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An American Werewolf in London (21-Aug-1981)
Director: John Landis Writer: John Landis Keywords: Horror, Werewolf
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
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| Jenny Agutter |
Actor |
20-Dec-1952 |
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Jessica 6 in Logan's Run |
| Griffin Dunne |
Actor |
8-Jun-1955 |
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An American Werewolf in London |
| Rik Mayall |
Actor |
7-Mar-1958 |
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Rick on The Young Ones |
| David Naughton |
Actor |
13-Feb-1951 |
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An American Werewolf in London |
| Frank Oz |
Actor |
25-May-1944 |
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Yoda, Miss Piggy, and The Stepford Wives |
CAST (above the fold) | David Naughton | ... David Kessler | | Jenny Agutter | ... Nurse Alex Price | | Griffin Dunne | ... Jack Goodman | | John Woodvine | ... Dr. J. S. Hirsch | | Lila Kaye | ... Barmaid | | Joe Belcher | ... Truck Driver | | David Schofield | ... Dart Player | | Brian Glover | ... Chess Player | | Rik Mayall | ... 2nd Chess Player | | Sean Baker | ... 2nd Dart Player | | Paddy Ryan | ... 1st Werewolf | | Anne-Marie Davies | ... Nurse Susan Gallagher | | Frank Oz | ... Mr. Collins/Miss Piggy | | Don McKillop | ... Inspector Villiers | | Paul Kember | ... Sgt. McManus |
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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