Werewolf Wednesday: The Really Annoying Boy Who Cried Werewolf

Another week, another instalment of my Killer Horror Critic column on the history of werewolf cinema. This time, I’m heading to 1973 to meet one of the most annoying protagonists in the genre with The Boy Who Cried Werewolf…

Past instalments:

• Wolfblood (1925)
• Werewolf of London (1935)
• The Wolf Man (1941)
• The Mad Monster (1942)
• The Undying Monster (1942)
• Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
• Return of the Vampire (1943)
• Cry of the Werewolf (1944)
• House of Frankenstein (1944)
• House of Dracula (1945)
• She-Wolf of London (1946)
• Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
• The Werewolf (1956)
• I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)
• Daughter of Dr. Jekyll (1957)
• How to Make a Monster (1958)
• The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)
• Werewolf in a Girls’ Dormitory (1961)
• House on Bare Mountain (1962)
• Face of the Screaming Werewolf (1964)
• Hercules, Prisoner of Evil (1964)
• The Blue Demon (1965)
• Dr Terror’s House of Horrors (1965)
• Mark of the Wolf Man (1968)
• The Maltese Bippy (1969)
• Blood of Dracula’s Castle (1969)
• The Mummy and the Curse of the Jackals (1969)
• Dracula the Dirty Old Man (1969)
• Assignment Terror (1969)
• Cry of the Banshee (1970)
• Fury of the Wolfman (1970)
• The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman (1971)
• Beast of the Yellow Night (1971)
• Werewolves on Wheels (1971)
• The Rats Are Coming! The Werewolves Are Here! (1972)
• Dr. Jekyll and the Wolfman (1972)
•  Moon of the Wolf (1972)