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)
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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)
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The main reason this seems so unfunny to many younger viewers is that a lot of the humor was topical, and topical humor becomes unfunny as soon as the topic is no longer "current events"--how funny will "Dubya" jokes seem by around 2084, when they'll be about as old as the jokes in "Boo!"? I'm twenty-some years younger than "Boo!", and the only reason I got most of the topical jokes is that I'm a big fan of 1930s movies thanks to having grown up when TV stations showed movies late at night instead of infomercials (yes, kids, they really used to do that!) You miss a lot of the humor in older movies if you can't time-travel between the ears.
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