Supernatural (1933)

After her brother (Lyman Williams) dies, a young woman (Carole Lombard) seeks the counsel of a spiritualist (Alan Dinehart). A woman (Vivienne Osborne) is executed for the murder of her three lovers. It won't be long before these two seemingly separate incidents connect with each other. Victor Halperin directed the cult horror film WHITE ZOMBIE the year before and SUPERNATURAL was the film that followed. Lombard was not yet the popular screwball comedienne she is best known for. That would come the following year with TWENTIETH CENTURY. Here some forty years before THE EXORCIST, Lombard is possessed but there are no special effects or spinning heads. Lombard accomplishes it entirely by her acting, body language and vocal intonation. It's rather slow moving but it's very brief, just a little over an hour long. It may creak a bit but I found it highly watchable, more for Lombard than anything else. With Randolph Scott, H.B. Warner, William Farnum and Beryl Mercer.