The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers

The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers

52 mins | Family, Horror, Fantasy, TV Movie | Sept. 17, 1984

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.

The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers

52 mins | Family, Horror, Fantasy, TV Movie | Sept. 17, 1984

The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers
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.
IMDb rating 7.7
Producers Gaylord Productions, Platypus Productions
Original title The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers
Directors Graeme Clifford
Writers Bruce Franklin Singer, Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm

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 Springer

as Older Brother

Gary Schwartz

as Headless Man

David McCharen

as Gargoyle / Horrible Man #1

Mitchel Evans

as Horrible Man #2

Roy Johns

as The Mums

Albie Selznick

as The Mums

Nathan Stein

as The Mums

Shelley Duvall

as Self - Host (uncredited)