The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers

6.5 1984 52 min
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 sp…

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Director
Graeme Clifford
Writer
Bruce Franklin Singer

Cast

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Peter MacNicol Martin
Christopher Lee King Vladimir V
Dana Hill Princess Amanda
David Warner Zandor, the Inkeeper
Frank Zappa Attila
Vincent Price Narrator (voice)
Jeff Corey Father
Jack Riley Sexton / Deacon
Gary Springer Older Brother
Gary Schwartz Headless Man
David McCharen Gargoyle / Horrible Man #1
Mitchel Evans Horrible Man #2
Roy Johns The Mums
Albie Selznick The Mums
Nathan Stein The Mums
Regis Parton Grim Reaper (uncredited)
Shelley Duvall Self - Host (uncredited)

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