ridiculous rating

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If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

The Boogie Man Will Get You marks the first joint appearance of Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre in the same film. Both certainly could qualify as Boogie Men for the title, both frightened movie goers for generations. This was their first joint screen appearance and the first film where they spoofed their own images.Karloff is a scientist of the mad kind who boards in an old colonial type inn that is run by an equally screwy couple George McKay and Maude Eburne. Lorre is the county sheriff and kind of a Grand Pooh Bah of the region, he's everything else official. When he discovers Karloff is experimenting on making zombie like supermen for the war effort, rather than arrest him Peter's intrigued even though five fatalities might be traced to Karloff's experiments.There's also quarreling couple Jeff Donnell who wants to buy the old inn and Larry Parks her estranged husband who says no. Add to that Maxie Rosenbloom who plays Lorre's amiable lunkhead retainer and you've got a first rate spoof of horror pictures.Certainly Karloff and Lorre showed they had a flair for comedy which would pop up every so often in their credits midst all the fiendish parts they did play. Very funny film, should not be missed by fans of either Karloff or Lorre.

Mainly viewable for fine work by Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre (in charming, comedic-style roles) and an outstanding performance by the talented miss Jeff Donnell. I wish Donnell's work could become more widely known, she was outstanding in a number of obscure and little-seen films like this one. Another good example of her work in a fun role in a relatively obscure b-film is the Tim Holt western "The Stagecoach Kid"."The Boogie Man Will Get You" features a great cast, energetically done and generally well performed and staged in a horror-comedy format popular in the 1940's, but one thing is missing: they forgot to make it funny. It is relentlessly packed with comedy set-ups and bits, none of them funny but some are sort of goofy. Unfortunately, whoever wrote the humor gags really dropped the ball. The high level of talent by everyone involved cannot overcome this one big flaw with the project.Can't recommend that you view this film unless you are a big fan or completist of the actors involved, or you have an hour to kill with lightweight, inoffensive fare.

Lew Landers directs Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre as two daffy doctors. Boris plays Professor Billings, whose scientific experiments have left the cellar filled with the bodies of traveling salesmen, Peter Lorre plays both a quack doctor and the sheriff, determined to find out what's going on. A young woman has recently purchased the estate, and agrees to let the current residents stay, even though she wants to make it into a proper hotel! Needless to say, complications ensue... Crazy film is an obvious copy of the far superior "Arsenic and Old Lace", but isn't anywhere near as funny or clever. Some funny bits to be sure, but far too strained to succeed.

A young divorced woman buys a historical tavern owned by a nutty professor (Boris Karloff). The professor remains in the tavern along with his equally nutty old household staff. The professor continues to conduct his experiments upon hapless travelling salesmen. The point of which is to turn these men into "supermen" who will be able to vanquish the enemy (the story is set during WWII). Peter Lorre finds out what is going on, and tells the prof "And to think, I accused you of conducting hair brained experiments!" (paraphrase)Other lines are equally as understatedly funny: Lorre who plays a mayor/doctor/scientist/marriage celebrant/sheriff/loan shark etc etc etc is asked "Doesn't anyone else do anything around here?" "Oh" replies Lorre, "they just vote once a year". This really is a funny movie. All that's missing is Vincent Price and a handsome Hungarian in a vampire cape. That said, it's distinctive wackiness means it's for people who like that sort of thing. I found plenty to laugh and lots to enjoy, I'd recommend this anyone. Peter Lorre is especially good.