Boo (1932)

Director:

Albert DeMond

Writer:

Albert DeMond (dialogue)

Release Date:

1 December 1932 (USA)

Genre:

Short | Comedy | Horror

Plot:

A wisecracking narrator mocks footage featuring Frankenstein's monster and Count Dracula. |

Plot Keywords:

Frankenstein's Monster | Monster | Dracula | Frankenstein | Film History

Cast

Morton Lowry	...	Man reading 'Dracula'
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
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	...	Dracula-Nosferatu (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)

Directed by
Albert DeMond

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Albert DeMond		dialogue

Produced by
Albert DeMond	....	producer

Film Editing by
Lynn Harrison

Music Department
James Dietrich	....	composer: stock music (uncredited)
Heinz Roemheld	....	composer: stock music (uncredited)

Other crew
Albert DeMond	....	supervisor
Carl Laemmle	....	presenter

Production Companies

• Universal Pictures

Distributors

• Universal Pictures (1932) (USA) (theatrical)
• Universal Studios Home Video (2004) (Netherlands) (DVD)

Also Known As:

Runtime:

10 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Certification:

Netherlands:16 (DVD rating)

Company:

Universal Pictures

Trivia:

Since The Cat Creeps (1930) is a lost film, the footage used in "Boo" is the only material from it known to exist.

Quotes:

Narrator:Why it's Dracula, the guy who invented necking.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Top 10 Lost Horror Films (2010) (V)

Early, light-headed spoof...

Boo! comes as a nice little extra feature on the Frankenstein-DVD. It's definitely worth a watch as it may be one of the very first spoofs ever made. A voice-over guides footage from "Frankenstein", "Nosferatu" and some of "The Cat Creeps". Separate scary parts from both movies are perfectly edited into each other and the narrator's figurative language mostly results in subtle chuckling. Check it out when you're browsing through the DVD-extra's! It won't take much of your precious time (Boo! only lasts 10 minutes) and it's most certainly make you laugh! Much funnier than later comedies and horror spoofs. This little short is thought up by Albert DeMond who wrote an endless amount of screenplays. Merely comedy and drama.