The Boogie Man Will Get You is a 1942 comedy horror 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.
The movie was directed by Lew Landers and starred Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre.
This was the final production Karloff made under his contract with Columbia Pictures, and it was filmed in the wake of his success in the Broadway production Arsenic and Old Lace.
As he had done several times previously, Karloff played the part of a “mad scientist”, Professor Billings, who is using the basement of his inn to conduct experiments into using electricity to create a race of super-humans. The inn is bought by a new owner, who is initially unaware of the work Billings is conducting.
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