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Full Moon High

  • 1981
  • PG
  • 1h 33m
IMDb RATING
4.7/10
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Full Moon High (1981)
A popular high school football player becomes a werewolf after a trip to Romania, and struggles to come to terms with his new reality.
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A popular high school football player becomes a werewolf after a trip to Romania, and struggles to come to terms with his new reality.A popular high school football player becomes a werewolf after a trip to Romania, and struggles to come to terms with his new reality.A popular high school football player becomes a werewolf after a trip to Romania, and struggles to come to terms with his new reality.

  • Director
    • Larry Cohen
  • Writer
    • Larry Cohen
  • Stars
    • Adam Arkin
    • Roz Kelly
    • Ed McMahon
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    • Director
      • Larry Cohen
    • Writer
      • Larry Cohen
    • Stars
      • Adam Arkin
      • Roz Kelly
      • Ed McMahon
    • 39User reviews
    • 25Critic reviews
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    Adam Arkin
    Adam Arkin
    • Tony
    Roz Kelly
    • Jane
    Ed McMahon
    Ed McMahon
    • Dad - Col. William P. Walker
    Joanne Nail
    Joanne Nail
    • Ricky
    Bill Kirchenbauer
    Bill Kirchenbauer
    • Flynn
    Elizabeth Hartman
    Elizabeth Hartman
    • Miss Montgomery
    Louis Nye
    Louis Nye
    • Reverend
    Demond Wilson
    Demond Wilson
    • Cabbie-Busdriver
    Jim J. Bullock
    Jim J. Bullock
    • Eddie
    • (as Jm. Bullock)
    James Dixon
    James Dixon
    • Deputy - Jack
    Kenneth Mars
    Kenneth Mars
    • The Coach - Principal Cleveland
    Alan Arkin
    Alan Arkin
    • Dr. Brand
    Tom Aldredge
    Tom Aldredge
    • The Jailer
    Pat Morita
    Pat Morita
    • The Silversmith
    Tom Clancy
    Tom Clancy
    • Priest
    Janet Villella
    • Fortune Teller
    Laurene Landon
    Laurene Landon
    • Blondie
    • (as Laureen Landon)
    Jack Eiseman
    • Student
    • Director
      • Larry Cohen
    • Writer
      • Larry Cohen
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    3jbar19

    VERY disappointing, no camp value, not bad enough 2 b good

    Man, was I disappointed.

    1) Adam Arkin is more whiny than Ross Geller from 'Friends'

    2) A great cast is wasted (Kenneth Mars, Alan Arkin, Ed McMahon, Pat Morita, Louis Nye) with this amateurish script.

    3) The movie suffers from horrible pacing. It jumps around through in a jumbled, confusing manner.

    4) The story doesn't even make sense. Why does he want to break the football streak? What about the stupid violin music? None of it is explained.

    5) It's not even funny. It's like a bunch of accountants trying to do improv, saying "Lookit me! Lookit me I'm being funny!" This was a bad attempt at making another "Love At First Bite".

    I like Larry Cohen movies, but man he failed here. I couldn't wait for the credits to roll. Horribly disappointed.
    6thehumanduvet

    Relentlessly silly comic horror

    Aiming at a blend of Airplane! style wackiness and Mel Brooks-a-like angsty spoof, this is almost good - the occasional inspired moment (Werewolf Annoys Community) keeps you watching through the massive swathes of so-so gags, occasional clunkers and habitual dragging out of jokes way beyond their peak. Part so-bad-it's-good, part nearly quite good, and with a typically intense, shouty performance from ace Alan Arkin, this just about scrapes into the Watchable category. Probably a gem to obscure B-horror fans.
    4Leofwine_draca

    Disappointingly broad comedy; Teen Wolf is better

    One of those films you can guess the entirety of simply from the title, this disjointed movie from Larry Cohen is definitely one of his lesser films. It's kept watchable through the sheer level of gags on offer (often with lots of sight jokes that are very missable if you're not concentrating) although most of the one-liners are excruciating. A better than average cast do their jobs well even though their characters are limited to doing/saying mainly one thing. Sadly the low budget often shows, with the film cutting away from the action on more than one occasion, and also in the ridiculous werewolf makeup which reaches new lows in tackiness (seemingly a riff on I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF's makeup but with hardly the same impact).

    Adam Arkin is the good-natured high school boy who is turned into a werewolf while blundering in Romania. From then on, he turns into a wolf basically every night (bizarre moon cycles then) and is stalked by a mystery violinist who pops up at every occasion and quickly becomes repetitive. His mad father (played hilariously by Ed McMahon) believes that a nuclear bomb will explode at any minute and is ready to take refuge in his bunker. An inordinate number of homosexuals are also present at Full Moon High to admire Arkin, giving plenty of room for lots of jokes and laughs in the men's locker room! The film's highlight undeniably has to be a cameo by Arkin's father, Alan, as a loud-mouthed shrink who attempts to make a man stop from committing suicide by hurling abuse at him! Otherwise, this is strictly business as usual, and pretty cheesy in a bad '80s kind of way, complete with absurd fashions and silly dialogue. With only a few funny bits and a lot of complete nonsense, I would recommend this to nostalgia buffs or Cohen fans only.
    Wizard-8

    Some laughs, but much too sloppy

    Larry Cohen's movie "Full Moon High" is one of the more obscure entries on the prolific filmmaker's resume, seldom shown on cable and taking forever to be released on videotape (and to this date has not gotten a DVD release.) It does not take long upon watching it to figure out why it doesn't have a cult following. Now, unlike some of the other IMDb users who have commented on this movie, I *did* find some of the gags in the movie to be amusing, and I thought that Adam Arkin was pretty good in the lead role - you can really see his father Alan in him from his looks to his comic timing. (Alan himself does also appear in the movie, and he's amusing as well.) However, the movie as a whole does not work. While there are some funny moments, most of the gags die upon arrival. The real problem with the movie is that it is really sloppily made. A number of scenes feel unfinished, missing punchlines or simple conclusions. A bigger problem with the script is that there isn't much plot here, with scene after scene with little to nothing advancing things. It does not take long for the movie to become tiring, even though Cohen jam- packs the movie with energy. I think a documentary on what went wrong with this movie would be a lot more entertaining than the movie itself.
    6tavm

    Larry Cohen's Full Moon High was pretty amusing when involving werewolves and sex...

    In continuing to review werewolf movies in chronological order, we're still at 1981 with probably the most obscure one yet, one that I didn't even know of its existence till a few weeks ago when I saw it listed on Wikipedia before then finding it on YouTube. It seems to mainly be inspired by the Michal Landon-starred I Was a Teenage Werewolf as Adam Arkin plays a teen named Tony (like Landon) and it takes place during the late '50s (like IWATW) but then moves on through the years (as exemplified by the changing of the presidential portraits though the one after Carter was meant to be a joke) before Tony comes back to his high school of the title to once again play football having not aged during that time. I'll stop there and just say while I was pretty amused much of the time, there were also many places where I wondered if maybe it could have been funnier. I did like the scenes involving Ed McMahon as Tony's father and Adam Arkin's real dad-Alan-as an insulting shrink. Oh, and also the scene involving his new girlfriend and her tying up Tony in bed was also fun in an adult humor kind of way. So on that note, I say give Full Moon High a look.

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    • Trivia
      The werewolf make-up special effects were done by Steve Neill who had been a protégé of Rick Baker who did the make-up on the same 1981 year's Le Loup-garou de Londres (1981).
    • Goofs
      When the kid is visiting his fathers grave at the cemetery the head stones side changes from a rough rocky surface to a smooth sharply cut one. It changes from a real head stone to a fake one when the father's name is shown.
    • Quotes

      Miss Montgomery: Come back you premature ejaculator!

    • Connections
      Featured in Troldspejlet: Troldspejlet Special: Ulvehyl ved fuldmåne (1992)
    • Soundtracks
      When the Sun Goes Down
      by Janelle Webb (as Janelle Webb Cohen) and Gary William Friedman

      Vocal by Shezwae Powell

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    • Release date
      • October 9, 1981 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Ein Werwolf beißt sich durch
    • Filming locations
      • Lyndhurst, New Jersey, USA
    • Production company
      • Larco Productions
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 33 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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