I guess we all have to start somewhere and this is the film that launched Michael Landon. If he hadn't been picked up for Bonanza I Was A Teenage Werewolf might have been the summit of his career.
Actually Landon gives a good performance as a misunderstood youth with issue who apparently has never adjusted to his mother's passing or so we are led to believe. Sadly enough it's wasted in a film that can only be described as sheer claptrap and not even in keeping with Hollywood werewolf tradition.
Landon's behavioral problems cause him to be sent to Dr. Whit Bissell who's supposed to be a behavioral psychologist. Actually he hides it well because he's been looking for a perfect subject for some experiments into regressing man into the primitive. According to him man must regress and then evolution must start again with of course Bissell guiding it in the proper direction. A little scapallomine, a little hypnosis and some secret drug and Landon's a teenage werewolf. Proving that it doesn't take the bite of another werewolf to do the job.
Bissell can't quite hide the embarrassment and he must have cursed his agent for signing him for this role. The rest of the cast looks equally pained and they all must have envied Landon because at least for half the movie he's got werewolf makeup on.
Actually Landon gives a good performance as a misunderstood youth with issue who apparently has never adjusted to his mother's passing or so we are led to believe. Sadly enough it's wasted in a film that can only be described as sheer claptrap and not even in keeping with Hollywood werewolf tradition.
Landon's behavioral problems cause him to be sent to Dr. Whit Bissell who's supposed to be a behavioral psychologist. Actually he hides it well because he's been looking for a perfect subject for some experiments into regressing man into the primitive. According to him man must regress and then evolution must start again with of course Bissell guiding it in the proper direction. A little scapallomine, a little hypnosis and some secret drug and Landon's a teenage werewolf. Proving that it doesn't take the bite of another werewolf to do the job.
Bissell can't quite hide the embarrassment and he must have cursed his agent for signing him for this role. The rest of the cast looks equally pained and they all must have envied Landon because at least for half the movie he's got werewolf makeup on.