BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Matylda Swan It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

Scarecrow-88 Lon Chaney as Satan—how could I not watch this movie?!? Well, he's the best thing about this anthology directed by Curt Siodmak regarding Beelzebub's using a suicide victim, Satanaya(Karen Kadler) to bring him souls from earth, and in return he'll see about giving her a tribunal to reward her for doing his bidding. Don(John Crawford), a fine photographer but lout to women, "kills a woman" while on vacation in Massachusetts, his psyche slowly unraveling as the guilt begins to overcome him. Essentially, the first tale is about a man coming apart at the seams, his frailties as a misogynist getting the better of him as a photograph he took of the "murder victim" torments him. The second tale concerns a scientist, Dr. Siestrom(Frank Taylor), who becomes obsessed with an "anthropological find", basically a woman encased in ice, found in a mine, even murdering an anthropologist in charge of *studying* her, so he can have her all to himself. It will prove to be his undoing when attempts to melt the ice and release her from the icy tomb. The third tale follows a man who has been suffering nightmares about a building, visits a psychic informing him that she sees in her crystal ball that he will be dead by midnight. He wants to know the one who will commit this deed and she tells him it will be her! So he rushes out telling her she'll have to find him first! John Rainer(Michael Hinn) and the fortuneteller spend most of this tale discussing the murder that is supposed to occur in a manner of time, the supposed victim deliberating on how he'll survive (contemplating killing her in order to live). The final scene, after Satanya is successful in "luring" her former lover to hell, has Satan unveiling his plan to give us the atomic bomb to destroy ourselves so he can have more space (since hell is becoming crowded!). Chaney is a delight as a gleeful Satan, seemingly having a ball in the role, but this collection of Swedish television shows, edited into a movie format, barely linked together, are mostly dull, cheap, with a lack of real thrills. The third tale, involving Rainer's trying to escape a tragic fate foretold to him by a spooky psychic, is the most atmospheric while the second tale, regarding the scientist and the frozen girl he has become infatuated with, is the silliest. My favorite sequence of events comes in the first tale where every time John looks at a photograph, the girl he killed seems closer and closer; it's a simple but affective way of symbolizing death's drawing nearer and nearer. Before each tale, Satan gives Satanya an object (camera, crystal ball, etc) to take back to earth as a means to kick-start the proceedings. Chaney's eyes light up when his Prince of Darkness addresses Satanya's comments on having to return to participate in bringing him new victims as he mentions that they contribute to their own demise--he just assists them!

gavin6942 The devil (Lon Chaney) is the host of a three-part film wherein we get some short tales of evil... people who will soon be joining the devil and his assistant Satanya in heck. The tales include a frozen woman, a murderous photographer, a fortune teller and some other stuff.Why am i being vague? Because, frankly, this film was a pile of rubbish. It isn't even a real film but a compilation of three episodes of some older Swedish show. I mean, it's not bad, the stories are decent... but they're over a decade old. So yeah, you take a decade old television show and try to pass it off as a motion picture... you're going to fail.The jacket that came with the movie also lied to me, saying the plot revolved around a plan to pass around the instructions of a nuclear weapon. That is not even in the film until the end and we never see where it goes... so that's such a misleading thing. I kind of wanted to know, but I guess I won't. And Lon Chaney... I mean, he's awesome, but this doesn't really showcase his skills at all... please, if you haven't, see "Spider Baby".

kai ringler I don't know why some people just don't like this film, i thought Lon Chaney Jr. was great in it; as the Devil, he sends a woman, Satanya to Earth to deliver objects to people he wants to see in hell, This movie was very creepy and entertaining, as well as engrossing. some people say they didn't like Chaney's face all bloated, so what, the acting was good, and he was very conniving as the Devil, I really didn't find too much wrong with the film except a couple of noticeable scenery that was obviously fake, but hey if that's all that's wrong with it then i have no problem with it. as far as taking the 3 installments from 13 demon st. i couldn't really tell. if they did it , then it was done very seamlessly. the movie reminds me of the old TV shows. Alfred Hitcock Presents. and Rod Sterling's .. The Twilight Zone.

mike1964 ***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** This movie is Herbert L. Strock's stitching together of 3 episodes from Curt Siodmak's disasterous TV series "13 Demon Street." The 3 episodes are stitched together with footage of Lon Chaney Jr and Karen Kadler. Chaney plays the devil and Kadler the Devil's Messenger. She has committed suicide and Chaney asks her to deliver 3 items to 3 people to help them get to Hell. The first "episode" is about a photographer who kills a strange young woman while on vacation in Maine. He had photographed her exiting an old country house. When he develops the film, she is not in the picture. As the story develops, she appears in the picture and slowly works to the foreground. Eventually, she enters the photographer's study and strangles him.Episode 2 is about a woman found frozen in ice at the bottom of a mine. A very odd scientist falls in love with the woman. To keep the frozen doll to himself, he kills his fellow scientist. The woman opens her eyes so our hero decides to thaw the ice. As he does, she mysteriously drowns! When the ice is completely gone, there is no woman.At the start of the final episode, we find that the man in it is supposedly the lover of Karen Kadler who drove her to suicide. The episode has absolutely nothing to do with this of course. A man has a recurring dream and always wakes up prior to entering a mysterious building. He goes to his psych who recommends he face his fears by going to the place in real life. He does and meets a fortune teller inside. She tells him he will die at midnight and she will be the killer. He kills her first, but the fortune teller statue falls on him at midnight.Now the man from the 3rd episode appears in Hell with Karen Kadler. He is a little slow in realizing where he is. Chaney tells both that together they will deliver his final "message." It is a megaton bomb that there are to deliver to the audience.Actually, as hokey as this sounds, it is okay. The actors seem like amatuers and the sound quality isn't great. However, the stories are compelling and it's great to see Chaney at this stage in his career. I believe this was Kadler's only film appearance, but she is acceptable as the Devil's Messenger.