The 1957 horror film, starring Michael Landon as troubled teenager Tony Rivers, was the first of four "teenage monster" movies produced by American International Pictures.

Fangface, highly reminiscent of Scooby-Doo, features four teenagers who travel around in the Wolf-Buggy solving crimes, with the distinction that one of them transforms into a wildly whirling werewolf whenever he looks at the full moon, a picture of the moon, or anything resembling the moon.