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Full Moon High
High-school quarterback Tony Walker is bitten by a werewolf and transforms into a growling beast that hungrily chases down beautiful girls.
Release : | 1981 |
Rating : | 4.7 |
Studio : | Filmways Pictures, Larco Productions, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Director of Photography, |
Cast : | Adam Arkin Ed McMahon Joanne Nail Alan Arkin Pat Morita |
Genre : | Fantasy Horror Comedy |
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There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.
The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.
Okay, I love Teen Wolf - it was one of my favorite movies as a kid and I still think it's pretty cool, but Full Moon High (4 years earlier), is SO MUCH BETTER!The plot is better and more involved, and, actually in some ways, even makes more sense than Teen Wolf.There are way more jokes (and better jokes!). The cast is awesome - both Adam and Alan Arkin, Kenneth Mars, and even a bit of a young Bob Sagget. It gets a little jumbled in the middle when a seemingly potential female love interest comes into play, but it sorts back out.It's been a while since I've laughed out loud as much at a movie.I don't want to give too much away, but as far as Teenage Werewolf movies go, this may be the best one ever made! An instant favorite! See it!!! (You can stream it on Netflix)
In this send-up of horror films, 50's cold war paranoia, Reagan-era America, and high school films, Adam Arkin plays Tony, the star quarterback of Full Moon High in the 1950's. He and his father (Ed McMahon) travel to communist Romania and while he's lost in the streets one night, he is bitten by a werewolf. When he returns stateside, he cannot control his animalistic urges and goes on a killing spree. Frustrated, he flees town. Decades later, the immortal Tony returns to town and re-enrolls in highschool. He still can't control his transformations, and the townspeople, and his friends, realize he's not quite human. It all culminates during the schools big football game.I expected this to be one of those 'so bad it's good' films from the early 80's. But I was surprised that the film was actually, legitimately funny. The cast, including Kenneth Mars as a pervy coach, Roz Kelly as Tony's lusty former flame, Demond Wilson as a bus driver, and Alan Arkin as a oddball doctor, go all out, with hilarious results.While watching this film I was struck by how similar the writing and humor were to 'Family Guy.' 'Full Moon High' has that same anything goes attitude and never takes itself seriously.
I've seen better teenage werewolf movies in my time, this one however, takes the cake. More comedy than horror, "Full Moon High" puts the "c" in cheese-fest. The star quality in this movie is not bad. Just the way it was made just sends in rolling downhill. Adam Arkin plays Tony, an all-American high school football player of the 50's who ends up not aging due to a werewolf bite in Transylvania. The most annoying part of the movie was the violin player. He drove everyone batty! Ed McMahon plays his ultra-conservative father who met his end of his own bullet. Adam's father Alan plays a shrink who seems to be not top of his game. After all these years Tony seems to be very out of place due to the attack, and then he'll get the chance to catch in his state. More laugh than blood shed, this movie is just a start in the 80's, "Teen Wolf" was an improvement from this! 1 out of 5 stars.
Whack!!! I got this movie because Elizabeth Hartman was in it. I was disappointed to find out she was in like two short scenes towards the end. Other than that I was basically hitting the fast forward button the entire time. Some teenager goes on a trip to Romania with his Dad and gets bitten by a wolf and turns into a werewolf if there's a full moon. He kills his father and friends. About 30 years past but he doesn't age a bit and enrolls in a high school. There he meets a shy teacher whom he ends up biting and then has kids with her. This movie sucked and I don't recommend it to anyone. Read War and Peace instead. Only Ms. Hartman did a great job. Check out a very young Bob Saget in this one!!