RELATED: The 9 best movies about kids and werewolves I Was a Teenage Werewolf stars a very young, pre-Little House on the Prairie, Michael Landon as a volatile teen named Tony, a kid who – like most American teenagers of the time – must have seen 1955’s Rebel Without a Cause a few more times than humanly healthy.
And no I Was a Teenage Werewolf.
I Was a Teenage Werewolf was – like all of these movies – panned by the critics at the time, though was a commercial hit.
But none of these films had the primal, urgent and heartbreaking energy that Werewolf has in its finest moments.