John Landis crafts a memorably fun and sometimes frightening werewolf tale with An American Werewolf in London both embracing and lampooning several werewolf cliches. Imagine yourself hearing that a wild animal bite has turned you into a werewolf. How would you react?
Well, you might react a lot like David (David Naughton) when his dead friend (Griffin Dunne) shows up to give him a warning that, during the next full moon, he'll turn into a werewolf and have an insatiable blood lust. Not even the love of a good nurse (Jenny Agutter) can save David and he'll have to kill himself to break the curse and save any number of people he might murder in werewolf form.
This doesn't sound like much of a comedy and it's not in the traditional sense, but the horror is balanced by a welcome amount of humor that keeps things light and also has the advantage of making the horror scenes ever more horrific. The transformation scenes still impress to this day.
Well, you might react a lot like David (David Naughton) when his dead friend (Griffin Dunne) shows up to give him a warning that, during the next full moon, he'll turn into a werewolf and have an insatiable blood lust. Not even the love of a good nurse (Jenny Agutter) can save David and he'll have to kill himself to break the curse and save any number of people he might murder in werewolf form.
This doesn't sound like much of a comedy and it's not in the traditional sense, but the horror is balanced by a welcome amount of humor that keeps things light and also has the advantage of making the horror scenes ever more horrific. The transformation scenes still impress to this day.