I remotely recall seeing some if not all of this a kid, but it's now like night and day. Literally.
The Boy Who Cried Werewolf was a perfect movie for a boy my age – I'm guessing I was 4-5 years old when I remember seeing or hearing about this. It's an all-but rated G monster movie – and a werewolf, my favorite kind of monster as a kid – with a super amount of scenes with the creature (something sorely lacking in 90% of all werewolf films.) And it's certainly not for adults.
There are times I laughed out loud at this. From the same clothes the wolf-man wore – and still, no one believe the movie title's statement, to the countless and continual full-moons, to the mask the actor wore that revealed a hairless neck, to the incontinuities and finally to the most distracting part: the movie that takes place mostly at night during those 15 full moons that month, it was shot entirely during the day but the camera tricks made it into "night."
Not much new in this story, just a riff off of the old Boy Who Cried Wolf fable. Man gets bitten by a werewolf in the opening scene, werewolf dies, man turns into werewolf when the moon's full, only child knows it and the town finally believes him. Or is it too late?
It's passable. Like I said, it's a monster movie made for kids, but I'm thinking more like the kids of the 1970s and 1980s. Today, children might laugh as hard as I did at times as much as they've seen. I mean, we even having a real-life monster running for President. Hope he just goes back to being the monster of his haunted towers after November 8th.
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Final thoughts: Day 8 Movie in the Can! I'm watching a NEW-2-ME horror movie every day of October 2016 and this one is such a distant memory of mine. It came out 1973, I was born the year after so if I did see it, it must've been on TV in the late 70s. All the flaws I stated above certainly didn't mean anything to me, if I did actually see it. I mean, I couldn't get enough of the Wolf-Man, especially the kind that turns into a man-wolf, vs. just a regular wolf. Bah! Can't stand those kinds. (The exception to my rule is Jack Nicholson's Wolf where he did turn into an actual wolf. And that's only passable because the movie itself was so damn good. I forgave he wasn't a full-man-beast.)
The Boy Who Cried Werewolf was a perfect movie for a boy my age – I'm guessing I was 4-5 years old when I remember seeing or hearing about this. It's an all-but rated G monster movie – and a werewolf, my favorite kind of monster as a kid – with a super amount of scenes with the creature (something sorely lacking in 90% of all werewolf films.) And it's certainly not for adults.
There are times I laughed out loud at this. From the same clothes the wolf-man wore – and still, no one believe the movie title's statement, to the countless and continual full-moons, to the mask the actor wore that revealed a hairless neck, to the incontinuities and finally to the most distracting part: the movie that takes place mostly at night during those 15 full moons that month, it was shot entirely during the day but the camera tricks made it into "night."
Not much new in this story, just a riff off of the old Boy Who Cried Wolf fable. Man gets bitten by a werewolf in the opening scene, werewolf dies, man turns into werewolf when the moon's full, only child knows it and the town finally believes him. Or is it too late?
It's passable. Like I said, it's a monster movie made for kids, but I'm thinking more like the kids of the 1970s and 1980s. Today, children might laugh as hard as I did at times as much as they've seen. I mean, we even having a real-life monster running for President. Hope he just goes back to being the monster of his haunted towers after November 8th.
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Final thoughts: Day 8 Movie in the Can! I'm watching a NEW-2-ME horror movie every day of October 2016 and this one is such a distant memory of mine. It came out 1973, I was born the year after so if I did see it, it must've been on TV in the late 70s. All the flaws I stated above certainly didn't mean anything to me, if I did actually see it. I mean, I couldn't get enough of the Wolf-Man, especially the kind that turns into a man-wolf, vs. just a regular wolf. Bah! Can't stand those kinds. (The exception to my rule is Jack Nicholson's Wolf where he did turn into an actual wolf. And that's only passable because the movie itself was so damn good. I forgave he wasn't a full-man-beast.)