THE DEVIL COMMANDS

THE DEVIL COMMANDS. USA: Columbia, 1941. Boris Karloff, star.

A brainwave machine attached to human corpses mediates a path to the afterlife—for a superimposition of the mechanical upon the decomposing organic, as a way to the spiritual. Discussed in Wikipedia, q.v.[1]

(NOTE: Erlich was unable to find it attested to on the Internet but has heard the saying, "Whom the Devil commands must obey," and assumes that to be one possible source of the title.)