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.
** 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.