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The Werewolf of Woodstock

The Werewolf of Woodstock

The Werewolf of Woodstock (1975)

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Dick Clark spent fifty years as the most wholesome man in American pop music. He also produced a movie about a hippie-hating farmer who becomes a werewolf.

In THE WEREWOLF OF WOODSTOCK (1975), a local man - played by Tige Andrews of The Mod Squad - is still seething months after the historic music festival has ended. He goes out drunk to smash the abandoned stage. It is still wired to the power lines. He takes the jolt, survives, and from then on turns into a werewolf whenever it storms.

A no-name band arrives to photograph themselves in the wreckage, hoping to convince a record label they played there. He hunts them. At one point he drives a dune buggy, which is apparently what everybody remembers from this thing.

Six years after Woodstock, the establishment is the monster - in the form of an enraged middle-aged property owner.

The Werewolf of Woodstock was shot on videotape, aired once, late at night on ABC, and vanished.

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About the Film

After the festival was over...the music wasn't the only thing that died!

Directed By
John Moffitt
Runtime
66 minutes
Released
January 24, 1975
Certification
NR
Country
United States of America
Starring
Michael Parks, Harold J. Stone, Meredith MacRae, Ann Doran, Richard Webb
More Credits
Genres
Horror, TV Movie
Language
English
Origin
US
Studios
Dick Clark Productions
Written By
Bill Lee, Hank Saroyan
Produced By
Hank Saroyan, Bill Lee, Dick Clark
Also Starring
Belinda Balaski, Tige Andrews, Robert Dix, Andrew Stevens, Bobby Clark

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      2. Roy Moses “BAD RONALD” (with Scott Jacoby) is a legendary entry in the series from ’72. ‘The ABC Wide World Of Mystery’ was the LATE NIGHT Version (usually on Wednesdays or Fridays, if I remember) of ‘ABC’S Movie Of The Week’, and would show ORIGINAL Movies that were too heavy for the Prime Time “Movie Of The Week”, but also some other films that were theatrical/drive-in staples (it was via THIS Series that I first saw “CURSE OF THE FLY” in 1972 and–EVERY NAUGHTY KID WHO WAS A NAUGHTY KID STAYED UP FOR THIS ONE–> “PICTURE MOMMY DEAD” [which first aired in ’70 and repeated up to about ’73].).

      3. If I remember correctly, it was made up of primarily some original productions which may have had good ideas, but were super cheap, reruns of The ABC Movie or the Week and episodes of the British series, Thriller. Another of he originals available is, The House and the Brain. This one isn’t an adaption of the Edward Bulwer-Lytton story, but may have been inspired by it.

      5. David Wilke We were “Bad Kids” to stay up to watch THAT ONE. 😂😂 Sadly, I couldn’t stay awake and started to nod off about 1/3rd of the way thru during the original late-night run in ’72. FINALLY got to see the whole thing…as an adult…in ’93 and taking the time to realize that this was the SAME “Bert I. Gordon” who ‘Made People REALLY BIG’🤣, I was freaked out that it was creepfest horror movie. I was kicking my 30-year-old self (at the time) saying, “Damn–I couldn’t stay awake ON THIS in 4th Grade?!?!”🤣😂 (so, yeah, when SHOUT issued that HD BD, damn right I jumped on it.)

      6. Lawrence WiseGood Lord, was Bert I Gordon a terrible producer/director/whatever. I believe his daughter eclipsed him on the strength of her one appearance in The Twilight Zone. Having said that, though (and King Dinosaur was his worst), The Amazing Colossal Man was fun (despite its need to show that scene where Colonel Manning gets cooked alive there times–it appears a fourth time on War of the Colossal Beast) and I have loved The Cyclops since first seeing it after having just turned seven in early 1963. And that closing scene, where the sputtering plane flies away while the fallen Cyclops occupies the foreground of the frame is the one moment of Pure Art that I can ever recall from a Bert I picture.

  9. Does anyone know anybody who has the master to this. It’s been my dream to release on blu-ray. I worked at Deluxe in NJ and the master was in our catalog at some point but went missing. When I approached the Dick Clark people, they said this was not available…GRRRR

  12. My review from 2 years ago:

    GROOVY GHOULIES: a review of THE WEREWOLF OF WOODSTOCK (1975)

    Local hippie-hating hardhat Burt gets all worked up over a news report following the famous concert and goes out in a thunderstorm to find some freaks to harass. But a lightning strike electrocutes him, eventually causing him to periodically transform into a werewolf-like creature. Can two special youth officers (visiting from LA to talk with the Woodstock sheriff about tactics they may need when such enormous concerts come there) figure out what’s going on and put in place a plan to stop it?

    Another day, another WIDE WORLD MYSTERY episode (a mid 70s MFTV movie umbrella series, shot on videotape and now mostly lost to the ages). That this scenario is laughable is obvious, and the shot-on-video/stage set production values don’t help matters any (as much as I’ve found myself being able to look past them in an effort to see a lot more stuff). It’s goofy garbage, honestly, enjoyable in the right mood. You’ve got an acid rock band, the two visiting police experts, assumptions that the briefly glimpsed “hairy” killer is obviously a drugged out hippie, and lots of electric guitar fuzz solos and wah-wah pedals to underscore the werewolf action. It’s almost like if Sid & Marty Kroft directed a live action version of THE GROOVIE GHOULIES.

    The fact that this “werewolf” is a weird-science creation and not supernatural is kinda fun (the police debate whether they need silver bullets) and allows for some variations to the usual (this werewolf has the wherewithal to kidnap a girl and tie her up!). Trying to attract (and stun) him with rock music seems a bit much. Silly fun – a movie that finally answers the question: Can a Werewolf drive a dune buggy? (yes, he can!)

      1. Craig Freeman like IF the famous giant puppet guys (Sid & Marty Krofft) had directed a live action version of the Archies adjacent cartoon The Groovie Ghoulies (ie, not a thing that existed, what such a thing might look like)

      1. Craig Freeman I’m not – you’re the one who brought them up (“Carly Simon” , great song btw). I never mentioned them or referred to them – my comment (joke) was that (I can’t believe I’m explaining this yet again) was that IF they made a live action version of the cartoon, they’d get SId & Marty Krofft to direct it, and it would look like WEREWOLF OF WOODSTOCK. What’s so hard about this?!?

  16. I saw that on WABC. One of those nights when they usually showed In Concert, but occasionally showed something else rock n roll like Alice Coopers Welcome to my Nightmare tv special.
    I think the name of the band was Moon and the lead singer was a guy named Kim Moon. I never heard of them before or after that show.

  18. This was a hilarious movie that we recorded off late nite TV!!! They had some really great stuff at night, like “Beat Girl” ” The Mini Skirt Mob” “etc….I may have it on an ancient VHS tape.

  22. Dick Clark produced this? Maybe it might have fared better if he had cast Frankie Avalon, Fabian, Bobby Rydell, Freddy Cannon, Neil Sedaka, Connie Francis, Chubby Checker, Dee Dee Sharp, The Dovells, and The Orlons and made it into a musical set in Philadelphia and had Kal Mann as the music director!

  25. My dad was cool enough in 1975 to stay up and watch this with me as a 13-year old monster-loving kid. I knew it wasn’t necessarily a good movie, but man, that memory has stayed with me my whole life and now that dad is gone, it means even more.

  27. I did see it on Television when it premiered one night only I thought it was cool & interesting to have it filmed on Videotape format for its time.The Angry Old Guy who becomes the Werewolf who hates the Hippy generation was Actor Tige Andrew’s who was best known for the television series The Mod Squad 1968-1973 and yes he played a Klingon in an episode of Star Trek the original series.

  44. If it was recorded on Videotape in 1975, it would of been a 2 inch format. The tapes were expensive, so chances are it was recorded over which was a common practice at the time. We lost most of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore’s tv series the same way.

      1. Charles HouseIt was–or appeared to be–a movie I saw on the telly set out west in which Chuck Connors encounters a group of young people and soon begins threatening them. I turned it off at the point at which he begins to laugh maniacally and then howl like a wolf. I assumed it was a film, though perhaps it was an episode of the series Werewolf.

  51. DIck also produced a short series of late night movies about a rock band that solved creepy mysteries. The lead singer had very long hair and the only song I remember that they sang included the line “ There’s a full moon out tonight .” The singer also appeared in the audience during an opening Tonight Show segment. Johnny Carson talked to him and asked him questions but it was not connected to his Dick Clark affiliation. As I remember the films were campy but very serious and enjoyable. I seem to remember there was a vampire involved in one of the movies. Very Kolchackesque.
    I have looked for this series with no luck. Does anyone else remember these films?

    1. Bernie DeLeo Very much so. But because of its completely unavailability on physical media, I’ve never seen it. I can recommend, however, THE WEREWOLF OF WASHINGTON, a Watergate-era black comedy horror starring — wait for it — Dean Stockwell as the titular werewolf!! On blu ray!!

  71. Saw it when I was 6. I looked for info on it for years until I finally mentioned it to Eric Caidin of Hollywood Book & Poster who, of course, knew exactly what I was talking about so I finally got a name and explanation as to why very few people knew what it was. RIP Eric 🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼

  75. My brother Graham and I watched this and to this day I think we were the only people we knew that saw it because no one we mention it to has ever heard of it. Cool to see it mentioned here.

  77. We show WEREWOLF OF WOODSTOCK on my wife’s horror host series MANSION OF MYSTERY. It’s literally my favorite Werewolf movie because it’s so bug-nutz loopy. It’s about a hippie girl who hates this werewolf because he killed her dog, but she kinda digs him because he’s a dog. Okay, very over-simplified. At any rate after spending two months to track a copy down and another couple of weeks to clean it up as best I could it’s one of the best episodes of the show. Once we had a good copy I contacted Belinda Balaski and asked if she had a copy of the film. She had not seen since the 70s, and to her knowledge none of the surviving cast/crew had either. Minutes later she had a copy with the directive that she should share it freely as I had, with anyone else she knows of in the cast. She was such a lovely person to deal with, and she indeed was in touch with some of the cast/crew still. The only difference in opinion we had was that I thought this was a better movie than THE HOWLING, but that’s just because this one was so much more EC Comics-like and… well.. goofy.

      1. If you count putting it up on INTERNET ARCHIVE then, yes. You can find both the movie separately and the Mansion of Mystery episode containing it, titled “Regifting Woodstock” there. For Werewolf search by title. For Mansion search for “Mansion of Mystery”. I did not make the film,and I have no ownership to it. I therefore would never stoop to charge for it. It’s public domain, so it is free to watch and to download.

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