The Werewolf Of Washington

This is a very fun film, an excellent parody of both politics in the early '70's, and werewolf legendry and lore. Recommended!

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WARNING! If this shows up as The Werewolf Of London, this is NOT said movie. This is The Werewolf Of Washington. This is a horribly cheap remake of the original The Wolfman movie. They have the EXACT general story and plot as the one they are trying to copy. They have language in this, as well as some content. The only reason this rubbish movie is getting a 1 star at all is because of that part at the ending where the U.S. President had gotten bitten and when he is making a speech you can hear him start to howl. That and they don't have a 0 star option. Please do not watch this movie. Please do not waste your time with this movie, and certainly please do not buy this movie. Instead, they have a double-feature of The Werewolf Of London And The She-Wolf Of London on Amazon, so please spend your attention, time, and money on that instead. Or the original The Wolfman movie as another choice. That one is one of the best Werewolf movies there is.

Horrible. Everything about it. Got 15 min in & shut it off. Laughable, bad acting, terrible visuals...ugh. LOL!

First, considering the era this movie came out (very early '70's), there is a lot of back story to the political and social aspects of this flick. What is considered campy and silly by today's standards, must have been hard-hitting and barbs when this movie was released. Considering I was about in 3rd grade during the entire Watergate era, I found this movie to be more groan-worthy than making a political statement. I couldn't figure out if some of the dialog was supposed to be funny, poking fun or just plain ludicrous.If you are a Dean Stockwell fan, I think you'll enjoy this otherwise, you'll just be in for a waste of time. The werewolf transformation scenes are not much better than any of the old Lon Chaney ones. I found it interesting that the political enemies where outspoken women and a black guy. Of course, there were no women represented in the close circle of the President but, such was the time.

I was 15 years old when this movie was released and I wanted to see it, but, my parents wouldn't take me to the theater. We had a double screen drive in theater in my small suburban town and our high school was just across the street from the drive in. So, when we had a school football game taking place I could see one of the screens from the bleachers. I was able to see parts of this movie, but, of course didn't have any sound to hear what was being said. The same thing with "Nightmare in Wax" with Cameron Mitchell.As the years passed I waited to see if this movie would ever be released on VHS tape and then later on dvd. But, I never saw this movie ever released, or even on TV. Till just recently when it was released on Bluray for the first time. I bought it and just watched it a few nights ago. Boy, was I disappointed.It is a horrible horror/comedy movie that fails miserably at both counts. It was not only low budget, but, it was so low budget that I wanted to put the Bluray disc into my shredder after just a few minutes into the beginning. It was neither scary nor funny. It was just plain lame and stupid. The beginning of the movie starts off after a way too long shot of the full moon and a way too long and super boring monologue that introduces the star Dean Stockwell as a newspaper reporter assigned to Budapest, Hungary. This location scene is in the woods and is all in black and white. The director/writer Ginsberg was obviously trying to use the B/W as a homage to the original B/W Wolfman movie starring Lon Chaney, Jr. But, it just came off as a lame attempt and was a failed attempt at a homage.The scene in Budapest is super lame and overly long and boring, just like every other scene in the rest of the movie. Stockwell's character is driving a car with a female colleague and come across a man standing next to a motorcycle standing in the middle of the road. Stockwell stops, gets out and starts screaming at the man, like a little girl. The man totally ignores him and just stands there. Stockwell screams that he needs to get to the airport or he'll miss his flight. The man just walks away. Stockwell gets in his car and crashes near a tree and walks in the woods until he comes across several people, including the man with the motorcycle. Again, he gets flustered and starts his little girl like screaming. I just wished someone would slap him with all of his whining and high pitched screaming. Finally a dog/supposedly wolf later runs up and bites him leaving a red pentagram mark on his chest that looks like a child's red powdery play tatoo. He goes back to DC and becomes the president's assistant communications person.There are several really lame werewolf attack scenes where the werewolf slowly approaches his victim, just kind of walks up and the victim sees him and looks surprised and instead of immediately attacking, he kind of curiously looks at the victim and walks close to them and finally attacks. In one attack he attacked a woman at night by a store. The next morning a shopper walks out to the parking lot full of cars and walks up to the victim laying in a shopping cart (amongst all of the parked cars that people drove up in, parked and went inside without noticing the dead body next to their parking space) and starts screaming. Someone mentions that the victim's guts were ripped out, but, the shot of the victim only shows some fake looking blood on her neck and upper chest area, no woulds, cuts or any lacerations. Just the fake looking blood.The White House doesn't look anything like the White House, except for the exterior shots of the real White House. The interior looks more like the set of a 70's funky house of prostitution with red walls and old shag carpeting. Especially the stairs going upstairs with the red walls and the bathroom. There is a ridiculous scene thrown in that has nothing to do with the story line. The werewolf is running down a hall in the fake White House and runs through what looks like a big, industrial chemical plant with large tanks on either side of the large industrial building. Who knew they had a large industrial building in the White House with large tanks containing chemicals. The werewolf runs up to a dwarf with a surgical mask on standing next to a rolling medical table with a large man lying under a sheet on it with large boots sticking out from under the sheet. The dwarf is later identified as Dr. Kiss and is played by Michael Dunn. It took me a day later to figure out that they were making a connection between Dr. Kiss and Dr. Frankenstein (large man on the rolling table was supposed to be the Frankenstein monster, but, the budget wasn't enough to pay for the monster make up, so they covered his head in bandages and only focused on this large boots sticking out from under the sheet) and Dr. Kiss was also short for Dr. Henry Kissinger. Yeah, that was really stupid and the low budget made it insulting as well.The rest of the movie did not get any better. I was really tempted to stop watching and throw it in the trash. But, I paid for it and was going to watch through to the end. Don't get me wrong, I love horror movies and really love black comedies as well. As an example, the original George Romero movie "Dawn of the Dead" was one of my favorite all time horror movies with black comedy. It was low budget, with low budget actors, but, it was well written, well directed, and compelling, which all add up to the makings of a great movie. But, this Werewolf in Washington, it was written as if by a 10 year old who cannot tell a story, much less add comedic elements that would amuse anyone older than a 5 year old.They tried to make the character of the president out as a clown, but, they failed to pull it off. And the scenes where the president (as well as other characters) was talking without realizing the werewolf was transforming, went on and on and on and on for way, way, way too long. I kept wishing that the Werewolf would finally just kill the president to make him stop talking. They could have cut 10 minutes from every one of those scenes. I waited 50 years to see this movie for the first time and I wasted my time on this lame movie. Dean Stockwell was a decent actor, mainly after he got older and got better roles. I remember seeing him in "The Dunwhich Horror" and his acting wasn't that much better in that movie as well. But, at least that movie had a better writer and director, who did not bore the audience with boring monologues ad nauseam and overly long scenes that go on for way too long. Like a movie where the cinematographer shoots a close up on a severed arm and stays on it for a full minute before moving on.If you haven't seen this movie, just skip it. Or, catch it when it is available for free. Do not rent it or waste one cent on it or you will kick yourself in the keester for wasting your money.

Milton Moses Ginberg started his directorial career with Coming Apart, a near-documentary which starred Rip Torn as a mentally disturbed psychologist who has been filming his sexual affairs. Sally Kirkland was also in the film, which was shot within a one-room, 15 x17 set.This movie is absolutely nothing like that movie.Jack Whitter (Dean Stockwell) is the press secretary for the White House. While he's in Hungary, a Communist werewolf bites him, which is no help at all when he moves back to our nation's capital and starts making time with the President's daughter.Of course, now he's also killing members of the President's Cabinet with all of the murders forming the shape of a pentagram. I guess it's up to the Second Daughter to take him out with a silver bullet, eh?You have to admire a movie that posits Clifton James, Sheriff J.W. Pepper from the 1970's James Bond films, as our nation's attorney general.