The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers
The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers
Release: 1984-09-17
·Runtime: 52m
·★ 6.5
Horror
Fantasy
Family
TV Movie
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Platypus Productions
Gaylord Productions
Cast
Peter MacNicol
as Martin
Christopher Lee
as King Vladimir V
Dana Hill
as Princess Amanda
David Warner
as Zandor, the Inkeeper
Frank Zappa
as Attila
Vincent Price
as Narrator (voice)
Jeff Corey
as Father
Jack Riley
as Sexton / Deacon
Gary Schwartz
as Headless Man
David McCharen
as Gargoyle / Horrible Man #1
Albie Selznick
as The Mums
Regis Parton
as Grim Reaper (uncredited)
Shelley Duvall
as Self - Host (uncredited)
