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Tony Rivers (Michael Landon) is an angry, troubled teen who shows misguided aggression towards his friends and family. Sensing something is awry, Tony agrees to see psychologist Dr Brandon, a skilled hypnotist. Unbeknownst to Tony however, Brandon is hell-bent on seeing Tony regress to a primal state under his influence. When a teen is killed, seemingly by an animal, the facts are soon uncovered - Tony is a werewolf. Despite its B-movie origins and stock characterisations, “I was a teenage werewolf” plays as a sharp analogy for the trials, physical transformations, alienation and inherent difficulties of puberty.
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In ACMI's collection
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
317318
Language
English
Audience classification
PG
Subject categories
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Teenagers
Family, Gender Identity, Relationships & Sexuality → Teenagers
Feature films → Feature films - United States
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Aggressiveness (Psychology)
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Hypnotism
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Men - Psychology
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Psychoanalysis
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Psychologists
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Psychology
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Psychotherapy
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Psychotherapy patients
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Teenagers
Magic, Occult & Supernatural → Monsters
Magic, Occult & Supernatural → Werewolves
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)