The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers

Sep 17, 1984

0h 52m

★ 6.5

Overview

An intelligent, fearless boy living in a superstitious Transylvanian village goes out into the world to figure out what everyone else is afraid of, "the shivers." A king hires him to rid his castle of ghosts and evil spirits, expecting him to die like all who have tried before him, but the boy is more fearless than he could have known.

Genres

Horror

Fantasy

Family

TV Movie

Production Companies

Platypus Productions

Gaylord Productions

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Cast

Martin

Peter MacNicol

King Vladimir V

Christopher Lee

Princess Amanda

Dana Hill

Zandor, the Inkeeper

David Warner

Attila

Frank Zappa

Narrator (voice)

Vincent Price

Father

Jeff Corey

Sexton / Deacon

Jack Riley

Older Brother

Gary Springer

Headless Man

Gary Schwartz

Gargoyle / Horrible Man #1

David McCharen

Horrible Man #2

Mitchel Evans

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