Full Moon High (1981)

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Let me start by saying that I'm a pretty big fan of the director of this film, Larry Cohen. He made a lot of great 70s and 80s exploitation fare, including Black Caesar, It's Alive, God told me to and Q the winged serpent. Despite the fact he often worked on a small budget, he still was able to make some very entertaining and well done films. This film, Full Moon High, was more of a comedic take on a horror film: It's not perfect, and some of the jokes fall flat, but it's still pretty funny, and clearly the writer (Larry Cohen, natch) knows the genre well enough to lampoon it.

The plot is pretty simple: Tony (well played by Adam Arkin) goes over to Transylvania with his Father (Ed McMahon, in a pretty funny and boozy cameo) circa 1961, so Ed McMahon can do some Cold War era spying. He gets bit by a werewolf, ends up with the curse, and when he gets back to the States he abandons his life and school before the 'big game' to wander the earth, cursed as it were. Needless to say, 20 years later he turns back up to reclaim his glory on the Football film. Of course, circa 1980/81, times are a lot different, and some of the students (and one crazed ex-girlfriend) that he went to school with have all aged and grown up, unlike Tony. Will Tony finally win the big game against ...

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