The year is 1960, and high-school football star Tony (Adam Arkin) is living with his conservative CIA agent father, Colonel William Walker (Ed McMahon). Their relationship takes a turn for the worse when Tony accompanies the Colonel on a diplomatic trip to Romania - where he is promptly bitten by a werewolf, transforming the teenager into a monster. Upon returning to America, Tony's newfound curse causes his behaviour to spiral out of control, and he is forced to leave his small town behind. He eventually returns twenty years later in 1980 - but a marked side effect of his curse is that he doesn't look a day older than when he left. No matter how much the world has changed, Tony is forever a teenage werewolf...
New audio commentary by Steve Mitchell, director of the 2017 documentary King Cohen
Archival audio commentary with director Larry Cohen, moderated by Steve Mitchell
Today's Teenage Werewolf - a new interview with film writer Michael Doyle, author of Larry Cohen: The Stuff of Gods and Monsters
Growing Pains - a new video essay on the history and evolution of the teenage werewolf on film by werewolf expert Kaja Franck, author of The Ecogothic Werewolf in Literature
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