 Hello and welcome to another edition of Frightfully Forgotten's Trash or Treasure. I'm the Trash. I'm the Treasure. And today we're going to be covering 1973's The Boy Who Cried Werewolf, which is a Patreon request from Charles Marsh. But before we get going, what are we drinking? We're drinking near-dark, Czech-dark lager. Finger-lickin' good! This movie was directed by Nathan Huron. He did the attack of the 50-foot woman. This movie stars Curran Matthews and he was in the 7th voyage of Sinbad. This movie also stars Elaine Dury, as well as Robert J. Wilk, who is in tons of things. He's basically like a western mainstay. And Scott Seely is also in this, who has kind of done fuck all. So the movie starts out with this car sort of meandering through the hills. There's a werewolf following the car. He's like in the forest. He can introduce to Robert and his son Richie. Look for Richie! You haven't seen Richie! And they're on their way to their cabin to spend, I guess, the weekend. They want to take a long walk through the woods. This werewolf goes and attacks them and starts fighting with the dad, pushes the kid out of the way, and the dad's all rolling around in the dirt and everything. And right away he gets bit in the arm by the werewolf. The dad kind of pushes the werewolf away and the werewolf falls off his cliff and on to like these fence posts, impales him. They call the cops. Cops. Cops. They got the cops. Richie is telling them. And he's like, no, this was a werewolf. This was a monster. I'm telling you. They're like, yeah, yeah, yeah. They go to look at the body and it's a man. Okay, well it just makes the kid look like a fucking asshole then. So the dad takes the kid home back to the mother's house. The kid starts telling the mother that there was a werewolf too. He's preaching the same thing. Just chalking it up to the kid being imaginative and all this trauma and stress of what happened. They take the kid to the psychiatrist and the psychiatrist kind of says the same thing. Maybe it's a good idea that they go back to the scene of where it happened so it can be kind of therapeutic and help them through all of this. Robert takes Richie back to the cabin because the psychiatrist says this is a good idea. Of course it's a full moon that night. Robert turns into a werewolf of course looking into a mirror as they always do. Very slow and... Yeah, and transforms. He turns into a werewolf and basically takes off and goes on a big rampage. He's running around the highway and these cars get into a big accident and he's all pulling the guys out and eating them. Does one car fall off a cliff? Like everything is falling off cliffs in this movie. Everything falls off a cliff at some point. Richie sees his dad in werewolf form go back to the cabin and bury something underneath the dirt in this kind of shed area. The cops show up at the cabin saying, have you seen anything like an animal or anything? There's all these people that have got massacred and the guy's head is missing. Massacre. Massacre. Covered in blood from head to his wrestling boots. This guy is going to die. Why'd you cut that guy up so bad for? Needed my heat. Give my heat baby. I had to give my heat. Of course the dad says I didn't see anything and Richie kind of covers for his dad and says no I didn't see anything either. They go back to town again and Robert and his ex-wife kind of start hitting it off a little bit. He was very pushy in the beginning. She was pushing back and now she's kind of like ahhh maybe you know she kind of wants that wolf wang maybe I don't know. She brought some lingerie too and everything. She's ready to kind of consider getting back with him so what better thing to do? Go back to the cabin again. On the way to the cabin they come across with this group of Jesus hippies phrasing and they kind of stop to check it out because let's look at these people. Let's just watch them like they're fucking entertainment. Yeah he's like well we just stop to watch like what the fuck would you do that? So they try getting Robert and his family in this Jesus circle and some invisible force all stops him he can't get in there's all this glass you can see he's pressed on this glass so they go back to the cabin and night time falls again and of course it's a full moon again. Yeah like what kind of fucking earth cycle are they in? He's always full moons constantly. A typical werewolf movie right? The full moons is whenever. He turns into a wolf again but now his whole family is there for the slaughter. There's also the sheriff with a whole bunch of townsfolk with weapons and guns on the hunt for this animal that's been killing people and that's we're gonna end the plot if you want to see how the boy who cried werewolf ends watch the movie but is a trash or treasure. Well that'll start us off with the treasure. The characters for this movie are are not too bad you know they're all pretty distinct you have the dad who's a typical dad bit of an asshole yeah he's got something against women's live the kids not too bad too he's a typical kid right and it's obvious for the type of movie that it is that he is he's literally crying werewolf yeah nobody of course believes him so the movie does live up to his name that's right quite a bit his kid won't shut the fuck up about this werewolf was like oh Christ we know the humor for this movie actually is not bad and a lot of it comes from that hippie comedy yeah which is I've quite entertaining perhaps the most entertaining part of this movie is that hippie comedy. The acting isn't too bad either really kid maybe is a tad sub par I guess but it's not enough to ruin the movie or really set anything back the sheriff is great he's really good yeah he's really good mom and the dad who pretty much carry the whole movie are pretty decent the werewolf design is interesting because it looks quite realistic like the hair looks like real hair the snout looks real like it's a realistic werewolf design it doesn't look cheesy or like tacky this is just tacky stuff it looks really legit yeah looks good but that leads us to the trash about this movie and it's also the werewolf design because it just doesn't look menacing enough yeah or scary enough yeah he's too clean cut nicely combed hair looks like a dog do you just want to sit on your lap and pet a pet werewolf yeah like it looks like a pet werewolf also what he does too is pretty shitty like he just for the most party just kind of stands there they show him too much yeah they show him way too much and for the most part like werewolf doesn't really do too much no like there's a lot of kills in this movie but you don't see any of them like a nice give me a bit of fucking gore or something like the guy tears his people pieces you don't see it and sometimes hearing about it's enough but not in this movie yeah like I would have liked to have seen like a throat get ripped out or something or some fake head like when you rip the guys head off like show like it could be tacky and shitty I don't care just rip that head off baby give my heat baby when a movie is kind of leaning on the cheesy side give me as much gore as you can the pacing is all fucked up it starts off with a bang like you're like oh werewolf right off the bat the dad's fighting this werewolf okay that's cool you know then he gets bit gets bit right away it's like oh it's action-packed and then it just kind of turns into this drama almost about this kid seeing a psychiatrist and after that first encounter with the werewolf in the first 10 minutes yeah just gets kind of boring yeah and see that's the problem the they let it all loose right away up here the blue the load yeah and they had nowhere to go but down you know and they didn't have enough ideas or enough gore or anything to keep the movie going the music kind of sucks too like it starts off all this pleasant music with the driving through the woods is like there's no sense of dread yeah no sense of fun either it's just this pleasant music throughout the whole movie it's like it doesn't suit the movie at all it's like soap opera music almost all of the night shots for this too well all of the shots period are just kind of subpar but the night shots especially are clearly during the day they're all day yeah you can see the blue sky behind the trees and everything it's like they just shot it during the day and like but fuck underexposed the film to make it look like it's dark but you can still see it's daylight yeah yeah and I can see maybe where they you could try and cover that up you know what the it's a full moon so it's bright yes but the but it's too bright it's too loose yeah it's not like it's a dark gray sky or anything like a full moon like it was there were too cheap to like buy lights and shoot at night like why not just shoot at night yeah I don't fucking blue lights like everyone else does maybe they couldn't get the kid or something to go to bed it's super feels like a made for TV it's like they blew their budget on the wolf design which looks good but not scary enough and that they couldn't had no money to do anything else besides drive a couple of cars off cliffs dialogue for this movie too is it's not very inventive at all it's pretty slow going and it doesn't flesh out the characters enough really to make you want to care that much dialogue for especially like some of the secondary characters like that couple in the camper oh just got off dialogue it's like fuck no one talks like this you want them to die I'm thirsty here's some coffee for you and some milk for me who what the fuck talks like that in the morning I don't here's a tea for me and a juice for you I'm gonna say these here you go yeah drink and if it's night time I'm getting a fucking beer I'm not getting a goddamn coffee milk that shit so the boy who cried werewolf trash or treasure it's trash yeah for me it's trash too it's not a complete piece of shit but it's not good enough to be treasure yeah yeah it's a kind of a thin line yeah does do some neat things I kind of like the whole idea the dynamic of the characters and there's this dad who's becoming a werewolf and the only the kid knows yeah kind of a neat story it's just not played out well the production values and strong enough to really sort of drive all these messages home and the ending to it's like your typical werewolf ending is like okay they fucking shoot him down he turns back no human and they're all oh it's him we eat the kid was right you know it's like your typical werewolf ending yeah there's nothing really special about the movie which is too bad because they took a werewolf idea and tried to do something neat with it being like this almost family dynamic he's just a working man he's got a kid and he's a werewolf I would like to have seen this go the more comedic route yeah they didn't push the comedy nearly as much as they should have yeah exactly like maybe they could have had him turn into the werewolf then he's all sitting down at the dinner table yeah eating the paper shit like that you know yeah that would have been better like they relied way too much on the Jesus cult for the humor when they should have put the humor throughout the whole movie yeah not just the Jesus cult exactly for me it boils down to would I watch this movie again probably not would I recommend it to somebody no probably not so then it has to be trash yeah you want a good werewolf comedy watch this one it's a much better werewolf comedy my mom is a werewolf that's kind of what this movie should have been except my dad's a werewolf my shitty chauvinistic dad is a werewolf and until next time keep drinking