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      Full Moon High

      PG Released Oct 9, 1981 1h 33m Comedy List
      Reviews 38% Audience Score 250+ Ratings During a family vacation to Transylvania, Tony Walker (Adam Arkin) is bitten by a werewolf. As a result, he'll live forever, but is also cursed with incurable wanderlust -- not to mention a wolfish appearance and the urge to bite other people. He drops out of high school shortly after his transformation, but later Tony regrets never playing in the big football game against a hated local rival, so one day he decides to re-enroll. While he makes new friends, his curse leads to major complications. Read More Read Less Watch on Prime Video Stream Now

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      Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Teen Wolf benefits from a more charismatic lead (Michael J. Fox over Adam Arkin, though the latter isn't bad), but Full Moon High offers more laughs -- at least during the first half, after which the nyuks dry up and comic rigor mortis sets in. Rated: 2/4 Aug 30, 2021 Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Cohen's first comedy. Rated: B Sep 18, 2015 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Ricardo d É uma paródia de terror de filmes de lobisomem e até outros sucessos como Psicose. Na época as piadas poderiam até funcionar, mas hoje não tem muita graça. As atuações são interessantes, mas o roteiro é que não ajuda mesmo num bom desenvolvimento. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 04/07/23 Full Review Audience Member Larry Cohen's horror spoof (with particular references to both American Werewolf In London and Good Luck Miss Wyckoff) about a high school football star who is bitten by a werewolf in 1959 and spends the next 21 years trying to figure out how to break the curse, which (this being a high school-set film) means winning the big football game. Typically cheap looking Cohen outing (with especially bad jump cuts between scenes) is still a typically entertaining Cohen outing too thanks to a great cast and enthusiastic performances. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 06/22/18 Full Review Audience Member Once you adjust your expectations, this Teen Wolf precursor is okay for some fun. You have to expect the really corny, over-the-top humour though. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 04/17/18 Full Review Audience Member Words cannot describe this bizarre werewolf movie. It stars Ed McMahon as a womanizing, anti-commi paranoiac (complete with bomb shelter) father of a teenager (Adam Arkin when he actually DID look like a kid) who becomes a werewolf after being not-mauled by what can only be described as a giant Teddy Ruxpin with glowing eyes and pointy ears. Our hero then proceeds to "annoy" the community by biting hot chicks on the ass...and not much more. Pretty much needs to be seen to be believed. It doesn't totally suck, so there's that. XD Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Audience Member Surprisingly good corned teen comedy about Adam Arkin visiting Transylvania with his government spook father, Ed McMahon, and finds himself turned into a werewolf. He does the usual "Teen Wolf" and "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" things like chasing girls and playing football like an animal, but this film was written and directed by auteur Larry Cohen, who regularly inserts interesting political subtexts to his genre films, whether it's a horror flick like "It's Alive" or a blaxploitation film like "Black Ceasar," his films are always a cut above the usual mindless genre dreck. In this film, beyond the surface level comedy, which is quite funny thanks to the talented Arkin, the film, as Cohen describes it, "has some interesting ideas about how life in America has changed sexually and politically since the early sixties. All of Arkin's friends have changed but he hasn't. And whereas he changes into a werewolf all of the time, his friends change into middle aged people while he is gone, with different values and different ideas. They change as much as he does, actually". Cohen didn't make too may comedies, though comic elements are often present in his films, it was interesting to see him do an out and out comedy. And to top it all off, you get Alan Arkin, Adam's dad, playing a monster expert. A must see films for Cohen and Arkin fans and simply an entertaining film for regular film goers. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Larry Cohens ridiculous tribute to werewolf movies. Not as good as teen wolf, or An American Werewolf, or Ginger Snaps, or The Howling. But compared to all the bad werewolf movies ever made this one is the least bad. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis During a family vacation to Transylvania, Tony Walker (Adam Arkin) is bitten by a werewolf. As a result, he'll live forever, but is also cursed with incurable wanderlust -- not to mention a wolfish appearance and the urge to bite other people. He drops out of high school shortly after his transformation, but later Tony regrets never playing in the big football game against a hated local rival, so one day he decides to re-enroll. While he makes new friends, his curse leads to major complications.
      Director
      Larry Cohen
      Screenwriter
      Larry Cohen
      Production Co
      Filmways Pictures, Larco Productions
      Rating
      PG
      Genre
      Comedy
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Oct 9, 1981, Original
      Release Date (Streaming)
      May 16, 2017
      Runtime
      1h 33m
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