I frequently call movies "the worst I have ever seen" and then I see something worse.This is the new worst ever.It feels like they didn't even try to make it good.It starts out in Hungary and it's so dark that you can never actually see anything.While the main character is driving down a road he encounters a man standing in the middle of it and wrecks into a tree.He jumps out and starts yelling at the guy and then angrily says "What's the matter?You don't speak English?"You're in Hungary idiot, what kind of question is that?Then he gets bitten by a regular wolf and he kills it, then it turns into a human.At one point he even leaves his girlfriend alone in the dark woods while he walks miles to a gas station.Anyway he ends up at the White House which is extremely dark and empty for some reason.Then he turns into the silliest looking werewolf ever.As a werewolf he has gray hair even though he has brown hair as a human,WTF?Why does he even change into a werewolf?He got bitten by a regular wolf.So after he kills a woman, him,the President Of The United States and an Army general go to the crime scene and argue with the hippies and reporters.The President goes to crime scenes?Truly retarded.There's no possible way anyone could ever enjoy this movie, so don't watch it
... View More"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 .
... View MoreI saw this by way of Elvira and it was pretty bad,even though there was some unintentional humor in a few scenes.What I noticed is that when Dean Stockwell turns into a werewolf,his suit is never messed up or torn.Plus,it looks like the same suit every time he turns into one.What I'd like to know is what that midget was working on when Dean as the werewolf came in? It looked like the Frankenstein monster,with the big shoes and everything,even though I only saw part of it.And there was this guy in a cage on the far left.What was the midget making down there?And why was Dean as the werewolf acting like a dog? I mean,he even licked the midget a few times.He seem tame,but not like before when he killed those other people. I'm assuming it was the boiler room.It didn't make sense,whatever they were making or doing and it was never explained.What I also noticed is when Dean is turning into the werewolf in the helicopter,how come he doesn't try to get out?Why just sit there? I know,I know,I shouldn't take this movie seriously,right? I did like Dean's performance,even though he really didn't have much to do when he was the werewolf..I kind of liked the ending,even though they didn't show it..I give it a 4,I guess.
... View MoreDean 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.
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