Boo! (1932 film)

Not to be confused with Boo (2023 film).

Boo!
Directed byAlbert DeMond
Written byAlbert DeMond
Produced byAlbert DeMond
StarringMae Clarke
Boris Karloff
Morton Lowry
Max Schreck
CinematographyLynn Harrison
Music byHeinz Roemheld
James Dietrich
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • 1932 (1932)
Running time
10 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Boo! is a 1932 American Pre-Code comedy horror short film by Universal Pictures, directed and written by Albert DeMond.[1] Boo! contains clips of horror films Nosferatu (1922), The Cat Creeps (1930), and Frankenstein (1931), mocking them thoroughly.

Even though this short film was produced by Universal Studios, the makers decided not to use footage from the company's own version of Dracula, but instead to use footage from the German expressionist film Nosferatu directed by F. W. Murnau. Universal had obtained a print of Nosferatu in 1929 during their negotiations for the rights of Dracula for means of studying the film prior to developing their own adaptation, this print initially being one among several confiscated for destruction by the demand of Florence Stoker.[2][3] The only surviving footage of The Cat Creeps—otherwise considered a lost film—are the clips included in Boo!

  1. ^ Cartmell, Deborah (July 30, 2015). Adaptations in the Sound Era: 1927-37. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781623562021.
  2. ^ "Nosferatu and the Public Domain". NerdlyPleasures. July 20, 2016. Retrieved January 21, 2021.
  3. ^ Skal, David J. (2004). Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen, Paperback ed. New York: Faber & Faber; ISBN 0-571-21158-5 (page 158 - 161)