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An American Werewolf in London

Lyncanthrope Films

Polygram Pictures

United Kingdom

United States of America

English

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

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

James Payne

John Poyner

Deborah Nadoolman Landis

Elmer Bernstein

Robin Grantham

Malcolm Campbell

Martin Gutteridge

George Folsey Jr.

Robert Paynter

Roy Alon

Leslie Dilley

Joyce Herlihy

Rick Baker

Donald Banks

Greg Powell

Terry Forrestal

Sue Crosland

Clive Curtis

Nick Hobbs

Romo Gorrara

Ken Barker

Rocky Taylor

Sadie Eden

Frank Henson

Doug Robinson

Tracey Eddon

Marc Boyle

Nick Wilkinson

Carl La Fong

Valentino Musetti

Paul Weston

Dickey Beer

Gareth Milne

Tony Smart

Peter Diamond

Ken Sheppard

Billy Horrigan

Arthur Howell

Fred Haggerty

Terence Plummer

Colin Skeaping

Vic Armstrong

John Roberts

Ray Freeborn

Don Sharpe

Peter Guber

Peter Childs

Ian Hickinbotham

Derek Ixer

Michael Clifford

Clive Hartley

Steven Maguire

Ivan Sharrock

Beryl Lerman

Richard Lightman

Len Furey

Bill Hargreaves

Jonathan Lucas

Simon Wakefield

Simon Battersby

Anna Ksiezopolska

Rocky Phelan

Rowland Fowles

Dave Jordan

Keith Pain

Ken Weston

Jon Peters

Roy Benson

Fred Gunning

Jim Passon

David Tringham

Russell Lodge

Maurice Gillett

David Garfath

Debbie McWilliams

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.

CinemaSerf

"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!

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