Vincent Price narrates a kid who ghosts ghosts while Christopher Lee fumes.
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.
Acting
Christopher Lee playing exasperated royalty is chef's kiss.
Production
Faerie Tale Theatre's paper-mache gothic maximalism.
Writing
Frank Zappa as a hunchback named Attila. Enough said.
Director
Graeme Clifford
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was the only Faerie Tale Theatre episode to feature THREE horror icons: Price, Lee, and Zappa (debatably).
Based on a forgotten Grimm tale that was too dark for Disney—Shelley Duvall's entire mission in a nutshell.
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