2hotFeature
one of my absolute favorites!
Brennan Camacho
Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.
Alistair Olson
After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.
utgard14
Corny short film put out by Universal that gently mocks Nosferatu and their own Frankenstein. There's footage from both of those films included. Why Nosferatu instead of Universal's recently-released Dracula, I don't know. They also include some bits from The Cat Creeps (1930), which is now a lost film. That's fun for classic film buffs. There's kind of a Pete Smith vibe about the short but it's not as funny as one of his. I'm sure it was a lot more amusing in 1932 than it is today. To be clear, I'm not saying it's bad. It's a pleasant enough way to spend ten minutes. If you're a fan of classic horror films, you will probably enjoy it more than most. But there's nothing special about it beyond the clips from The Cat Creeps.
Michael_Elliott
Boo (1932) ** 1/2 (out of 4) Mildly entertaining short from Universal shows a man eating lobster, drinking milk and reading Stoker's Dracula before going to bed so that he can have a nightmare. Once the nightmare starts we see him visit various monsters with scenes taking from the movies NOSFERATU, FRANKENSTEIN and THE CAT CREEPS. The scenes are all given comic tones as we get a narrator adding all sorts of attempted jokes including the "look" of Nosferatu. Fans of these classics will certainly enjoy some of the humor here, although the main reason to view this film is for the few clips from THE CAT CREEPS. That film is sadly lost so the footage in this short is all there is to see. Considering this is a Universal film, I'm really not sure why they'd use clips from NOSFERATU instead of their very own Dracula.
arel_1
The main reason this seems so unfunny to many younger viewers is that a lot of the humor was topical, and topical humor becomes unfunny as soon as the topic is no longer "current events"--how funny will "Dubya" jokes seem by around 2084, when they'll be about as old as the jokes in "Boo!"? I'm twenty-some years younger than "Boo!", and the only reason I got most of the topical jokes is that I'm a big fan of 1930s movies thanks to having grown up when TV stations showed movies late at night instead of infomercials (yes, kids, they really used to do that!) You miss a lot of the humor in older movies if you can't time-travel between the ears.
Scars_Remain
I watched this short film on the special features of the Frankesntein legacy collection DVD and found it pretty darn hilarious. It's obviously nothing amazing or to write home about but I think you'll find it pretty entertaining if you're a fan of Nosferatu and Frankenstein. Don't take it too seriously.I thought the narrator was really funny and had some very clever lines. The clips from Frankenstein and Nosferatu are always great but with the commentary put over them, they were hilarious. Check this one out for a good laugh and I think you'll find yourself enjoying it for the most part. Not much else to say.
