An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Country: GB
Technical: col 97m
Director: John Landis
Cast: David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne, John Woodvine
Synopsis:
A pair of American tourists hiking in England are attacked by a werewolf, and the one who is killed tries to convince his 'bitten' friend to commit suicide before he in turn sheds innocent blood.
Review:
Extraordinarily well judged horror thriller with comic asides, enlivened by an outsider's view of Britain and groundbreaking creature effects. A slow, tense start gives way to a terrifying attack, followed by a further lull before the hero's celebrated first lycanthropic transformation; from then to the end of the movie is but a half-hour of mounting chaos as we gradually, but never quite, lose contact with our principal character. A brilliantly paced script, then, in which the tone at times shifts but which never loses its essential gravitas.
Country: GB
Technical: col 97m
Director: John Landis
Cast: David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne, John Woodvine
Synopsis:
A pair of American tourists hiking in England are attacked by a werewolf, and the one who is killed tries to convince his 'bitten' friend to commit suicide before he in turn sheds innocent blood.
Review:
Extraordinarily well judged horror thriller with comic asides, enlivened by an outsider's view of Britain and groundbreaking creature effects. A slow, tense start gives way to a terrifying attack, followed by a further lull before the hero's celebrated first lycanthropic transformation; from then to the end of the movie is but a half-hour of mounting chaos as we gradually, but never quite, lose contact with our principal character. A brilliantly paced script, then, in which the tone at times shifts but which never loses its essential gravitas.
Country: GB
Technical: col 97m
Director: John Landis
Cast: David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne, John Woodvine
Synopsis:
A pair of American tourists hiking in England are attacked by a werewolf, and the one who is killed tries to convince his 'bitten' friend to commit suicide before he in turn sheds innocent blood.
Review:
Extraordinarily well judged horror thriller with comic asides, enlivened by an outsider's view of Britain and groundbreaking creature effects. A slow, tense start gives way to a terrifying attack, followed by a further lull before the hero's celebrated first lycanthropic transformation; from then to the end of the movie is but a half-hour of mounting chaos as we gradually, but never quite, lose contact with our principal character. A brilliantly paced script, then, in which the tone at times shifts but which never loses its essential gravitas.