I Was a Teenage Werewolf

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Blu B It's alright for what it is. It's like someone took the idea of Frankenstein and mixed it with The Wolfman. It's just alright though. The main character is like a whiny James Dean/Hayden Christensen and really isn't that likeable at all. Everyone in this save for Whit is wooden, generic, and forgettable. The production value is very low budget and cheap. It's never moody or atmospheric except in spurts and the directin is pretty basic stuff. There is barely any soundtrack in this also. This feels like a teenage drama in the first half and a Horror flick in the second which sort of works. It makes perfect sense and all but if you've seen the flicks it's copying than your not missing anything really. Skip This. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 10/31/24 Full Review Liam D Yeah it's stupid, yes it's cheesy and yep it's a B Movie but that type of Campy filmmaking I do enjoy from time to time Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 12/31/22 Full Review Taylor L "If you're gonna play the bongos all night, who am I going to dance with?" The most enduring legacy of I Was a Teenage Werewolf is likely the role that it played in launching the career of Michael Landon, who would largely fall out of favor on the silver screen but became a standard fixture on the TV circuit with major recurring roles on long-running shows, particularly Bonanza and Little House on the Prairie. While a success in its day for its supposed 'brutality' in combining a monster mythos with a high school kid (an overlap that apparently touched a midcentury nerve), this film from B-movie legend Herman Cohen (as both writer and producer) may have helped to popularize the teen horror genre that would really hit its stride decades later, but is really an exercise in camp for modern audiences with its rough supporting performances and attempts at suspenseful dialogue. Good for a laugh, mostly at what passed for horror in 1957, but also featuring some genuinely creative lighting and framing from editor-turned-director Gene Fowler Jr. It's tough to think of a film with this kind of title as anything other than a bit of a joke; this pattern of sensationalist movie title comes up again and again as a satire of the era in later films, poking fun at writing teams looking to hook audiences without a lot of substance to back up their initial premise. (2/5) Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 09/08/22 Full Review andy f To it's credit it takes itself seriously. What's unforgiveable is the mind numbing slow pace! Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Joel C Would have been a cool drive-in film for high school kids. The James Dean type lead character is a misunderstood youth, aren't they all lol, who accepts to being a test subject for a professor, in turn he'll get better grades. Only, the professor wants to draw out his primitive state which results in him changing into a werewolf and terrorising the community. The film is B-grade but it has a good basis for future horror films. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 05/11/21 Full Review bill t Fun for what it is, aka Michael Landon's first movie, a movie with a title thought of first, then the screenplay, etc. Landon is a misunderstood and violent teen who begrudgingly gets help. Problem is, his doctor is a mad kook who has a serum who makes Landon into.. yes, a teen werewolf! Predictable 50s monster melee ensues. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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