I remember watching this movie as a child. I’m not sure if it’s a movie or a short story within a stream of short films. I believe the main character was a young boy who either was sent to live on a farm with an old couple or moved. He has these nightmares about catching animals and killing or eating them. He catches his care givers doing strange things throughout the film but the parts that stuck out to me were the dreams he kept having and a scene close to the end where his care givers rip the heads off of chickens and lick the blood, they give it to him and he eats the chicken and then turns into a werewolf. Up until then you don’t even know he’s a werewolf.
PLEASE tell me this isn’t something I dreamt up as a child. I’ve been looking for the name of this film for years. Every few years or so I think about it and try to find it online and of course, fail.
It sounds like The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)
It isn’t this one. It was a movie with very few dialogue. I think it took place on a farm too
Possibly Tales from the Crypt s2e18 – The Secret
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0716895/
This was good but it’s not the one I’m looking for. Thank you for this though!
“Freakshow” (1995)?
It’s a horror anthology starring Gunnar Hansen as a freakshow barker. I found it on YouTube and posted it below. The 2nd story is the one you remember, I think, and it starts about 18 minutes in.
https://youtu.be/aX0zG5A4Odo