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...that element of the public which ascribes juve delinquency to crime pix and the harmful effect of horror pix on the young mind." Among the dissenters: Dr. Martin Grotjahn, associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Southern California School of Medicine, who thinks that / Was a Teenage Werewolf, Blood of Dracula, etc. provide a means of "self-administered psychiatric therapy for America's adolescents.'' His cathartic argument: "Certain childhood anxieties never die. Fear of ghosts, fear of witches, fear of the dark, the sinister and the mysteriously terrible-these stay with the adolescent. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Catharsis | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

...Roach Jr., 39, is president (his father, 66, is a director) of Hal Roach Studios, which now produces TV films. ¶ Gene Fowler Jr., 40, a film editor for nearly 20 years, last year directed I Was a Teenage Werewolf, is now producing and directing Paramount's I Married a Monster from Outer Space. Father Gene Fowler, 68, oldtime cirrhosis-be-damned newsman and biographer of the John Barrymore era, wrote Barrymore's biography (Good Night, Sweet Prince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Second Generation | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...another scientist and says, sneaky-like: "I plan to assemble a human being." His friend is horrified. "But, Professor Frankenstein, you can't-" Oh yes, he can, and what's more, he plans to make a teen-age monster. After all, I Was a Teenage Werewolf was a howling success at the box office last year. Explains the mad scientist: "Only in youth is there hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 10, 1958 | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

...sequel to I Was a Teenage Werewolf, IWATF will probably rank as one of the year's biggest horrors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 10, 1958 | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

...there is plenty of room at the bottom (said one flabbergasted distributor: "I don't get it; I can't even stand to look at the stills"), the next step in low, lowbrow cinema was a marriage of the undead with the underdone: I Was a Teenage Werewolf (Herman Cohen; American-International). Plot synopsis: a mad psychiatrist turns a sensitive adolescent into a hairy, ravening beast. Says 30-year-old Producer Cohen: "I heard that 62% of the movie audience was between 15 and 30, and I knew that the movies that were grossing well were horror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shock Around the Clock | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

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