An American Werewolf In London (1981)

My Rating 8.5/10


An American Werewolf In London is one of those comical horror films that I enjoy the most! It was directed by John Landis, Landis tried to make An American Werewolf In London very bloody, gory and scary but, also he made it really funny as well. An American Werewolf In London is about two American students are on a walking tour of England and are attacked by a Werewolf. One is killed, the other is mauled. The Werewolf is killed, but reverts to it's human form, and the townspeople are able to deny it's existence. The surviving student begins to have nightmares of hunting on 4 feet at first, but then finds that his friend and other recent victims appear to him, demanding that he find a way to die to release them from their curse, being trapped between worlds because of their unnatural death.

An American Werewolf In London had some scenes that were funny, scenes that were scary, and scenes that were just plainly disgusting. Theres this one scene were David is lying down in his hospital bed and the nurse goes to look at him and David turns into this freakish looking zombie werewolf with yellow eyes and pale blue skin. It caught me be surprise and scared me. Theres also another scene were David is looking at his breakfast meal and looks back at his pal Jack who is already dead and he asks for a piece of David's toast.

There was the best scene in the whole film of An American Werewolf In London and that is when there is a full moon out and David starts his transformation from turning from a human to a werewolf. It is so crazy and you have to feel sorry for David while he is turning to a werewolf because he can't control himself. The transformation was done very well and it looked so realistic.

The ending scene in An American Werewolf In London is awesome. It starts off with David returning into his state of being a werewolf and he is in a porn theater and he starts to kill and murder people that are in the theater. Meanwhile police show up and there trying to keep the huge door closed for the werewolf until he busts open the door and causes a rampage. People are getting hit by cars and cars are crashing into buses and it is just pandemonium. Until in the end the Nurse who took care of David goes to the werewolf know as David and she tells him that he loves him and he can get help. Suddenly he screams and shouts and he gets shot by the police and turns back to a human while he is dead. The Nurse whos named Alex starts to cry and they cut to credits. It was a great scene to end the film.

An American Werewolf In London won a few awards such as an Oscar, another 2 wins & 2 nominations. It also got #42 for Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments. An American Werewolf was a great horror flick and will always be remember by people who loved it such as myself.

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