To me, this film is completely undeserving of all the hatred it is garnering here at the IMDb. Sure it can come off as dull and sluggish, as most films from this era will, but I found it entertaining, digging beneath the blatant racism toward black people that exists throughout virtually the entire film.
Some reviewers are complaining about white people "without make-up" playing black actors. I didn't notice anything of the type going on here, as I could easily distinguish between the black actors and the white actors. There was perhaps one fair-skinned black actor who some idiots might have mistaken for a white man. It was an uncommon thing to have mixed race pictures in 1934, and the other film contained on the sh**ty Alpha Video DVD 'The Devil's Daughter' had an entirely black cast, according to another reviewer. I cannot really be sure which type of "race picture" this is supposed to be, as it seems to liberally switch back and forth between the black and white viewpoints, but I am thinking that it was made at the time for a mainly white audience, which is ironic because another reviewer noted that it was mostly played for blacks.
The surviving copy that managed to make it onto that DVD and I think probably the same version existing over at the Internet Archive appears to be about ten minutes incomplete, which to me is a shame as I would have liked some closure on certain scenes which just seem to end very abruptly, like how the film itself does.
I haven't seem 'White Zombie' so this film is incomparable to me, but to me, 'Chloe, Love Is Calling You' seems to be set apart from what was standard 1930's style horror films. I found the film to be at times creepy and atmospheric, which I think is one of the things I liked best. Georgette Harvey is really the best thing about this entire picture, and appears very well-suited to play the voodoo priestess Mandy. Those interested in voodoo and the occult in early cinema will probably be the ones to find the most enjoyment out of this one, and while definitely not the best film to come out of it's era, I definitely feel this is a highly underrated and lost gem. Not many people I would recommend this to, but there's gotta be someone out there who can appreciate this film, which was at the time (unintentionally) vile, blatantly racist, and (for it's time) extremely violent. Recommended.
CHLOE, LOVE IS CALLING YOU -----6/10
Some reviewers are complaining about white people "without make-up" playing black actors. I didn't notice anything of the type going on here, as I could easily distinguish between the black actors and the white actors. There was perhaps one fair-skinned black actor who some idiots might have mistaken for a white man. It was an uncommon thing to have mixed race pictures in 1934, and the other film contained on the sh**ty Alpha Video DVD 'The Devil's Daughter' had an entirely black cast, according to another reviewer. I cannot really be sure which type of "race picture" this is supposed to be, as it seems to liberally switch back and forth between the black and white viewpoints, but I am thinking that it was made at the time for a mainly white audience, which is ironic because another reviewer noted that it was mostly played for blacks.
The surviving copy that managed to make it onto that DVD and I think probably the same version existing over at the Internet Archive appears to be about ten minutes incomplete, which to me is a shame as I would have liked some closure on certain scenes which just seem to end very abruptly, like how the film itself does.
I haven't seem 'White Zombie' so this film is incomparable to me, but to me, 'Chloe, Love Is Calling You' seems to be set apart from what was standard 1930's style horror films. I found the film to be at times creepy and atmospheric, which I think is one of the things I liked best. Georgette Harvey is really the best thing about this entire picture, and appears very well-suited to play the voodoo priestess Mandy. Those interested in voodoo and the occult in early cinema will probably be the ones to find the most enjoyment out of this one, and while definitely not the best film to come out of it's era, I definitely feel this is a highly underrated and lost gem. Not many people I would recommend this to, but there's gotta be someone out there who can appreciate this film, which was at the time (unintentionally) vile, blatantly racist, and (for it's time) extremely violent. Recommended.
CHLOE, LOVE IS CALLING YOU -----6/10