A wisecracking narrator mocks footage featuring Frankenstein's monster and Count Dracula.A wisecracking narrator mocks footage featuring Frankenstein's monster and Count Dracula.A wisecracking narrator mocks footage featuring Frankenstein's monster and Count Dracula.
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Mae Clarke
- Elizabeth (edited from "Frankenstein")
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Lawrence Grant
- Crosby (edited from "The Cat Creeps")
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Raymond Hackett
- Paul (edited from "The Cat Creeps")
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Boris Karloff
- Frankenstein's Monster (edited from "Frankenstein")
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Elizabeth Patterson
- Susan (edited from "The Cat Creeps")
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Max Schreck
- Count Orlok (edited from 'Nosferatu')
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Helen Twelvetrees
- Annabelle West (edited from "The Cat Creeps")
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Edward Van Sloan
- Dr. Waldman (edited from "Frankenstein")
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Gustav von Wangenheim
- Hutter (edited from "Nosferatu")
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Albert DeMond(uncredited)
- Writer
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaSince The Cat Creeps (1930) is a lost film, the footage used in "Boo" is the only material from it known to exist.
- Quotes
Narrator: With times as tough as they are we present our formula for the cheapest form of amusement: nightmares. First you eat a real lobster, not the kind they send to congress.
- Crazy creditsCarl Laemmle presents A Universal Brevity
- ConnectionsEdited from Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922)
Featured review
So bad it's good!
To say Boo! is an oddity is an understatement in itself. This is a perfect example of something that is so bad it is good as it pokes fun at Frankenstein and Dracula(Nosferatu). It is true that Boo! is cheesy and lame somewhat, the pacing is rather rushed, the editing dated and the reference to woman automobile drivers rather on the sexist side, not to mention the enthusiastic if rather overdone narration. Nonetheless, it is a curious watch for the final line "you can milk a cow but a lobster is very ticklish", the so-bad-it-was-funny type of jokes and the corny haunting music. Plus it was nice to see archive footage of Frankenstein(hooray for Karloff!) and Nosferatu. Overall, by all means worth watching, but not something I would recommend highly. 5/10 Bethany Cox
- TheLittleSongbird
- Mar 16, 2010
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- Runtime10 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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