The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (1973)

Directed by

Nathan Juran

Genre

werewolf film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 34m

Rated

PG

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 24 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A boy visits his father at a remote cabin. A werewolf attacks the father, who then becomes a werewolf himself. The boy keeps trying to warn people, but nobody believes him.

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What happens

The Boy Who Cried Werewolf is a 1973 Technicolor horror film directed by Nathan H. Juran. The film stars Kerwin Mathews in the final film he and Juran made after their earlier work, which included The 7th Voyage of Sinbad. In this thriller, a boy visits his father in a secluded cabin; the father is attacked by a werewolf and then becomes one himself. The boy constantly tries to tell others, but no one will believe him. Juran came out of retirement to make the film as a favour to producer Aaron Rosenberg. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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