The Boy Who Cried Werewolf

The Boy Who Cried Werewolf

Possible in this day and age? Those who didn't believe... are dead!

197393 min5.8 / 10

A 1970s creature-feature about a boy's desperate struggle to convince adults of a supernatural threat, blending paranoia and family tension with werewolf horror.

Little Richie Bridgestone goes to spend the weekend with his father at his secluded mountain cabin, and witnesses his father being attacked by 'a creature' that the boy recognizes as a werewolf. He tries to convince his mother and his therapist that his father is now a werewolf.

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