Quentin Tarantino Geeked Out Over ‘Teen Wolf Too’ When Meeting Jason Bateman

Quentin Tarantino is responsible for some great movies — and one terrible episode of Saturday Night Live — but his taste in other people’s films can be a little surprising. For example, he once sang the praises of Jerry Seinfeld’s unnecessarily horny animated film Bee Movie during a podcast with Bill Maher. 

He’s also a big fan of Jason X, the movie where Jason Voorhees is brought back to life in outer space and brutally murders two teenage girls on a Holodeck.

So it should perhaps come as no surprise that the Pulp Fiction director loves one of the most widely detested comedic sequels of the 1980s: Teen Wolf Too, starring a young, more affordable than Michael J. Fox, Jason Bateman.

Bateman recently guested on the podcast Happy Sad Confused, in which host Josh Horowitz asked if the actor had ever encountered any “unironic” fans of Teen Wolf Too who “were like, ‘That movie changed my life.’”

“He didn’t say it changed his life, but Quentin Tarantino — I was out in the city drinking once years and years and years and years ago, and he came up to me and introduced himself,” Bateman recalled. “I was like, knocked out. He was like, ‘You know what I just saw yesterday? Teen Wolf Too. Great Movie.’”

“And he started going on (about it). We ended up hanging out that night and having fun,” Bateman continued. “But it just goes to show you there’s something in every film for everybody. I’m sure he would not put it on his top ten (list of) all-time favorites, but it was very nice of him to, to bring out some of the things in it that are worthy of — I can’t remember what he said about it, but that was surprising.”

Bateman has previously called Teen Wolf Too “shit” and admitted that it “probably” killed his acting career for a time, which is likely why getting a positive review from an Oscar-winning filmmaker was such a shock to him.

He has also revealed that the prosthetics required for the role weren’t the “ethical” kind used today, and ended up giving him severe chemical burns, which forced the production to shut down for several days.

In addition to Teen Wolf Too, Tarantino has “championed” some other unsung werewolf movies like the 1976 Italian B-movie Werewolf Woman.

Although, as far as we know, there are no other werewolf movies in history that contain a slow motion frisbee scene.