The Boogie Man Will Get You (1942)

Directed by

Lew Landers

Genre

comedy horror

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 06m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 31 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A new owner buys an old inn, not knowing the basement is a mad scientist's lab. The scientist tries to create superhumans with electricity, leading to comic chaos.

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What happens

The Boogie Man Will Get You is a 1942 American comedy horror film directed by Lew Landers and starring Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre. It was the final film Karloff made under his contract with Columbia Pictures, and it was filmed in the wake of his success in the 1941 Broadway production Arsenic and Old Lace. As he had done several times previously, Karloff played the part of a "mad scientist", Professor Billings, who is using the basement of his inn to conduct experiments using electricity to create a race of superhumans. The inn is bought by a new owner, who is initially unaware of the work Billings is conducting. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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