As I mentioned last time, some random person had written 3 50s style short films in the early 2000s. The first one produced was 2007’s They Came From The Stars, featured in part the third. The next one produced was I Was A Teenage Wolf-Man, a werewolf film inspired by I Was A Teenage Werewolf starring a young Michael Landon.

This film was produced as a film school project, so the crew was assigned. Another student was assigned to rewrite the script, so it isn’t the same singular vision as previous works, but all of the important things stayed intact. The most important of those being the father, none of his lines were changed. The father character is where the real satire is.

Many locations for the finale were scouted, but an abandoned granite quarry was chosen. To get permission to shoot there the production crew had to go testify before the town council. Once they found out there was a car that was going to be involved they became oddly obsessed with the idea that the car would be sent over the cliff. They were assured that this was an antique car and no such thing would happen.

The editor didn’t finish the final cut until after he had already graduated and moved to LA. So that cut was downloaded from from his youtube account, being marred by the compression rates of the time. This copy was then sent off to the sound editor who had graduated and moved to Oregon.  So the extant version you see here is not the most pristine, but it’s all that exists.

I Was A Teenage Wolf-Man [TRT:00:09:59]