David Naughton

Jenny Agutter

Griffin Dunne

John Woodvine

Don McKillop

Brian Glover

David Schofield

Lila Kaye

Rik Mayall

Sean Baker

Frank Oz

Paul Kember

Joe Belcher

Paddy Ryan

Anne-Marie Davies

Colin Fernandes

Albert Moses

Jim Henson

Dave Goelz

Michele Brisigotti

Mark Fisher

Gordon Sterne

Paula Jacobs

Claudine Bowyer

Johanna Crayden

Nina Carter

Geoffrey Burridge

Brenda Cavendish

Christopher Scoular

Mary Tempest

Cynthia Powell

Sydney Bromley

Frank Singuineau

Will Leighton

Michael Carter

Elizabeth Bradley

Rufus Deakin

Lesley Ward

George Hilsdon

Gerry Lewis

Dennis Fraser

Alan Ford

Peter Ellis

Denise Stephens

Christine Hargreaves

Lucien Morgan

Dave Cooper

Susan Spencer

Bob Babenia

Ken Sicklen

John Salthouse

John Altman

Keith Hodiak

John Owens

Roger Rowland

Linzi Drew

John Cannon

George Oliver

John Landis

Simon van Collem

George Folsey Jr.

Debbie McWilliams

Malcolm Campbell

Elmer Bernstein

Robert Paynter

Leslie Dilley

Joyce Herlihy

Martin Gutteridge

Robin Grantham

Deborah Nadoolman Landis

Roy Alon

John Poyner

Rick Baker

Donald Banks

Greg Powell

Terry Forrestal

Gareth Milne

Sue Crosland

Doug Robinson

Carl La Fong

Fred Haggerty

Clive Curtis

Nick Hobbs

Marc Boyle

Terence Plummer

Rocky Taylor

Dickey Beer

Sadie Eden

Billy Horrigan

Romo Gorrara

Ken Barker

Peter Diamond

Arthur Howell

Tony Smart

Paul Weston

Valentino Musetti

Tracey Eddon

Frank Henson

Ken Sheppard

Nick Wilkinson

Colin Skeaping

Vic Armstrong

John Roberts

Ray Freeborn

Jon Peters

Simon Battersby

Fred Gunning

Ken Weston

Len Furey

Clive Hartley

Beryl Lerman

Derek Ixer

Ivan Sharrock

Michael Clifford

Ian Hickinbotham

Keith Pain

Steven Maguire

Anna Ksiezopolska

Rocky Phelan

Rowland Fowles

Roy Benson

Peter Childs

Don Sharpe

Dave Jordan

Peter Guber

Richard Lightman

Bill Hargreaves

Jonathan Lucas

Simon Wakefield

An American Werewolf Collection

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An American Werewolf in London

American Werewolf Inc.

Lyncanthrope Films

Universal Pictures

Guber/Peters Company

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United States of America

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dying and death

london, england

intensive care

nurse

loss of loved one

transformation

full moon

black humor

london underground

yorkshire

rural area

werewolf

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british pub

dream sequence

hikers

london zoo

practical special effects

incredulous

foreboding

horrified

Potential Kermode

**The best horror film of the eighties**

This is a gem, it really is. Alternately amusing and horrific - John Landis plays our emotions like a fiddle here. He is pulling all the strings and we are uncertain as to which string he is going to pull next.

From the eerie Yorkshire countryside of the opening scenes through David's _awful_ nightmares in hospital to amusing zombie chit chat and finally the climactic slaughter in London - this film never lets up.

How many films will you find Kermit the frog sharing a scene with throat slicing, machine gun wielding mutants dressed as Nazis?

- Potential Kermode

Matthew Brady

"Beware the moon, lads."

Still frightening and funny 38 years later.

The transformation scene was absolutely incredible, but also really painful. You literally hear every bone crack in his body, and all his organs reshaping and shifting. No other werewolf movie has topped that scene and never will. The song Bad Moon Rising is the icing on the cake.

Rick Baker make-up work is masterful. He's the real beast here.

An 80s horror classic!

The storyline was well written, the special effects were amazing, and Jenny Agutter was so sexy!

Although the ending was a bit rushed - just like the Wolfman, the main character dies, and the film ends, just like that! 
What's more messed up is they play an upbeat song during the end credits, right after we see David's lifeless body.

The ending is my one critique. The rest of the movie was pretty good.

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"David" (David Naughton) and his pal "Jack" (Griffin Dunne) are taking a walking tour of the UK when they decide to stop off at a pub. They are about as welcome as a dose of the clap and after a few minutes banter with the natives decide they are better off walking. The thing is, those inside know how dangerous it's about to be out there - and the boys soon find out. It's "David" who wakes up in hospital, replete with some mysterious scratch marks, nightmares and claiming that they were attacked by a brutal hound. Nobody really believes him, and anyway his attention is quickly diverted by nurse "Alex" (Jenny Agutter) whom he visits for dinner and never leaves. Luckily she works nights, else she might have discovered that her beau doesn't just stop at a bit of gentle biting. With corpses piling up around London, he is at a loss to know where he goes at night (waking up naked in the wolf enclosure at the zoo might be the final straw) but try as he might, he can't engage the authorities with his claims. Maybe only doctor "Hirsch" (John Woodvine) believes that something unusual is amiss - but can he help before "David" does himself or anyone else more damage! Increasingly more often naked as he goes along, Naughton joins in with the spirit of this enjoyable comedy horror with enthusiasm. I wonder what might happen now if a naked man in a bush even mentioned a boy's balloons!? It runs out of steam a little at the end, and Agutter's acting never really evolved much from the "Railway Children" 1970) but the visual effects work quite well especially when the full moon rises!

An American Werewolf in London( 1981)

From the director of Animal House... a different kind of animal.

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Written by Potential Kermode on Tue Feb 14 2017

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