This film begins with a hot-tempered teenager named "Tony Rivers" (Michael Langdon) exhausting the patience of everyone around him due to his inability to control his anger and subsequently being referred to a psychologist named "Dr. Alfred Brandon" (Whit Bissell) to work things out. At first, everything seems to be going well with him but what he doesn't know is that Dr. Brandon has an ulterior motive involving a research project which takes priority over everything else-to include the well-being of his patient. To that effect, he has been injecting Tony with an experimental drug while under hypnosis which is designed to bring out the most primal forces within him. What Dr. Brandon doesn't realize, however, is that by doing so he has created a werewolf which he is unable to control and soon begins to terrorize the entire community. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this was a fairly standard horror movie for this particular time period and is quite dated as a result. One other item worth mentioning is the fact that, because of the manner involved with Tony's transformation, his turning into a werewolf wasn't dependent on the phases of the moon--or even the presence of night for that matter. Regardless, I thought Michael Langdon performed reasonably well and having a beautiful actress like Yvonne Lime (as his girlfriend "Arlene Logan") certainly didn't hurt either. That being said, while this is not an outstanding werewolf film by any means, it wasn't bad by any means and I have rated it accordingly. Average.
Review of I Was a Teenage Werewolf
