The Boogie Man Will Get You
1942 film by Lew Landers
The Boogie Man Will Get You is a 1942 film about a young divorcee who tries to convert a historic house into a hotel despite its oddball inhabitants and dead bodies in the cellar.
- Directed by Lew Landers. Written by Edwin Blum.
From HORROR To HOWLS...FROM MAYHEM TO MERRIMENT! (taglines)
Prof. Nathaniel Billings
edit- Amelia, this riffraff, as you call him, is really the salt of the earth. All he needs is to be iodized.
Dr. Lorencz
edit- Do you imagine I could take advantage, exploit, capitalize on a great scientific discovery? Cheat millions of people all the world over? Profane my profession? Suppose I make a few dollars, don't you think I wouldn't put it right back into science?
- If he is a choreographer, then I am Pavlova.
- [about Bill Leyden] If the army didn't need him, I would have committed him to the squirrel pen at Idlewild Sanitarium, so help me!
- [Signing the mortgage] "Contractum sanctum putnam," which means done and dished up!
- It isn't in Brampton's room. That proves he did it! He's covering up!
Other
edit- Silvio, the Human Bomb: In this sack, I have forty kilos of dynamite, and I don't mean ravioli!
Dialogue
edit- Dr. Lorencz: And if you ever need anything, like medical attention, or fire insurance, or a marriage performed, or a loan, perhaps? I should be delighted to oblige.
- Winnie Slade: Doesn't anybody else do anything in Jinxville?
- Dr. Lorencz: Oh, they... they vote once a year.
- Prof. Nathaniel Billings: I have very good news for you, Doctor!
- Dr. Lorenz: Really?
- Prof. Nathaniel Billings: Now, guess what!
- Dr. Lorenz: [Annoyed] I don't know!
- Prof. Nathaniel Billings: Go ahead - guess.
- Dr. Lorenz: [Angrily] D-Do I look like a quiz kid?
- Amelia Jones: Everybody in this town knows you made your fortune on snake oil hair restorer.
- Dr. Lorenz: Well, what's wrong with that? Where's the hair follicle that can resist 2000 international units of Vitamin A? Where is it?
- Prof. Nathaniel Billings: [Bending over and pointing to a spot on top of his head] Right here.
- Dr. Lorenz: [Examining it] Hmmm! Oh, hardening of the skull!
- Bill Leyden: They murdered him! Just like they murdered the other one!
- Prof. Nathaniel Billings: Please! Please! The word is, "martyrized."
- Winnie Slade: [about Professor Billings] Isn't he a dear?
- Amelia Jones: Even when he was a baby, he never cried - not even when we dropped him.
Taglines
edit- IT'S A CHILLER-DILLER OF A MAYHEM-AND-MERRIMENT SHOW!
- From HORROR To HOWLS...FROM MAYHEM TO MERRIMENT!
- There's fun in this new type of horror picture...fun for everybody, and everybody loads of fun!
- You'll be tickled to death over this gay chiller diller!
Cast
edit- Boris Karloff — Prof. Nathaniel Billings
- Peter Lorre — Dr. Lorencz
- Maxie Rosenbloom — Maxie
- Larry Parks — Bill Layden
- Miss Jeff Donnell — Winnie Slade
