The Werewolf Of Washington

This movie is amazing! A great classic! I highly recommend it!

I actually like this movie & the old school werewolf make-up that looks nothing like the cover-art on the DVD cover + Dean Stockwell is a good actor. I had seen it as a kid & always remembered the fun helicopter ride at the end! "Jack.....uh, Jack??" :) I hadn't seen it in years, so I had to buy it. I saw it on Elvira's Movie Macabre recently & the quality on the DVD is the same, definitely not remastered BUT it looks fine IMO

what can be said??the odies and cheapies r still the best

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

Where to start with train wreck? First, the filmmakers had little idea of what the White House is like. Particularly after seeing a few seasons of West Wing, it is hard to ignore that it seems only slightly bigger than my parent's house in Iowa and that there is only three or four people in it aside from the president. The room the Joint Chiefs of Staff meet in looks like our local VFW. The president has a staff of two or three guys and no bodyguards whatsoever and doesn't seem to have much to do with himself other than attend parties and bowl. In the second to last scene when the president is talking with the Chinese prime minister (the country has a president, but the filmmakers didn't check that one), the plane is a small puddle jumper, there are no staff present on either the Chinese or the American side, and the area they are sitting in the plane is no bigger than the backseat of a taxi. This is real Ed Wood level production values, but old Ed at least imparted some personality to his movies. Second, all of this wouldn't matter so much if the story wasn't so plodding. The problem with many horror movies is the filmmakers have a cool title, but not much idea of what else to do with the movie (think Lunchmeat, Redneck Zombies, and Doctor Butcher, MD [Medical Deviate]). Indeed, the nimrods behind this clunker didn't think much beyond the idea of the press secretary of being a werewolf. In the world of this 1973 toilet raft, full moons are evidently a nightly occurrence in DC, as there is little continuity from scene to scene of Dean Stockwell turning into a werewolf and then wasting some or other Beltway insider in poorly lit night scenes (note to director-film the night scenes during the day with tinted lenses from now on). I suppose you could conceivably figure out how much time elapsed in the movie if you count murders, but generally between them, the president and press secretary are generally kickin' back with a gin & tonic, so I found my attention flagging. Which brings me to my third point, the poor quality of this video. This is one murky, scratched up print that Alpha Video put out. It is pan and scan, and the picture definitely feels clipped. I am a big fan of public domain stuff, but the DVD company really lowered the bar with this one. For 70s completists only.

Package arrived in good shape a add to my horror collection

Mr. Stockwell obviously did this film for the money. The film begins with Mr. Stockwell requesting a transfer from the Washington press core due to the president's daughters' infatuation with him. While in Romania he is involved in a motor vehicle accident, which disables his car. The scene moves on to a very reminicent The Wolf Man, where Mr. Stockwell kills a wolf with his cane. This is where the intrest ends. Mr. Stockwell is bitten and becomes a werewolf that stalks and kills the wives of some of Washington's polititions. The most rediculous scene is when one of the Senetors wives drives up to the gas pumps and the werewolf is clinging to to the rooftop of her car. Like she didn't here it jump up there or didn't see it when she got into the car. She gets out of the car and then sees the werewolf.....? The other scene was when the werewolf wanders into the scientists lab and allows the scientist, played by Michael Dunn, pet him as though he were a puppy....? This is where I turned the movie off. Save your money folks; this is one bad movie.

This movie was actually a little better than I was expecting. It's like a political horror/comedy spoof of The Wolf Man. Dean Stockwell stars as Jack Whittier, the press assistant to the President who is attacked by a Werewolf while in Hungary. When he gets backhe begins to turn and start killing innocent people in the night. Jack tries to warn everyone, but they all think it's hippies. The President is a dim-witted idiot who never pays attention. If you want a good cheesy werewolf grindhouse film, I would definitely recommend THE WEREWOLF OF WASHINGTON!!!

Werewolf of Washington is another film that wouldn't play proply it kept jumping and stopping.