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)
Featured review
I've just come across Boo as an extra on the DVD of Frankenstein (1931) and, due to the fact I was watching it at well past midnight, I found it as strange as it was funny. It starts off with a bearded man with a strange expression on his face emerging from a jack-in-the-box and holding up the film's title, which is a weirdly disconcerting effect, particularly as I have no idea who this man was. The narration is rather outdated, not so much because it was recorded in 1932, but because of what is said (the reference to woman automobile drivers is ever so slightly sexist), but what I don't get is, while Universal included footage from its movies 'Frankenstein' and 'The Cat Creeps', the Dracula segments actually come from F.W Murnau's 'Nosferatu'. This seems strange, because I would have thought the studio would want to publicise its own, then-recent, Dracula movie (the one with Bela Lugosi). To conclude, Boo is an oddity that you probably won't find yourself watching unless you get the Frankenstein DVD, which you ought to own anyway
- violencegang
- Nov 9, 2004
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- Runtime10 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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