Today’s horror on the lens is a short horror comedy from 1942.  In The Boogie Man Will Get You, Winnie Slade (Miss Jeff Donnell) buys an old house from Prof. Billings (Boris Karloff) with plans to covert it into a hotel.  However, one of the conditions of the sale is that Prof. Billings and his servants be allowed to live on the property.  What Winnie doesn’t know is that Prof. Billings had been conducting experiments on traveling salesman.  He hopes to turn them into supermen who, much like Captain America, can then be sent overseas to fight the Nazis.  However, his experiments have yet to be successful and have mostly just resulted into a lot of salesman being buried out in the rose garden.

However, things start to look up for Prof. Billings when he meets Dr. Lorencz (Peter Lorre), who is not only a doctor but also a mayor, sheriff, and dog catcher.  Seriously, Dr. Lorencz can do it all!

The Boogie Man Will Get You is a fun little time capsule of the time in which it was made.  For horror fans, it is mostly interesting because it features both Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre.  Both Karloff and Lorre appear to be having a lot of fun parodying their usual screen images.

Enjoy!