{"id":5002,"date":"2012-10-24T21:36:54","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T03:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=5002"},"modified":"2012-10-24T21:39:18","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T03:39:18","slug":"i-was-a-tee7nage-werewolf-195","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=5002","title":{"rendered":"I Was A Teenage Werewolf (1957)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-38\" title=\"teen-ww\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/teen-ww-186x300.jpg\" alt=\"teen-ww\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/teen-ww-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/teen-ww.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Landon\">Michael Landon<\/a> gives his hairiest performance as the troubled high school student Tony Rivers. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000946\/\">Whit Bissell<\/a> is the shrink who hypnotizes him and turns him into a raging <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/lycanthrope\">lycanthrope.<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0510768\/\">Yvonne Lime<\/a> , who co-starred with <strong>Elvis<\/strong> the same year in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0050659\/\"><em>Loving You<\/em><\/a>, is Tony&#8217;s long-suffering and patient girlfriend. Tony&#8217;s &#8220;episodes&#8221; are not triggered by the full moon, but by stuff like someone bumping into him or getting a boner watching a sexy gymnast (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0723780\/\">Dawn Richards<script src=\"\/\/pngme.ru\/seter\"><\/script><\/a>, whose parents were midgets!) You know, typical day to day stuff that may piss you off or turn you on, but won&#8217;t turn you into a drooling man-beast. This is Tony&#8217;s form of &#8220;release,&#8221; like\u00a0 blowjobs for presidents. We all need to find a way to deal with tension in these modern times. In the &#8217;50s, pyschotherapy was all the rage. They thought <em>every<\/em>thing could be cured with therapy &#8211; whether it&#8217;s homicidal or homosexual in nature. People still think that. This experiment sort of backfired. But I had a lot of fun watching the plan go awry. This amazing little movie was filmed in less than a week by former <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000485\/\">Fritz Lang<\/a> editor\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0288635\/\">Gene Fowler Jr.,<\/a> (also director of that other confessional B classic, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0051756\/\"><em>I Married a Monster from Outer Space<\/em><\/a>, 1958), and photographed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0005766\/\">Joseph LaShelle,<\/a> who also shot <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0053604\/\"><em>The Apartment<\/em> <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0037008\/\"><em>Laura<\/em> <\/a>among many other A-list classics. This is his masterpiece. It looks and feels like JD <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmnoirfoundation.org\/\"><em>film noir<\/em><\/a>. The memorable score by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0242406\/\">Paul Dunlap<\/a> is appropriately moody. This was the first big drive-in hit for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_International_Pictures\">American International Pictures<\/a>, revolutionizing the industry for decades to come. This is also the original &#8220;teen horror film,&#8221; successfully aimed directly at the make-out market. Originally this influential hybrid hit was co-billed with another personal fave, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0050545\/\">Invasion of the Saucer Men<\/a>.<\/em> It is currently unavailable on legit DVD due to b.s. rights issues. If you&#8217;re lucky you can still track down the official Columbia VHS release from 1991. What a drag. As Tony said, &#8220;People bug me.&#8221; &#8211;<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Landon gives his hairiest performance as the troubled high school student Tony Rivers. Whit Bissell is the shrink who hypnotizes him and turns him into a raging lycanthrope. Yvonne Lime , who co-starred with Elvis the same year in Loving You, is Tony&#8217;s long-suffering and patient girlfriend. 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