Full Moon High (1981) **1/2
Like almost every Larry Cohen film, Full Moon High (1981) is sloppy and struggles to find an identity, but has a certain charm in its chaos. I don't know what it was about 1981, but everyone was making werewolf movies that year—first Joe Dante with The Howling (review) in March, then Wolfen (review) in July, followed by John Landis' An American Werewolf In London (review) in August, and finally FMH trailing last (in quality as well) in October.
Cohen appears to aim for updating 1957's I Was A Teenage Werewolf with Airplane! (1980) and Animal House (1978) style humor (and FMH did beat Teen Wolf to the punch by four years). But the lack of cohesion (he really did just seem to film random shots, apparently worry about editing later, and I have to wonder how much of a script there was for this one) makes many of the jokes fall flat. Still, there are some laughs and goofy fun to be had in this, the only film of his that I've seen (so far) that was a straight up comedy with no social commentary.
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