Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Roman Sampson One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

JohnHowardReid In my collection, I have an excellent Columbia DVD that features Boris Karloff's worst film, namely "The Boogie Man Will Get You" (1942), a woefully misguided attempt to cash in on the stage success of "Arsenic and Old Lace". The two dotty old ladies are now played by Karloff and Peter Lorre (minus both drag and wit), while Larry Parks makes an absolutely charmless attempt at the Allyn Joslyn (1941 Broadway) - Cary Grant (1944 movie) hero. Karloff himself played the Raymond Massey (featured in the movie) role on the stage, which is here woefully undertaken by hammy Frank Puglia as a deranged human bomb! Instead of lonely old men, the victims are a succession of door-to-door salesmen led by Maxie Rosenbloom, the one player who brings a touch (just a touch, mind you) of the requisite insanity to his performance. All the other players, with the possible exception of the lovely Jeff Donnell (she does her best to spread a little cheer), are so leaden-footed and heavy-handed as to be downright embarrassing.

mark.waltz So new Innkeeper Jeff Donnell must do when she purchases a Revolutionary War era inn from the wacky scientist Boris Karloff who has more cobwebs in his brain than the inn's attic does. Boris is trying to create an army of supermen to battle Hitler and Mussolini, and this leads behind a trail of corpses, so when he gets the opportunity to stop focusing on running the inn and work on his patriotic goal, he takes it on. The local sheriff/D.A./notary public (Peter Lorre) is equally as nutty, keeping a Siamese kitten in his pocket which can smell a corpse in another room. This feline Charlie Chan stumbles upon a body with a knife in it, and the presence of a series of other wackos (macho powder puff salesman Maxie Ronenbloom, housekeeper Maude Eburne and Donnell's paranoid fiancée amongst them) keeps things popping'.What could have been a very enjoyable "B" comedy turns out to be a cheap rip-off of "Arsenic and Old Lace" with Karloff and Lorre taking over the roles of the two old ladies who poisoned their gentlemen callers with elderberry wine. Karloff, who played a villain in that play on Broadway, wasn't able to do the movie, so he got this second feature instead, and while there are some enjoyable moments, it's all pretty silly stuff, a comedy horror spoof which focuses on juvenile style gags for laughs and seems more suited to the likes of Columbia's other comic talents, Joe E. Brown and the Three Stooges. This doesn't make much of an impact in the career of its two horror icon stars, so the result is something you can take or leave, but like certain foods, will leave you hungry for more only a short time later.

bre_anna 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.

dellascott2004 This film was quite enjoyable for what it was. A cockeyed optimist(Miss Jeff Daniels) buys a rundown colonial era inn with high hopes and decides to allow the current inhabitants, among them a scientist working on a device that will help the Allies win the war(Boris Karloff)and an old woman who obsesses about chickens, to stay on. Her bumbling ex-husband has followed her. The scientist is soon joined by the sheriff/coroner/justice of the peace (and purveyor of baldness cures),played by Peter Lorre. The big question is: Is there are or aren't there a room full of corpses in a secret room off the wine cellar? They have been experimenting on travelling salesmen who happen by the house,using the standard bulb- and- helmet type of contraption that should be familiar to moviegoers. Lorre's character packs a huge pistol and keeps a Siamese kitten in his pocket, claiming that "she has a incredible sense for crime and corruption." Good thing.