Awh Ma I'm So Conflicted: I Was a Teenage Werewolf

 

This movie is over at Team Be Good.

I had the damndest time trying to find this movie. It was almost as bad as The Enchanted Cottage. Apparently, a batch of legal crap keeps people from repackaging Enchanted Cottage and Ghost and Mrs. Muir, both of which are ripe for musical transfiguration.

The Werewolf is a human ruled by his Reptilian Brain. He/She is the quintessential incarnation of the conflict between the ego and the id. A human battling his animal nature. Instinctual urges, violence, barking out threats, overwhelms the human ego and turns humans into wolves. 

This type of wolf is not the balance of nature predator but the rabid wolf. The delirium associated with rabies has been identified as the real world antecedent to the Werewolf myth. But on a psychological level, the werewolf is not a myth anymore than mood swings or bipolar disorders are myths.

The Werewolf's cousins are Mr. Hyde, the Incredible Hulk, Darkman, and a host of others. A sentient werewolf, a la Hugh Jackman, is a dog that won't hunt (his girlfriend at any rate). Meaning, he has tamed his id. He has a modicum of self-control. He can save his romantic partner.

Perhaps it is fitting Michael Landon has a go at werewolfism given rumors about his dark side. 

But we all have a dark side. 

Does that mean we'll all have a go at werewolfism?

At one point or another.