The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers (1984) [N/A]

Release Date:
September 17, 1984

Original Title:
The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers

Genres:
Family | Fantasy | Horror | TV Movie

Production Companies:
Gaylord Productions
Platypus Productions

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 52

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.

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Art Direction:
Jane Osmann

Assistant Hairstylist:
Claude Díaz

Associate Producer:
Andi Copley

Costume Design:
J. Allen Highfill

Director:
Graeme Clifford

Editor:
Marco Zappia

Executive Producer:
Shelley Duvall

Hair Designer:
Richard Sabre

Lighting Design:
Bill Klages

Makeup Designer:
Sheryl Ptak
Ron Wild

Original Music Composer:
Robert Folk

Producer:
Fred Fuchs
Bridget Terry
Shelley Duvall

Production Design:
Michael Erler

Short Story:
Jacob Grimm
Wilhelm Grimm

Sound:
Ron Cronkhite

Unit Manager:
Claire Barrett Young

Writer:
Bruce Franklin Singer

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