Film

Movie theaters, reviews and showtimes in New York, plus articles, trailers and more
 

The Boogie Man Will Get You (1942)

Director: Lew Landers

Average user rating
No reviews

Movie review

From Time Out Film Guide

Irresistibly ramshackle horror spoof, with Karloff - abetted by a puckish Lorre, who's the town mayor, police chief, estate agent and everything else - as a mad scientist busily at work in the basement of a house let to newlyweds, trying to help the war effort by creating a superman out of raw materials obtained by bumping off the living. Often crudely farcical but still surprisingly inventive, and the cast (Lorre especially) do wonders.

Author: TM 0000-00-00 00:00:00

Time Out Film Guide

  • Print this page
  • Send to a friend

What do you think?
Post your review now

clear rating
Min 1 star. Zero stars will be treated as unrated.

*mandatory fields


Cast & crew

Director: Lew Landers

Producer: Colbert Clark

Cast: Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Jeff Donnell, Larry Parks, Maxie Rosenbloom, Frank Puglia, Don Beddoe full cast

Genre(s): Horror

Duration: 66 mins


Features

Making a name for himself

Making a name for himself

Sin Nombre's Cary Joji Fukunaga learned his lessons well.

To the letter

Forty years later, Costa-Gavras's Z still brims with fury.

Mind over matter

David Cronenberg reflects on a most bizarre body: his own corpus of work.

Fool's gold

Can an Oscar win lead to a cursed career? Here are five stories of postaward professional meltdowns.

We are the championed

Terrorists and teens abound in this year's "Film Comment Selects."

A history of violence

Matteo Garrone's kaleidoscopic Gomorrah wallops you with Italy's crime crisis.

True romantic

James Gray exchanges urban amorality for amour in Two Lovers.

Playing in the dark

MoMA salutes pianist Stuart Oderman's 50 years as the one-man sound of silents.

Junk bonds

Cast and crew recall the making of the classic NYC drug drama The Panic in Needle Park.