Underplayed Gems
The whole movie catalogue

Films and series, searchable by what they are

← Back to the shop

Spook Busters (1946)

Spook Busters poster
Directed by
William Beaudine
Genre
comedy horror
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 08m
Rated
NR
Rating
5.5 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A group of pest control workers take a job to clear ghosts from a mansion. They find a mad scientist living there who plans to use them in a brain transplant.

goofyzanylightheartedwhimsicalslapstickspooky-but-funfast-pacedcheerful

What happens

Spook Busters is a 1946 American comedy horror film, directed by William Beaudine and starring the comedy team of The Bowery Boys. It is the fourth film in the series of forty eight. In the film, the Boys are working as pest control agents. They are tasked with removing ghosts from a seemingly abandoned mansion. It is actually inhabited by a mad scientist, who wants to use of the Boys in a brain transplant operation. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

This page is from Underplayed Gems. Not quite it? Tell the Catbot what you feel like watching and it picks from the whole catalogue, or browse by genre, country and year.

Lists: Korean thrillers worth the evening · Anime films beyond Studio Ghibli · Slow films for a rainy night · Horror that unsettles instead of startling · Series you can finish in a weekend · Nordic crime worth the subtitles · Good films that end in under 90 minutes · Documentaries that play like thrillers

Loading movies…

What should I watch?