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Summary: must see
Review: This movie is awesome. One of those rare films that is scary, blood, violent, and...funny! The special effects seem kind of out of date by today's standards, but they still seem great. The special effects in this movie aren't that computer stuff (ex. american werewolf in paris) but the real stuff! It is cool to watch because it's not that "silver bullet through the heart" movie. As Jack puts it, "Get Real!" The transformation is great to watch! It wasn't just "it's a full moon automatic change." But it is so great to see how he morphs into this creature. I reccomend this to any horror movie fan, as well a sci-fi, or people just looking for a good movie!
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Summary: Funny, Scary, Bloody, Hairy.
Review: Watch this movie for three reasons: the great makeup talents of Rick Baker, the witty lines that sprawl from the mouths of the undead, and the awesome, gruesome, truly scary ending. Not many scenes in horror movies scare me, but seeing "David" in full, howling transformation made me gasp for air. Some scenes, like when David was in the hospital, could have moved along better, but all-in-all I really dug this film. Don't let your kids watch it.
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Summary: FORGET THE HOWLING, THIS IS THE REAL WOLF DEAL!!!!!!!
Review: I love the fact that this movie was directed by John Landis. John's directed Animal House, Trading Places, Oscar and Coming to America. Seeing as how his buisness is Comedy, he shares this horror/comedy film which is without any doubt THE greatest werewolfer of all time. The only other werewolf pic I really liked was Silver Bullet, and American Werewolf just kicked that one aside. I love this movie. I loved the bitter sweetness of it. I loved the characters. I loved the music(even though I listen to Korn And Deftones). This is a wicked a** movie that kicks a** in every way. I loved the ending which was absolutely perfect(no fuss no muss). A really beautiful movie. See it!
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Summary: Just try walking in the moors after this one...
Review: My first ever time: Ten years old, at a friends house. Friend has video that parents have unsuspectingly left lying about. "Let's watch the movie!". So we did.Surprisingly enough, I am not scarred for life as a result. Nor do I feel the need to hurt or injure people as a result of watching this movie. I must be one of those people who can seperate fact and fiction...I meander... All I can remember from that first viewing was the absolute sheer terror I felt when the original werewolf stalks the two men on the moors. This level of terror did not abate throughout the entire film, always knowing what might happen, never expecting it til the last moment. Since then, I have seen the film countless times, and it still rates as one of my classic all time horror favourites. This is the pinacle of the werewolf story (yes, I know, the Howling was good...but that was always riddled with a sexuality which I felt didn't fit into the werewolf mystique). My only critique of the film is the change of the transformation - of the two times you see it, the second time (in the theatre), the claws sprout through his fingers, where as they grew from his fingers in the first one. That's picky. Guess it's all I could knock it on. Buy it for yourself. Just don't let the kids watch it...
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Summary: Excellent werewolf flick
Review: what makes this movie so good,is the ability to get to know the man BEHIND the wolf. Phenominal special FX really keep your eyes popped and your mouth dropped....you really feel for naughton
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Summary: A true comedy horror.
Review: This is the original comedy-horror movie. The movie is a comedy, and it's funny, but it isn't silly the way most comedy-horrors are. The movie is also somewhat scary, too, and the excellent ending has to be seen to be believed! The only problem with this movie was that it was remade into the craptastic An American Werewolf in Paris.
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Summary: Trendsetting, Groundbreaking and Jawdropping monster movie..
Review: A bright, witty mix of gruesome horror and campy comedy with some truly memorable scares, one transformation scene that has to be seen to be believed and a some truly disgusting make-up effects. Naughton and Dunne are excellent but even John Landis sly direction doesn't hold a candle to Rick Baker's showstopping F/X. A great watch.
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Summary: This was the funniest horror movie I have ever seen!
Review: The comedy in this movie was what made it one of the greats, you couldn't ask for a better time from a film. If you enjoy to laugh as your being scared than this is your movie, I'll go out on a limb and say this was a better movie than the original Nightmare on Elm Street.
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Summary: The Landis veiw of warewolf is a very good one.
Review: Landis ah "ware" to begin? A very good director who can put a horror warewolf movie with David Naughton in it in one? LANDIS.
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Summary: This Movie Knows How to Scare the Bejabbers Out of You!
Review: Was it the poet John Keats who said something like in"truth there is beauty". Well, "An American Werewolf inLondon" shows what truly is scary, and in many ways that truth is so realistic, horrifying and downright macabre that there is a sense of complex beauty portrayed. Director John Landis is extremely underrated, and this film is perhaps the most overlooked bit of genius I've ever watched. The one seen which will probably scare the hell out of you is when there is a dream sequence of running through the woods and you see a hospital bed. I won't tell you what happens but the fear that is evoked in that seen overwhelms anything ever shown. Remember in "Jaws" when Richard Dreyfuss goes underwater to search the wrecked hull of a ship and the dead body of a man suddenly appears out of nowhere? For me, that scene pales in comparison to "Werewolf's" frights. As I said, I think Landis really thought hard about what would frighten someone and he put it into this film. For instance the flashback to David Naughton's family in America is interrupted with a hellish sound of incessant, nonstop banging coming from the front door. When the father answers it, lo and behold, but a group of Werewolves dressed up as Nazis begins stabbing everything in sight. Another, revolutionary scare tactic is the sound interruptions used when the werewolf prowls the streets (after his awesome "beautifully realistic" tranformation). Right when you think the wolf is going to jump out and rip someone to pieces, Landis cuts to a "horrifying" scene and sound of a train passing by, or a lion roaring in the zoo Naughton awakes in. Another important idea is the humorous "twists" added to the story. The detective who is completely inept at many things, knocks over a set of bedpans arranged like a china doll (one inside the other), as he tries to put these pans in the right order (with the doctor's watching) you think to yourself-this is so weird, why is this happening, this is funny, but is something horrible goin to happen. And thats what is terribly frightening about this movie, we never know when something greatly moving, funny or horrifying will occur. I think part of this could be paralleled to the fact that Naughton is an outsider to England. From the first scenes of those horrifying moors we hear the wonderfully eerie tune of "Blue Moon". Naughton and Dunne truly are like Samuel Clemens' "Conneticut Yankees in King Arthur's Court"-outsiders to a strange world...This is a great film. I recommend it very highly (if you haven't noticed).
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