If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

I 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.

"An ambitious young reporter and his girlfriend are traveling in Hungary, when a wolf attacks him. Returning to Washington, D.C. with his girlfriend, who is the President's daughter, he talks the job of Press Secretary for the President of the United States. When some recent acquaintances turn up murdered by some vicious beast, the young man comes to realize the wolf he killed in Hungary was actually a werewolf," according to the DVD sleeve's synopsis.In 1972, White House lawyer John Dean warned disgraced U.S. President Richard M. Nixon there was "a cancer growing on the presidency." For this film, writer/director Milton Moses Ginsberg employs another Dean (Stockwell) to portray the "cancer" in werewolf form. Mr. Ginsberg also uses Thayer David and a Barnabas Collins-type wolf's head cane (from "Dark Shadows"); along with beautiful Jane House (as Marion, the President's daughter).But, Michael Dunn definitely steals the smaller roles, as "Dr. Kissinger" ("Dr. Kiss", for short). Of course, downy Dean Stockwell (as Jack Whittier) is always worth watching. Unfortunately, Ginsberg's clever comedy/satire/horror never really finds its niche. The cast is entertainingly able, and some of the humor works quite well - but, it's too spotty to really howl at.*** The Werewolf of Washington (1973) Milton Moses Ginsberg ~ Dean Stockwell, Biff McGuire, Jane House

My son recently surprised me with a gift that game in the form of "Tales Of Terror" (A 50 DVD Movie Pack). This collection of "horror films that most people have never heard of" included "The Werewolf of Washington" which featured actor Dean Stockwell as a "political lycanthrope". It might surprise you to know that Stockwell was nominated for one Oscar, four Emmy Awards, and won two out of his six Golden Globe Nominations. The thing that I remember most about him was the fact that he looked a lot like the late great James Dean, and for a time there was a lot of talk about him playing Dean in "The James Dean Story". Warner Brothers later decided to make the film into a documentary. I have often wondered what an actor of Stockwell's talent could have done with that role. Having said that... I now can fully appreciate Stockwell's sense of "professionalism" if not his talent after viewing "The Werewolf of Washington". Stockwell puts forth his best effort in this comedy spoof type of rip off of the old Universal Studio version of "The Wolfman". The script seems to have a mind of it's own as it wanders around aimlessly in numerous directions trying to find itself. Actor Stockwell finds himself in a quandary as to whether to play the scene "straight" or as some kind of "comedic foil" and who could possibly blame him? I think what really transpires in this film is a series of disconnected "comedic skits" that range from the lead getting his fingers stuck in bowling ball to a President trying to break into a locked bathroom stall to a midget mad scientist (Michael Dunn)advising the President while standing next to what appears to be the Frankenstein Monster. Maybe Dean Stockwell should have received some kind of special award for just appearing in this film!

Dean 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.