The Werewolf of Woodstock

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name = The Werewolf of Woodstock


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director = John Moffitt
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released = 1975
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country = U.S.A.
language = English
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imdb_id = 0179510

The Werewolf of Woodstock is a 1975 film directed by John Moffitt.

Plot summary

After Woodstock has ended, a hippie-hating farmer (Tige Andrews) gets turned into a werewolf when he gets a massive jolt of electricity from a leftover piece of equipment one of the bands left behind, and that he was trying to destroy. The family doctor bandages him up and recommends lots of bedrest, but during the very next electrical storm he transforms into a wild-looking werewolf with REALLY poofy hair. A small amateur hippie band shows up at the Woodstock site, intending to record an album on the stage where famous rock icons had performed (and thus be able to stick a label on their demo tape saying "filmed lived at Woodstock"), and quickly begin to have run-ins with not only the local police, but also the hippie-hating werewolf. First, their dog is attacked and killed by the creature, and later the young girl is kidnapped by the beast, and locked away in an abandoned building. The farmer keeps transforming during electrical storms (which, for some bizarre reason occur EVERY night), and nobody realizes what's going on (when he returns home he apparently reapplies his bandages in some sort of freaky somnambulist state) until one night he transforms in front of his wife. Two "big city" detectives, sent to monitor the goings-on at Woodstock (played by Meredith Macrae and Michael Parks)have already figured out a werewolf is involved in all these murders (the werewolf had already murdered a policeman in the area, in addition to the dog, and then finishes up by murdering the family doctor), and now that they know who the werewolf is they form a plan of attack which involves luring the creature out into the open with the one the thing it hates most, rock music, and then confusing it long enough to tranquilize it and capture it. The plan fails, and the werewolf runs back to the abandoned building, grabs the girl, and escapes with her in a dunebuggy (yes, you read correctly, the werewolf steals, and drives away in, a dunebuggy), and a chase follows. The dunebuggy-driving werewolf ends up at a power station, where the young male detective chases him up the metalwork. His female partner arrives with a newly made silver bullet, and as the werewolf attempts to kill the detective at the top of the power station, the sheriff shoots at it from the ground, and the werewolf falls to his death. The film was produced for television by Dick Clark's old production company. It is so wild and so bad that it is, in fact, brilliant, and must be seen to be believed.

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*imdb title|id=0179510|title=The Werewolf of Woodstock