Supernatural

1933 "Leave Your Love Secrets At Home When You See "SUPERNATURAL"!"
6.2| 1h5m| en
Details

After her brother's death, Roma Courtney becomes the heiress to his fortune. When fake psychic Paul Bavian claims to have a message from Roma's dead brother, he coaxes Roma into participating in a séance. Although Roma's fiancé, Grant, first believes the séance is nothing more than a scam, he eventually realizes that the vengeful spirit of an executed murderer has possessed Roma's body.

AD
AD

Watch Free for 30 Days

All Prime Video Movies and TV Shows. Cancel anytime. Watch Now

Trailers & Clips

Reviews

Console best movie i've ever seen.
Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.
Bluebell Alcock Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies
Abbigail Bush what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.
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.
Jake Unlike a lot of reviewers here, I was quite impressed by this film. Sure it's not scary - I didn't expect it to be - but it effectively builds an unsettling atmosphere without resorting to the usual mood enhancers such as haunted houses, gloomy mansions, isolated islands, etc. Prosaic things such as a spark generated from a railway wheel, the taking of a key, have an edge to them. There are also some very nice touches along the way, eg, the dog bringing the slippers to Carole Lombard's brother. It is also interesting to see Carole Lombard this early in her career - from my point of view she acquits herself quite well in the part. And H. B Warner is also well suited to his role of Dr Houston. Randolph Scott however is wooden, and the role of Bavian could have done with a more charismatic player than Alan Dinehart. The real scene stealer in this movie however is Beryl Mercer - much better in this than anything else I have seen her in.I also find this film interesting plot-wise, as I have on occasion come across texts which refer to "The Uninvited" as the first significant Hollywood film to deal with spirit possession when clearly this is not the case. I suppose it depends on what you mean by significant.Anyway, it is certainly interesting to see what the makers of "White Zombie" came up with when they had the backing of a major studio.
AgedInWood Supernatural is a slow moving pic about séance versus science as Carole Lombard is exposed to the dark side via a shady mystic and an overzealous doctor. A dull plot and even duller characters. As a Lombard fan, I like to see how she fared early in her career. Her acting in this film is just so-so and it brings to light how much she improved in the last nine years of her life. The big plus is Randolph Scott, not for his acting but for his physique. He's definitely easy on the eyes in a movie that otherwise put me to sleep.
Davejholt I too have seen Supernatural very recently and I found it to be silly and trite. I kept telling myself that this wasn't Carole Lombard that I was watching as I couldn't believe she would do such a horrible movie. Alas, it was she and it was also Randolph Scott hamming it up in too many scenes. But, unlike another critic of this movie at this site I did not see Robert Montgomery anywhere in this movie.Give credit where credit is due and withold it when it isn't due. Robert Montgomery was nowhere near this abomination of a movie.Dave Holt