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Dreadfully Boring

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

Dean Stockwell, helpful hologram Al from '80s TV series Quantum Leap, has a 100% probability of sporting fur and fangs when his character, political reporter Jack Whittier, is bitten by a werewolf in Hungary. When Jack returns to Washington to work as press secretary for the president (Biff McGuire), he goes on a nightly killing spree that threatens both his career and his relationship with Marion (Jane House), the president's daughter.This Watergate-era werewolf flick tries to part comedy-tinged horror and part political satire, but doesn't really succeed at either. The horror fails thanks to a terrible looking werewolf design that looks more like Teen Wolf than An American Werewolf, and a total lack of gore; the political aspect is, to my mind at least, extremely boring (although I guess it may have seemed a bit more interesting when it was more topical, as Nixon's presidency came to an abrupt end).Those who enjoy films that throw in totally unexpected weirdness for no discernible reason will no doubt get a few giggles from the inexplicable introduction of a dwarf mad scientist called Dr. Kiss, who gets licked by werewolf Jack, but believe me when I say that it isn't worth trudging through this dreary mess of a movie for one moment of genuine madness.

"Marian, will you leave my chains alone!"Some films boggle the mind. WEREWOLF OF WASHINGTON is such a movie. Okay, Dean Stockwell (in a zombie-like performance) is a White House press secretary bitten by a gypsy werewolf in Budapest, which curses him with the mark of the beast. So the film seems to be a political satire but veers into moments of sheer bizarreness that you just have to see it to believe it. Stockwell has these instances where the werewolf begins to emerge, and he must move his teeth, pretending that the transformation is taking over, which is rather corny. The transformations take forever—I mean, we're talking minutes here, folks. The werewolf in a suit routine (hearkening back to RETURN OF THE VAMPIRE) is rather hilarious, as well as, the grey hair which Stockwell sprouts when he turns into a lycanthrope. Lots of exteriors of Washington used to fool us into believing that the characters are actually operating business in the White House. Stockwell's Jack Whittier remains with a mostly frozen expression of aloofness for most of the film until the end when he is allowed to explode into hysterics while chained to a chair. Then there's this out-of-nowhere, what-the-hell scene which has to have derived from some sort of acid trip where Jack the Werewolf prowls into the inner bowels of what I guess is the White House (it looks like the inside of a nuclear building) and comes across a midget mad scientist with a Frankenstein monster—you think that is strange wait until you witness Jack the Werewolf licking the midget's face! Wow, that was unexpected and random! Oh, the midget returns briefly to meet with the President of the United States in the bathroom! I can't make this up people. I guess this is supposed to be a comedy because it has all these absurd scenes such as a representative of Communist China meeting with the President in Air Force One as Jack transforms into his grey-fur werewolf, and this erupts into a full scale attack—now imagine this for a minute, a werewolf in combat with the President of the United States, and there are no secret service agents who charge the beast, nope. Hell, the President even uses his coat as if he was a matador and the werewolf a bull. This is the kind of movie typical of the drive-in schlock one was accustomed to back in the 70s. It certainly is the appropriate sort of cinematic slop that would indeed wind up on a show hosted by Elvira. Fans of rancid cinema might eat this up, but for most WEREWOLF OF WASHINGTON will be considered a hunk of excrement .

what a waste of time time this woofer is.i realize it's suppose be a comedy/horror.at least i think it is.the problem is,it's funny for all the wrong reasons.one of them is the horrific dialogue,,which is rivaled by the horrid acting.plus the look of the so called werewolf is unbelievably amateurish.it just doesn't look real at all.instead of inspiring fear,it does inspire guffaws.this movie is part of Elvira's Movie Macabre series.and on this disc,there was the option of having Elvira come on and make amusing comments about the movie periodically,sort of like what they do on Mystery Science 3000.that was the only good thing about the movie.otherwise,this thing is abysmal.2/10 for Elvira.

Dean Stockwell gives a deliciously droll and wired portrayal of Jack Whittier, a hotshot presidential press assistant who gets bitten by a werewolf while on assignment in Budapest, Hungary. Whittier comes back to the United States and begins terrorizing the nation's capitol, turning into a werewolf whenever there's a full moon and bumping off various folks in the immediate area. Writer/director Milton Moses Ginsberg concocts one hell of a strangely engaging and amusing eccentric blend of tacky horror and broad political satire, rather clumsily mixing the disparate elements together into a pretty messy, yet still funny and enjoyable synthesis. Technically, the film is very slipshod, with rough, grainy photography, ragged editing, generic spooky music and the laughably shoddy werewolf make-up leaving something to be desired, but still adding substantially to the picture's singularly screwy charm. Fortunately, the game cast come through with delightfully ripe performances: Biff McGuire as the smarmy Nixonesque president, Clifton James as an oily, huffy attorney general, Thayer David as a ramrod police inspector, June House as the president's desirable hottie daughter, Michael Dunn as quirky mad scientist Dr. Kiss, and James Tolkan as a shady fed in sunglasses are a total blast to watch. Best-ever scene: the werewolf attacks a screaming woman trapped in an overturned phone booth. An authentically offbeat curio.