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Thursday, October 26, 2017

Day 26: Werewolf Of Washington

     Werewolf of Washington is the story of a news reporter having an affair with the Presidents daughter. When he tries get out of the affair he requests a transfer to Budapest. He makes the excuses that he’s being banished for being too pro administration but when the president hears of this he offers him a job he can’t refuse. During an assignment in Hungary, the reporter is bit by a Werewolf. Now back in Washington, he has the whole city in fear!

      This film is a horror comedy but the humor is much more subtle than most horror comedies. Most of its contemporaries are very over the top and campy in their laughs. Werewolf is more focused on satirizing the political climate of its time. Filmed and released during the Nixon administration, the film pulls no punches going as far as shooting a close up of the Watergate building just for the hell of it.

      That said, just about everything else in this movie is pretty bad. The effects, the acting, and even the story is pretty much just The Wolfman meets The President. The political satire isn’t enough to hold interest for an hour and a half. Perhaps some of its jabs are better felt by people who were alive during the Nixon presidency. Some of the jokes, such as police immediately blaming the Black Panthers for the murders can be felt today in regards to the political climate with Black Lives Matter. But for the most part it’s dated.


     Body Count: 6

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