Brilliant and touching

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Be warned the Specter is a character that is very dark for a child to watch so don't show them this short. The animation and voice acting are good but the story is just too much WTF did I just watch. In the story, the Specter kills someone by using his dummies against them, controlling a car and ramming it into them and turning money notes into paper cuts. It is an okay short.

As Detective Jim Corrigan investigates a murder, The Spectre delivers horrific justice to the perpetrators. My biggest problem with Spectre is that it was the shortest of the previous short DC Films and to be honest it was also my least favorite one as well i mean i don't know lots of things about this certain character too so that might be the case also i found the whole villain thing lacking and it tried to be a bit of 'Mask of the Phantasm' but overall even if you don't know a lot of things about this character i think that casual viewers won't be disappointed. I give The Spectre a 7.0 out of 10 it was a solid good short film.

This is another of these roughly 11-minute-long animated short films made by Warner Bros that came out 5 years ago. The director is Joaquim Dos Santos and his work here and also in the other showpieces lets me think that it would actually be nice if he got his own feature film at some point. The Spectre is a superhero who is relatively unknown and it would be equally nice if he got his own film at some point, maybe even live action. The story here is about a man who gets killed and The Spectre, who has the ability to breathe life into inanimate objects, takes revenge. First we think, it is because of a thing he has going on with the victim's daughter (voiced by Alyssa Milano), but then things move into another direction. The final plot twist elevates a fairly mediocre film to this point. Good writing here, although I still believe that he solved these cases far too quickly. Maybe one villain in the middle of the film would have been enough and instead some more elaboration on how he found out who was really behind it all. Still, that's just a minor criticism. The animation is pretty good and this is a decent film. I still believe "Jonah Hex" is the best of these, but "The Spectre" is maybe 3rd behind Superman as well, but better than Green Arrow and Catwoman. Recommended.

i really enjoyed this little gem which is included as a bonus on the Justice League:Crisis on Two Earths DVD:it's basically a sort of a film noir type mystery.it's only about 11 minutes or so,but it gives you a brief idea of who The Spectre is,if you're not already familiar with the character.this short film is a good way to introduce the character,and to gauge fan interest,as he is what could be considered a fringe character.i believe the character could probably do justice to a full length feature and hope that DC has that as one of their goals in the future.regardless,i really enjoyed seeing The Spectre on the screen,even briefly.for me,DC Showcase: The Spectre is an 8/10