The Devil Commands
mild threat, violence
Director(s)Edward Dmytryk
Production year1941
Genre(s)Drama, Horror
Approx. running minutes64m
CastBoris Karloff, Anne Revere, Amanda Duff, Richard Fiske, Ralph Penney, Dorothy Adams, Walter Baldwin, Kenneth MacDonald, Shirley Warde, Ernie Adams, Edward Dmytryk, Robert Hardy Andrews, Milton Gunzburg, William Sloane, Allen G. Siegler, Al Clark
The Devil Commands
mild threat, violence
THE DEVIL COMMANDS is a horror drama, from 1941, in which a scientist becomes obsessed with contacting his dead wife fro ...
THE DEVIL COMMANDS is a horror drama, from 1941, in which a scientist becomes obsessed with contacting his dead wife from beyond the grave.
violence
A man is grabbed by the throat and knocked unconscious in undetailed fashion.
threat and horror
A man convulses and then collapses as electricity goes through his body during a scientific experiment; a woman dies in similar manner in another experiment As the experiment develops, dead bodies are used which are seen encased in elaborate suits and helmets; an unsuspecting woman stumbles on the bodies, which terrify her and she dies off-screen. There are no gruesome details in the images of the bodies or the deaths. A ghostly apparition appears during a séance, but is revealed to have been faked.
additional issues
There are references to grave-robbing and making contact with the dead. There are scenes in which characters smoke, which reflect the historical period in which the film was made.
Classified Date:
30/05/1941
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Columbia Picture Corp. Ltd
mild threat, violence
Classified Date:
09/04/2021
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Eureka Entertainment Ltd
violence
A man is grabbed by the throat and knocked unconscious in undetailed fashion.
threat and horror
A man convulses and then collapses as electricity goes through his body during a scientific experiment; a woman dies in similar manner in another experiment As the experiment develops, dead bodies are used which are seen encased in elaborate suits and helmets; an unsuspecting woman stumbles on the bodies, which terrify her and she dies off-screen. There are no gruesome details in the images of the bodies or the deaths. A ghostly apparition appears during a séance, but is revealed to have been faked.
additional issues
There are references to grave-robbing and making contact with the dead. There are scenes in which characters smoke, which reflect the historical period in which the film was made.
violence
A man is grabbed by the throat and knocked unconscious in undetailed fashion.
threat and horror
A man convulses and then collapses as electricity goes through his body during a scientific experiment; a woman dies in similar manner in another experiment As the experiment develops, dead bodies are used which are seen encased in elaborate suits and helmets; an unsuspecting woman stumbles on the bodies, which terrify her and she dies off-screen. There are no gruesome details in the images of the bodies or the deaths. A ghostly apparition appears during a séance, but is revealed to have been faked.
additional issues
There are references to grave-robbing and making contact with the dead. There are scenes in which characters smoke, which reflect the historical period in which the film was made.
Director(s)Edward Dmytryk
Production year1941
Genre(s)Drama, Horror
Approx. running minutes64m
CastBoris Karloff, Anne Revere, Amanda Duff, Richard Fiske, Ralph Penney, Dorothy Adams, Walter Baldwin, Kenneth MacDonald, Shirley Warde, Ernie Adams, Edward Dmytryk, Robert Hardy Andrews, Milton Gunzburg, William Sloane, Allen G. Siegler, Al Clark
Classified Date:
30/05/1941
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Columbia Picture Corp. Ltd
mild threat, violence
Classified Date:
09/04/2021
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Eureka Entertainment Ltd
violence
A man is grabbed by the throat and knocked unconscious in undetailed fashion.
threat and horror
A man convulses and then collapses as electricity goes through his body during a scientific experiment; a woman dies in similar manner in another experiment As the experiment develops, dead bodies are used which are seen encased in elaborate suits and helmets; an unsuspecting woman stumbles on the bodies, which terrify her and she dies off-screen. There are no gruesome details in the images of the bodies or the deaths. A ghostly apparition appears during a séance, but is revealed to have been faked.
additional issues
There are references to grave-robbing and making contact with the dead. There are scenes in which characters smoke, which reflect the historical period in which the film was made.
