Just a really fun and seamless mix of comedy and horror that totally lives up to its reputation, especially that phenomenally cool and terrifyingly painful transformation scene. Outside of that though, there's still tons of genre goodness: love the mysterious pub full of steel-eyed townspeople, love the lyrically blunt soundtrack, love how British it can be ("A naked American man stole my balloons.") Even poor-man's-Harold-Ramis David Naughton can't distract from the fun.

It all starts with two friends ending up in a village as they get dropped off somewhere close to London and they end up in a pub. So as they enter and they start having fun cracking jokes and all that then one of the guy noticed a star on the wall of the pub and decided to ask what it was about that's when everyone in the pub goes pin drop silence after this these two guys were sent out of the pub and was told to stay on the road. So while going back this boys thought those men in the pub were crazy or were they not????? Find this out by watching the movie This story was made really good with all the scares in the needed areas nothing was overdone. I felt the movie got over really fast as I needed more to it.I would recommend this movie to anyone I know.Notable ActingDavid Naughton Jenny Agutter famous for her acting in movies like The Avengers and Captain AmericaGriffin Dunne famous for his acting Dallas buyers clubJohn Woodvine My Rating 9/10

Plot; Two young Americans backpacking across Europe are attacked by a creature, leaving one of them dead and the other irrevocably changed.Despite its lofty status (and the fact it ran on a loop on TV in the 80s), I'd somehow managed to never watch An American Werewolf in London. For sure horror isn't my favorite genre, but I knew of its comedic counterweight and that's a combination that would seemingly appeal to me. 36 years later, on a recommendation from the great 80s All Over podcast, I finally gave it a go. I'm glad I did.Deftly balancing the horror with the comedy, Landis uses one to enhance the other. It's a very fine line, and he and his cast walk it expertly. The script is snappy and there's no wasted motion in its tight hour and a half runtime. The cast all acquit themselves well, with David Naughton making for a likable and sympathetic lead, the impossibly beautiful Jenny Agutter breathing life into what could've been a thankless role, and Griffin Dunne stealing every scene he's in as Naughton's undead best friend.The end feels a bit too sudden, but I was both surprised and impressed by the direction Landis went and it gives the film a weight and poignancy.I love it when I'm rewarded for going back and watching an older film that I'd previously ignored or otherwise missed. This may have been the first time, but it won't be the last, that I watch An American Werewolf in London.

Greetings Fans, Of all the Myths and Legends in the world, I sometimes side with the Werewolf, I'm Pretty Sure you know already know about the Lycan Legends, If you get bitten by these things is you Survive an encounter, You become cursed to Turn into one when the Fullmoon is up at night, And it happened in our little country of England in London in a Movie that is... Kinda true to the legends, An American Werewolf in London, That's right guys I'm Reviewing another Universal movie that was released back in 1981 (The beginning of the 80's) Directed by a man named John Landis the guy who did a movie I never seen before Animal House, But this is a different kind of Animal, The Monster effects in this to be truthful is very good, so good this movie won an Academy Award and Oscar for Best Make Up, Well this was done by one man named Rick Baker, Looking up this guy on Wikipedia shows that he has done quite a lot, Some notable work such as the Alien Designs in the Men in Black Movies, the 2001 version of Planet of the Apes, Schlock (Something from the Beginning of his Movie Make Up Job life) Star Wars (The First one) Hellboy and he also did the Make Up effects on the 2010 remake of The Wolfman, So yeah he is a Monster Make Up Artist (Almost forgot, He also did Make Up effects on The Grinch) I own this movie on Blu-Ray and... I don't know what to say about this Werewolf movie, Don't get me wrong It's an alright film, The Werewolf Transformation is Amazing and somewhere creepy, But Rick Baker did a Fantastic job on it, To my opinion it's just on of them Comedy Horror films that resembles a B-Movie, Ofcause what was done here was amazing, Some of the story elements in this are similar to the Original Wolfman movie that was released in 1941 (the one staring Lon Chaney, Jr) The 1941 Wolfman is what a lot Lycan movie nerds claim that American Werewolf took ideas from it, It was rumored that American Werewolf was at one point an Wolfman Remake, but since, Universal wanted this to be a B-Movie tip and The Original Wolfman is a Classic, They left in a bunch of the Ideas, There is a Sequel to this movie called An American Werewolf in Paris released in 1997 (Some year as Batman & Robin), But since it wasn't a very interesting movie due to it receiving Negative Reviews I'm skipping it for the time being, All n All, This was a alright film.