The Boy Who Cried Werewolf

"The Boy Who Cried Werewolf" (1973) (Nathan Juran) This 1973 fantastically titled rarity might just do for werewolves what Joseph Minion’s “Vampire’s Kiss” (1989) did for vampires! Inside a seemingly ordinary narrative framework of a novel high-concept genre plot set-up, a strange, escalating, darkly comic tragedy takes off wild and free. And while the overall broad plotting, structure and narrative purpose might seem unremarkable and formulaic, the film’s real substance transcends into another obscure dimension entirely, remaining bizarrely unpredictable and strangely off-the-rails within the details, dialogue, motivations and momentums of each scene. Minion would be proud! Although by all investigative accounts into the careers of the parties responsible, “The Boy Who Cried Werewolf” seems to be an intangibly warped oddity (of my favorite order) born more from happenstance rather than deliberate subversion (as I have always attested too in Minion’s case). It seems that Australian born architect turned art director turned director Nathan Juran (1907-2002) (who after “prestigious” art director work for films like “Body And Soul” (1947) and “How Green Was My Valley” (1941) and a lif

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