the two had made together and their dog, confused by his master's absence, bringing John's slippers to a now all too empty chair. Slimy fake spiritualist Paul Bavian (Alan Dinehart) reads the newspapers and gets an idea. At night he slips into the mortuary where John's body is, makes a death mask of John's face, and then uses that mask to try and perpetrate a fraud on Roma, claiming that he can reach beyond the grave and contact John. Did I mention that Bavian is the one that informed on Ruth to the police when he couldn't get her to break off their affair? Did I also mention that Roma got a little too close to Ruth's body during one of Dr. Houston's experiments one night? I think you probably know where this is going.This one is very atmospheric and moves quite briskly at only 65 minutes in length. The séance scenes are not scary at all, since the audience can see how Bavian is doing his tricks, but the scene where Roma and her fiancé walk in unexpectedly to Houston's lab and see the body of Ruth Rogen sitting upright in a chair, dressed in some kind of evening gown, seeming to stare right at them - that is good precode horror stuff.

Michael_Elliott Supernatural (1933) ** 1/2 (out of 4) Decent horror/thriller from Paramount has a woman about to be executed for killing three of her lovers during an orgy. She asks for her forth lover to come visit her but when she refuses she swears revenge. After her death a doctor accidentally releases her spirit into the body of a good girl (Carole Lombard) who then tries to carry out the death wish. This here was directed by Victor Halperin who directed White Zombie the previous year and the biggest difference between the two films is that this one here actually moves at a rather fast pace unlike the Lugosi title. On the other hand the story is a bit too dry to be fully entertaining and both Lombard and Randolph Scott give pretty mediocre performances.

Maciste_Brother In time, many films are forgotten. Some are unjustifiably forgotten while others are justifiably forgotten. SUPERNATURAL is one of the latter. It's a valiant attempt at horror from the director of WHITE ZOMBIE but in the end, it just doesn't work. The cast in excellent. The sets are excellent. The cinematography is excellent. Some scenes are really effective but nothing gels together and the end product is more a collection of ideas strung together but with no idea of what to do with them. The worst part of the film is the ending. It's truly groan inducing, even for a film made in the 1930s.The most amazing scene in SUPERNATURAL is the one at the prison, when the warden and psychologist have a discussion. Nothing interesting really occurs during this scene except during a brief moment during their conversation, we see prisoners walking in line in the yard outside the office window. The composition and imagery is quite startling. I've never seen anything like this.But even with these flashes of brilliance here and there, SUPERNATURAL is simply not worth your time or attention.

preppy-3 Silly horror tale about the soul of an executed murderess possessing the body of another woman. Film starts off well but quickly becomes slow and boring. Some impressive visuals throughout, but the main plot is absurd--according to this, the spirits of executed killers possess living people and have them perform "copycat" murders! It's ridiculous and we're supposed to take it seriously.The cast doesn't help. With the sole exception on Vivienne Osborne as the murderess everyone is horrible--even Carole Lombard and Randolph Scott! Lombard was forced into this movie--she really didn't want to do it--and it shows. Montgomery is certainly handsome but VERY bland and dull. The rest of the cast is just hopeless--none of them went on to become well-known--it's easy to see why.An old, creaky boring horror film. Don't bother.