| Date | Area | Gross |
|---|---|---|
| USA | USD 2,000,000 |
| Date | Area | Gross |
|---|---|---|
| USA | USD 2,000,000 |
Definitely not that bad and quite entertaining. It does drag in the middle, the script does descend into eye-rolling cheesiness often and the rock song is very out-of-place.
Gene Fowler Jr. directed this famous hybrid of horror and juvenile delinquency that stars a young Michael Landon as troubled teenager Tony Rivers, who is ordered to undergo therapy to control his anger issues(he gets in a lot of fights at high school) Unfortunately, his doctor(played by Whit Bissell) is quite unscrupulous, using Tony in his hypno-regression therapy that causes him to become a murderous werewolf!
The Werewolf (1956) might have been the first werewolf scientifically created on film. Well, "Teenage Werewolf" is in a similar vein as "The Werewolf" - a doctor has created *gulp* a werewolf out of Tony Rivers (Michael Landon) in order to prove his idea to the rest of the scientific community.
Herman Cohen started his climb up the show business ladder from the lowest rung, working as a gofer and usher at Detroit's Dexter Theater at the tender age of 12. By 18, he'd be the manager.
***SPOILERS*** The very first of the "I was a Teenage" movies followed by I was a Teenage Frankenstein, Zombie, Teenager etc. etc.
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.
I'm not going to rehash the plot,I'm just want to everybody why I enjoyed the movie.I like the 1950s.
"I Was a Teenage Werewolf" is one of the most famous '50s b-movies, and one of the best movies produced by American International Pictures in its early '50s heyday. It was the first movie to use the dreaded word "teenage" in its title, and the first to depict a member of this despised minority transforming into a monster.
The future star of three hit TV series ("Bonanza", "Little House on the Prairie", "Highway to Heaven") needs an instant shave from his usual clean shaven self in this drive-in classic from the early days of American International. Michael Landon is a troubled teenager with an attitude who finds the wrong help in psychiatrist Whit Bissell who uses his private experiments to help Landon get revenge on those he believed have wronged him.
