An American Werewolf in London

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An American Werewolf in London (21-Aug-1981)

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Jenny Agutter Actor 20-Dec-1952 Jessica 6 in Logan's Run

Griffin Dunne Actor 8-Jun-1955 An American Werewolf in London

Rik Mayall Actor 7-Mar-1958 Rick on The Young Ones

David Naughton Actor 13-Feb-1951 An American Werewolf in London

Frank Oz Actor 25-May-1944 Yoda, Miss Piggy, and The Stepford Wives

REVIEWS

Review by Sam Dawson (posted on 19-Feb-2005)

They don't make horror films like this anymore. Even today, nothing much can top John Landis's 1981 classic. The story is of two American backpackers (David Naughton & Griffin Dunne), who arrive in Yorkshire for a three-month European jaunt.

When they are thrown out of a pub, they are going to continue their journey across the moors, when they have an encounter with a mythical beast. After Griffin Dunne's character, Jack Goodman, is half-eaten, and David Naughton's character, David Kessler, is scraped by the creature, it is hunted down and shot -- but it's too late for David.

David wakes up two weeks after the attack, where he befriends a doctor (John Woodvine), a foxy nurse (Jenny Agutter) and after having chilling, realistic dreams, his badly mutilated, dead friend Jack suddenly turns up in the ward David is staying in, and gives him the chilling warning that they were attacked by a werewolf, and that David himself is a werwolf after the attack.

Nevertheless, even though Jack revisits David from beyond the grave a second time, David transforms at the full moon. The future for David looks grim: what will happen in the end?

Highly recommended to anyone with a taste for pure horror.

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