Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Celia A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Scarecrow-88 "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 .

azcowboysingr Imagine what would happen if Mel Brooks, Roger Corman, & the Democratic Party teamed up with that asshole Micheal Moore to make a horror movie. That pretty much says it all. But IMDb says I have to type 10 lines of comment. So... The acting is terrible (Even the normally competent Dean Stockwell goes through his paces as if he was stoned on something). The constant digs at conservative Republicans is more than just annoying, it is another reason why we hate the Demon-crats so much. The film quality is so bad that if it had been shot on 8mm film it could only have improved it. The jokes fall flat, and the makeup is a total farce. Is that 10 lines yet? I hope?

Lee Eisenberg I don't know specifically whether "The Werewolf of Washington" was intended as a political satire, but it sure comes across as such. It probably helped that the movie was released around the time of Watergate (and at one point, we even get a glimpse of that very building).The opening voice-over monologue begins with something like "How could it happen here?", before White House press secretary Jack Whittier (Dean Stockwell) explains his predicament. I believe that Upton Sinclair wrote a book called "It Can Happen Here", about the possibility of fascism coming to America. Anyway, after Jack has an affair with the president's daughter, the prez sends him to Hungary - ah, a jab at the Cold War - where he gets bitten by a wolf. When someone warns Jack about the pentagram, he thinks that the person says Pentagon (what aren't those warmongers behind?).When he arrives back in the states, the president is angry about how the media reports negatively on the current state of affairs, especially since it makes the nation's youth protest things so much; the prez's solution: martial law! If that isn't a rip at the Nixon administration, then I don't know what is! But sure enough, Jack starts seeing the pentagram in people's palms, and...well, you know what happens once there's a full moon.So even if it was intended as a straightforward horror flick, this certainly elicits a sense of political satire. With comments about the Black Panthers and other stuff, it's just the sort of thing that we need nowadays. I totally recommend it.

scroffy2001 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?"