One of the films I was most excited about when I was a kid, was American Werewolf In London. Growing up their weren't a whole lot of great werewolf movies around, I never liked the 'wolf-man' style werewolf because his make up for the most part always felt like a cop out to me and I wanted werewolves to be monsters, big horrible creatures of the night. American Werewolf was one of the first films to give us that.Two American tourists are attacked by a large animal whilst backpacking across the moors. One is killed, the other wakes in hospital to find himself close to completely recovered. Befriending his nurse he soon finds himself with a place to stay in England's Capital. However as the full moon rises he begins a horrifying transformation into a vicious beast that is set on terrorising the city.
It no secret that this film was ground breaking, the visual effects contained midway into the film are simply stunning and changes the way most filmmakers thought about psychical effects for the rest of the 80's. The film also contains some of the most amazing werewolf animatronics committed to film.
It's a pretty great movie that usually finds itself on top scary movie lists due to its weird Nazi werewolf sequence that ends with a pretty well done jump scare, but people forget that it is actually a horror comedy. A lacklustre follow up was produced in 1995 which I really enjoyed, it has nothing on the original but it was pretty solid and very funny, although I'm aware that is an unpopular opinion.
See You Tomorrow
MJ
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