Veteran actor Dean Stockwell has grown up from that little MGM child star to a fairly handsome man, but most of that is hidden behind a costume that looks like something out of a cheap production of "Alice in Wonderland". This cheaply made horror film is cast with mostly New York theater and soap actors who take the script seriously as if it was Shakespeare, but it's really rather amateurish at times and often unintentionally funny.The story surrounds a reporter who ends up being bitten by a werewolf while in Hungary and the effects it has when he returns to Washington D.C. Several prominent citizens are viciously attacked and mutilated, and eventually, the President himself (Biff McGuire) becomes a target. One of the scarier scenes occurs when Stanton attacks a black man on steps of the Lincoln memorial as Hus girlfriend screams inside a phone booth absurdly placed at the foot of the stairs. He then pushes the booth over and tries to attack her, no glass having been shattered. A chatty society matron is attacked while stumbling home drunk from a function, while a female reporter gets it too while trying to get into a closed gas station. This isn't terrible, but it's far from successful in its attempts to become a retelling of the classic horror tale.

The opening of this film is great - it sorta spoofs The Wolf Man (1941). LOL I love the humor from the get-go. The more the film goes on the more you'll find some cute & oddball werewolf and other humor. This is a comedy-horror so if you chose to watch it you should keep the fact it's a comedy in mind.The movie is not bloody - although there are people killed by the werewolf. The transformation is pretty neat - again reminiscent of the classic Wolf Man transformations. The look of the werewolf in this film reminds me a little bit like the werewolf in 'The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (1973)' - which came out the same year of this film.Overall this is neat werewolf flick with some silly humor. I found it worth watching.6/10

With some added enjoyment of Elvira on her "Movie Macabre," "The Werewolf of Washington" looked to be the typical dumb cheese that the Mistress of the Dark liked to show. And, while it may be dumb cheese at times, at its roots, this flick is actually quite a fun and interesting little political satire. . .In an opening narration, we meet Jack Whittier (Dean Stockwell), one of the "best and brightest" (his words) young journalists in Washington. After having an affair with the president's daughter, he's reassigned to Hungary. This only lasts a short while, because he is bitten by a werewolf (or a German Shepherd) and transfers BACK to D.C. where he, you guessed it, starts to work for the president again. Soon after his return, again you guessed it, dead bodies start turning up around the nation's capital and Whittier must find a way to cease his curse and end the murders.If you haven't yet noticed by the title or plot or that it was on Elvira's show, "The Werewolf of Washington" isn't a film that's meant to be taken very seriously. In fact, it's actually much more a satirical comedy poking fun at our central government with a wry sense of humour (even though it contains about equal parts intentional and unintentional comedy here) than a horror film. For example:"He possessed the sign of the pentagram.""Ah! The Pentagon is behind all this!"Too funny.The entire film is full of great one-liners (or two-liner, here, I guess?) like this, along with a big dose of heavy satire (most notably the apparent Nixon-wannabe as president and the hints at Watergate). And, if you can watch a film for elements like that, well, you'll have to for this one. Why? Because there isn't another good element about it. The direction & cinematography (which occasionally try to be artsy or creative) but just ends up being silly for the most part. This unrestored copy's terrible audio and video make it nearly unwatchable at points. I found myself cranking the volume just to ear a single line of dialogue, then having my eardrums blasted out when the sound returned to workable. The acting is painful and, as Elvira pointed out, it seemed that some of the actors were occasionally forgetting their lines (especially the funny little Gypsy woman). The majority of violence is exchanged for random people just screaming and looking scared, though there is a good bit of blood & gore on occasion. Luckily, a flick like this doesn't need strong film-making. It has a werewolf. In Washington. And that's enough.It's a hard time trying to rate a film like this, however, as it can barely score a 1 as a real film. . . but it can easily grab a 10 just for the endless fun. So, we'll even it out to a. . .Final Verdict: 5/10 You know just from the title whether or not this movie is for you.-AP3-

Voting for this one is tough, it's either a one star or a 10 star! I picked it up the other night as an impulse buy when getting gas...there at the counter for $9.99 was a 10 movie, 3DVD crap compilation called "Werewolves, Vampires and Zombies." This was the movie that sold me on the package...ow had I not heard of this one? Technically, it's awful. Sound and visual quality are very spotty, as is usually the case with these cheap compilations. Heck, spotty implies there may be some good moments, so let me change that assessment to horrible. Continuity is an afterthought, camera shots attempt to be arty, from shots up through the bottom of a toilet bowl to dizzying handhelds.Perhaps the biggest plot issue is the appearance of the mysterious and diminutive Dr. Kiss, performing his Frankensteinian experiments in the White House basement. He seems to be some sort of power behind the throne, but we never discover more than that. Everything about the good doctor, from the deference of the president, his experiments, to his disappearing with a peculiar sunglassed man into the same stall of a bathroom, makes no sense whatsoever. It really seems like one day on the set someone said "hey look, we got a midget! Write him into the story!" Sure, it makes no sense, but after the movie you and your fellow viewers will be laughing and wondering wtf it was all about.The political humor has it's moments, lots of hippie hating and attempts by the administration to control the hated and feared media (the pres holds an unscheduled press conference to announce an agreement with the Chinese, he and his handlers hope it will deflect attention from his declaring martial law in D.C. to take care of the problems of the murders and the damned hippies).There are an abundance of laugh-out-loud moments, whether intentional or not, but more than anything else the greatest thing of this movie is its ability at the end to leave you with an overwhelming feeling of "what the heck was that?"