I Was a Teenage Werewolf [VHS]

I Was a Teenage Werewolf [VHS]
by Gene Fowler Jr.

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Actor: Dawn Richard, Michael Landon, Tony Marshall, Whit Bissell, Yvonne Lime
Director: Gene Fowler Jr.
Edition: VHS Tape
Format: NTSC
Release Date: 1993-06-16
Audience Rating: Unrated
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Studio: Sony Pictures

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Movie Review: One of the Most influential independent Horror films ever made!
Summary: 4 Stars

This film is another classic that I haven't seen in awhile,but reviewing it again has not soiled it's reputation.
I Was A Teenage Werewolf(1957) has something of a campy title,but under that title is one of the most well made Monster movies of the 1950s.

A trend is started with this film,the first to properly focus on youth as protagonists in a Horror picture and rely on there problems and frustrations,which this film does better than alot of there contemporaries did.

Taking the legend of the Werewolf,this film changes the concept from legend to science and has the werewolf spring forth as the result of repressed anger and sexual frustration.
Michael Landon is a compelling lead who is alternately sympathetic and frightening as the angry Tony,who seeks psychiatric help from a ego-maniacal doctor in the form of Sci-Fi regular,Whit Bissel,who lets the teenager revert to his animal self through hypnosis!

There are many surprisingly tense moments within the film including a creepy walk through the forest as Tony acquires his first victim and one of the most subtle examples of brooding sexuality in the Horror film,that being the scene where Toby eyes the babe doing gymnastics in the gym and turns into a wolf(literally).
The film's power lies in the theme of adults trying to shape teenagers into what they want them to be,by control and abuse,without aiding a real hand to help and having to suffer the consequences.

The make-up for the werewolf is quite good,and the film despite being firmly set in the 1950s,still resonates with kids today,and still stands today as a great Horror film and one of the best Werewolf films ever made.

Led to follow-ups in the form of I was a Teenage Frankenstein(1958) and Blood of Dracula(1958),which could not begin to approach this original.

It's a real shame there is still no DVD release for this classic.

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Summary of I Was a Teenage Werewolf [VHS]

A troubled teenager seeks help through hypnotherapy, but his evil doctor uses him for regression experiments that transform him into a rampaging werewolf.

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