• Successfully Involves Viewer in Werewolf’s
Plight • Intelligent Film with High Production Values •
Good Mix of Horror, Humor, and Lyricism
Cons
• No Big-Name or Charismatic Stars •
Special Effects Unimpressive by Today’s Standards • Bonus Features
on DVD Are No Big Whoop
The Bottom Line -
A chilling horror movie that is one of the smartest
films ever made about werewolves.
Product Description
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Horror Film About Werewolves
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Lots of Humor and There’s Also a Love Story
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Location Shooting in England and Wales
Guide Review
"An American Werewolf in London" DVD "An American Werewolf in London"(1981)
is a chilling horror movie that is one of the smartest films ever made about werewolves.
David (David Naughton) and Jack (Griffin Dunne) are two American college-age guys
who are bumming around Europe. One night as they walk under a full moon on a moor
in northern England, they are attacked by a werewolf. Jack is killed and David
is badly mauled. Later, David awakes in a London hospital, where his nurse is
the lovely Alex (Jenny Agutter). David and Alex start to fall in love, and when
David is discharged from the hospital, he moves in with her. Soon there’s a full
moon when David is alone, and he undergoes a painful transformation into a werewolf.
He then goes out into the streets of London and brutally kills six people. The
film goes on to show how all this works out, maintaining its successful mix of
the gruesome and the comic.
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