This week’s movie is An American Werewolf in London
(1981).
The horror comedy is about David
and Jack, two Americans on vacation in England who come across a small town
with a terrible curse. The film is written and directed by the era’s greatest
comedy director John Landis
(responsible for: The Kentucky
Fried Movie, Animal House,
The
Blues Brothers, Trading
Places, Twilight Zone: The
Movie – prologue and segment one, Thriller music video, Spies Like Us, ¡Three Amigos!, and Coming
to America). Landis worked with composer Elmer Bernstein (whose score is great),
cinematographer Robert Paynter
and production designer Leslie
Dilley. Legend Rick Baker
did the make-up and creature special effects (for which he won an Oscar). David Naughton stars with Griffin Dunne and Jenny Agutter in support (and Rik Mayall from The
Young Ones has a cameo). The film is insane and highly entertaining as it
seems to just perpetually get more and more out of control and silly (in a good
way). It is one of the great cult classics from the 1980s and well worth
watching for fans of horror and horror-comedies. Check out the trailer.
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