Product Description: A new york student becomes the scourge of london after being bitten by a beast on the moors. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 08/23/2005 Starring: David Naughton Mark Fisher Run time: 97 minutes Rating: R Director: John Landis
Amazon.com: Remember back in the early 1980s when special-effects makeup artists were tripping over themselves to create the next big effect? The Howling boasted a fantastic werewolf transformation scene courtesy of makeup wizard Rob Bottin. Then along came Bottin's mentor, Rick Baker, with his own spectacular effects in this popular horror comedy directed by John Landis. An American Werewolf in London is more of a makeup showcase than a truly satisfying movie, but the film is effectively moody when David Naughton discovers that a wolf attack has turned him into a bloodthirsty lycanthrope. Jenny Agutter plays his love interest (watch out, he bites!), and who can forget Griffin Dunne as Naughton's best friend, an undead corpse who progressively rots away as the plot unfolds? All things considered, it's easy to see why An American Werewolf in London became a modern horror favorite. --Jeff Shannon
American Werewolf is Great An American Werewolf in London is one of the best films of the '80s, featuring a great soundtrack and John Landis's renowned special effects (see Michael Jackson's Thriller), long before the age of CG. Purchased on VHS, this movie will last longer than on DVD, where even the slightest scratch can result in skips, chops, and freezes. I recommend this product to everyone.
A Classic werewolf movie! This is such a great movie! One of the best werewolf movies made, I would say. Funny and gruesome! Very cool effects!
GOTTA SEE THIS NEW WAVE HORROR CLASSIC This is a masterpiece of a film by an inspired John Landis who takes a topic done dozens of times before--lycanthropy--and adds a little sauce and spice to the kettle. Here we have a werewolf film with adventure, black comedy, a little flesh [both pressed together and ripped apart to bloody shreds], laughs, "oh-my-Gods" and even pathos. This is a great, imaginative, inventive film with superb special effects that you will never forget, as I haven't since I saw it on the screen in 81. Starts off with a couple of young Americans backpacking it through the spooky European countryside at night. Love the scene where they enter a pub and are welcomed like the plague. Both leave the place and are quickly pounced upon by a werewolf with one guy getting mauled to death and the other, the 'he-shoulda-gone places' David Naughton [who plays David] surviving only to become a murdering werewolf. All hell breaks loose thereafter, as David falls in love during the day, kills by night and constantly bumps into his 'back-from-the-dead' backpack companion, Jack--complete with mauled & ripped flesh. Great cringes and laughs as with each of Jack's post-mortem apperances he is more and more deteriorated until, at the end, he is nothing but skull and fascia. The scene in the theatre when Jack introduces David to each of his deceased, devoured victims, complete with gaping holes and missing limbs, is a beaut. The transformation scene where David turns into a werewolf in his living room is absolutely ASTOUNDING and UNFORGETTABLE---this is an all-time classic horror scene. Cheers to the special effects and make-up pros here. GREAT film-making by John Landis with refreshing originality and a marvelous, astute variation on a sterotypic horror theme. Sorry Naughton didn't become the star he should have. If you haven't seen this one you MUST before the next full moon. Lon Chaney Jr would have been proud of these guys.
Case was broken, dvd was scratched real bad! I will never buy anything from this company AGAIN! They lied stating the dvd was "very good condition" that dvd was not even close to being what they stated, for starters the case where the dvd sits was broken so the dvd just rolls around loose and the dvd itself was scratched real bad!!! I wrote down the companies name so I know who NOT to buy from.
Hello... are you EVER going to ship this item to me??? I never received this DVD from the seller, despite emailing and requesting the courtesy of a response...I have not received either a response or the movie. Guess I'm just out $27.00 with no American Werewolf in my collection. Would not recommend doing business here.
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