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An American Werewolf in London - Patreon Version (Patreon)

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Odd Thomas

Other good British horrors: Censor Ghost Stories The Woman in Black Sunshine Triangle Saint Maud

JakeyShakeyBakeyBoy

Great movie and one of the kings of a “yep that’s it” ending that comes to mind. Rick Baker’s the goat of movie makeup for sure. The only other John Landis film I can think of that’s left for y’all to react to is The Three Amigos, considering you’ve done most of his films already! The Three Amigos is a delight and very much recommended.

Jacob King

Canadian Werewolf: Ginger Snaps!! Werewolf as a metaphor for menstruation: Ginger Snaps!!!

Odd Thomas

The sequel An American Werewolf in Paris is awful, but I must admit it was a guilty pleasure for me as a teen (mostly for Julie Delpy)

Odd Thomas

It was pretty common for a production company to be created specifically for one film. I think it's a tax thing.

Jay Davis

Here in 'Murica, we call it Flat Earth. #can'tproveotherwise

Odd Thomas

The guy in the pub is Brian Glover; he's also in Alien 3 so another reason to watch it!

BlakeK80DrumCovers

Ok, so this is the one for me. The one movie above all others that i've been praying for Simone & George to react to. I must have seen this movie dozens of times throghout my life. It traumatised me as a child who snuck into the livingroom past my bedtime to see what all the howling was about on the TV... Just as Jack was being torn apart... LOL. I had nightmares for weeks, but when i was old enough i watched the full movie and i immediately fell in love with it!

MacGuffinStuff

One of the classics! Love this movie. I'm more of a werewolf guy, vampires are kind of too posh for me, and there are only a few great werewolf movies, this is probably the most iconic since the OG Lon Chaney movies. "WOLF" with Jack Nicholson and Michelle Pfeiffer is probably my second favorite, "Dog Soldiers" is also great, and "Silver Bullet", an okay Stephen King adaptation. BTW don't know if you caught it, but the cab driver was Brick Top from Snatch.

E. D.

I knew that George will love the transformation scene, it‘s really well done. ps: the actor who plays the main character‘s friend is the teacher in My Girl ps2: legs are like sets in tennis

E. D.
>>140922167

During watching the movie I couldn‘t tell where I know him from

punterjoe

If you enjoyed this, you'll probably like Innocent Blood. It's a similar horror/comedy film - only with vampires. Also from John Landis btw.

Twiska Brand

If you want another good werewolf movie, I subject Dog Soldiers.

Spacedone

'See You Next Wednesday' is a John Landis running gag throughout his movies, usually referring to a different kind of movie each time. He took it from a line in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Also, this may mean nothing to you but one of the people playing chess in The Slaughtered Lamb was a young Rik Mayall, one of the UK's favourite comic actors of the 80s and 90s, starring in The Young Ones, The Comic Strip, Bottom and making great cameos in shows like Blackadder as Lord Flashheart.

William Burnham

Frank Oz = The American Consulate official Also the voice of Miss Piggy Also a police officer in Trading Places And the Lawyer who reads the Will in Knives Out 😊😊😊😊😊

gobmob2000

I'm half German and in German Earth is Erde which in English mean "This all belongs to us"... No I'm kidding it just means Earth/soil like in Engish :D

Tony E Crumpton

Mr. Collins, the man from the American Embassy you guys felt was rude in the hospital, is played by none other than Frank Oz, the voice of Yoda, Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzy Bear, and many others. Then later you can see some of his voice work in the dream sequence when David's back home and his little sister is watching Sesame Street on TV. Also, See You Next Wednesday is a running gag in all of John Landis’ movies. The title pops up in fake movie posters or gets mentioned in all of his films, but it isn’t always a porn movie.

Tony E Crumpton
>>140919256

I love every movie on this list. Censor is one of my new fave horror films, and I'm glad to see someone else giving it some love. Then again, someone going by the handle of Odd Thomas (I'm a fan of the books and feel the movie is highly underrated) would dig some deep-cut horror movies.

David N

Everytime I hear anyone say Werewolf I have to supress the urge to blurt out 'there, wolf'.

Odd Thomas

I think G&S should watch at least one muppet movie. Not knowing who Frank Oz or Jim Henson is is like not knowing who Gandhi and Elvis are. Side note; there's an excellent Jim Henson documentary on Disney+

MattyWolf

So so happy you guys reacted to this absolute classic! :D I believe I read somewhere that John Landis regrets certain things about this film, the abrupt ending in particular, which I believe was due to time constraints. He felt that transformation scene should have been much shorter but just couldn't cut it because he was so impressed. A remake was proposed recently but was just not meant to be.

Happy Birthday Monica!!

George has never seen the Muppets??? You gotta start watching the Muppet movies starting with The Muppet Movie of course

China Andronicus

Rick Baker won the first ever Academy Award for makeup for this film. Much deserved. I honestly think the ending of this film is perfect. With a movie that’s such a brilliant combination of comedy and horror, I don’t think belaboring the point would have added anything to it. To this day, one of my favorite films, and one of my favorite movie soundtracks.

FischerMax98

Very fun reaction to a classic movie. How about some "Ginger Snaps" or "The Howling" love? Both great werewolf films.

Monica Alarcon

Thanks for the Happy Birthday wishes George!!

David Lonewolf Wright

This is the first time I caught that joke from the beginning said by David shortly after getting out of the sheep truck, "I will miss ewe!" It feels like they were really forcing in songs that referenced the moon in some way with delightful results.

Mark Barger

The title is taken from the classic, “A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur’s Court” which is about an American stranded in England. The nurse Alex even reads from it to David in the hospital.

Opti_Frog

As good as American Werewolf is, i prefer the other werewolf movie released the same year: The Howling.

sarCC
>>140937082

It's pretty crazy he regrets things about this movie...but not The Twilight Zone movie 😬

Joe

Please watch Dog Soldiers. It's so much fun. I'm going to keep asking for it hoping they'll eventually watch it.

Patrick

That coughing on a bus reminded me of an episode of "An Idiot Abroad" when Karl goes on a bus in China to head to the Great Wall, and so many people are coughing and spitting into bags.

Joe

David didn't get out of the hospital. There aren't woods with deer in them in the middle of London. And no, there are no longer any wolves in the UK.

FranciscoGios

When I first watched Werewolf in London, I was entertained from beginning to end. The transformation of the werewolf and making it a dark grey color was a top idea by the creators.

deskmerc

Mentioning the "has this ever happened to you" question about everyone stopping to look at you when you enter a pub, yes. I was stationed in Germany during the time of reunification, and as soon as we were allowed to venture into the former East German countryside we did so, in groups. One gasthaus in a small nameless berg was filled with, shall we say, geriatric World War 2 vets missing various limbs and looking none too happy at our arrival. We left before someone could dig out a rusty MG42 and mow us all down.

Jethro Divine

All these comments about Muppets makes me want to recommend Meet the Feebles (1989) as an alternative. Directed by Peter Jackson I believe. Delightful.

droodly
>>140927295

Also did the puppet work and voice for Yoda in some of the Star Wars :)

lovemoose

Fun fact, John Landis directed the music video for michael jackson's thriller and rick baker did the special effects for the werewolf. I just learned this a couple weeks ago so i was pleasantly surprised to see you guys react to the movie that inspired the music video!

JediLounger

So everyone has suggested lots of other great werewolf movies, and I support all of them, but no one has said anything about some bad ones. The Underworld (2003-2016) movies are prime targets for Cinecringe, you guys will love (hate) them. I find all of them very fun to watch, as they know what they are and make no apologies for it. They slather on the melodrama, practically drowning in it. Several have unrated cuts, the first one in particular is notable for having different or extended VFX shots and more violence.

Bennett Holleman

Third stage decomposing Jack would not be able to pronounce most of those words correctly since he has no lips.

Logan Kerlee

lmao, I'm with you on that Simone. I don't like coughing in public either. I'm not feeling super healthy but I'm not sick either. I've got no idea what that word would be George. HUGE props on how you pronounced Uranus. So many people just say UrANUS and it's maddening. xD I'm also interested in learning other people's views/takes on all that. :) I'm glad Simone has some background with Buffy. Personally, I have none with that show/series. I watched Angel as a kid but that's it. HAHAHAHHAHAHA, GEORGE!! I love you, man! xD hahahahahaha, you're the best! Comparing werewolves to menstruating women. xD LUL Super enjoying your takes on things before the movie! hahahaha, ya'll are awesome. hahahahhahaha, WOW! George you're fucking awesome. lmao - xD "Breaks down after 3 months" This movie is pretty quick, yeah. Hour thirty seven minutes is a quick watch. I quit commenting as I was watching there - now at the end - holy shit, AWESOME MOVIE!! I had such a fun time watching this. lmao, c'mon Simone and George, the title isn't absolutely serious. xD TriviaWolf works! I mega enjoyed the fun that everybody had while making this. Everybody was cheerful. :) xD That cat hissing was such a cool shot. An American Werewolf in Paris as a threat is awesome! :P I'm glad that this movie was made! I really enjoyed watching it with you both. :)

Aaron M

The tone of this movie is weird, but it does have some memorable moments.

Jeb Manning

Now that you've reacted to this, I'm begging you guys to react to the original 1941 version of The Wolfman. It's one of the best Universal Monster movies and one of the best classic horror films. It's pretty much the movie that made werewolves popular and set the bar for what a werewolf movie should be. It inspired and influenced so many future werewolf movies. It's also my favorite horror movie and my favorite movie of all time. Just a great, timeless tragedy of a good man becoming a werewolf. I love the story, the writing, the acting, the effects work, and everything about The Wolf Man. I could just go on and on and on about every detail I love. It would make for such a great reaction.

GBmain

I couldn't find a single other culture that didn't refer to the planet as Ground, Land, Soil or some derivative thereof… Interesting… I like the Chinese translation of 'Ground Ball'… guess there's not a lot of flat-earthers in China 😄 Edit: The Planets that are visible to the naked eye seem to have been named after Gods in nearly all cultures. China named them after elements, and Chinese influence on other east Asian countries like Japan & Korea means they also adopted their naming conventions. Secondary edit lol: It's surprising how many cultures independently associate Mars with a god of war or a symbol of war. Or Saturn with Harvest or Time.. weird.. Thanks for the rabbit-hole George, I'm about to go Graham Hancock on this...

Skippy Sunshine

I've loved this movie since first discovering it in the mid 90's. It was the first time I saw humour successfully merged with horror. I could not (and still can't) believe they achieved that fricken sensation transformation scene in 1981! So glad you appreciated the humour and the gear changes. Besides the overthinking of the title(!), I think you might have been ignoring the lore that after the 3 full moon days, a werewolf essentially returns to being a normal human being i.e. is not a werewolf until next full moon.

djKENTO

Ordered the 4K blu-ray restoration and I'm waiting for it to arrive before I watch this with yall... but it's delayed in transit. Annoyed. Can't wait to see what you thought.

Jack Urmson

The script for the movie began when John Landis and Rick Baker were in Europe working on another movie 10 years earlier. While filming, Landis and Baker witnessed a gypsy funeral where the gypsies buried a body head first. When Landis asked why, the gypsies responded, “so they don’t rise up and cause mischief.” Landis thought this was hilarious, but then wondered, “What if he does rise from the grave? And how would we react?” When Landis got a decent draft finished, studios did not know what or how to market the movie. Is it comedy? Is it horror? The script did impress studio heads at Universal enough to give Landis a shot at directing Animal House. Once Animal House and Blues Brothers were very successful, Universal gave the green light with Poly Gram films to release Werewolf.

Grandalf

Did anyone else recognize the taxi driver towards the end as Brick Top from Snatch? I've never seen him in anything else, but I recognized his voice in his first line.

Vwlss Nvwls

I wish more movies took the time for practical effects. I find it so much more enjoyable when everything is not CGI.

Vwlss Nvwls

We watched this in about 1983 on VHS, while we were eating dinner. The scene when he looks in the fridge my stepmother told me to finish my peas and i said "I'm not hungry" at the exact same time as he did in the movie. My stepmother and I just looked at the t.v. in shock, then started laughing. I did not have to finish my peas for once. :D

Vwlss Nvwls

I had such a huge crush on Jenny Agutter after this movie. :D

Paul Tassin

When I was 10, my friends mom took us to see this in theaters. I had nightmares for weeks!!

REDR58
>>140985594

Look for more Jenny Agutter in “Equus” and “Logan’s Run”!

REDR58
>>140976636

I really wish Arrow would stick the Blu-ray Disc in with the 4K disc, like Criterion and other companies do with a lot of their titles.

REDR58
>>140966063

Nor functioning lungs or presumably a brain to make everything work in the first place. But he “lives” through magic, I suppose. Maybe a wizard did it!

Alan Kobb

The real star of the movie is Rick Baker, who did all of the amazing wolf transformations as well as the dead people. This movie won him his first of 11 nominations for Best Makeup 11 times (a record), as well as his first of 7 wins (another record). He got his start as a teen, making human body parts at the kitchen table. He did Michael Jackson's Thriller video, prosthetics for The Exorcist, the original Star Wars trilogy, Harry and the Hendersons, Coming to America, Gremlins 2, Men in Black I & II & III, Planet of the Apes, X-Men Last Stand, and many more, so you've seen his work lots of times. My feeling about the ending is that there's nothing left to tell. Instead of someone trying to come up with pithy remarks to explain David's demise, the audience is left in shock. While I love Lord of The Rings, compare this ending to that movie, which still has about 30 minutes of drama and tears after all of the action has conluded. Short and to the point.

Stephen Morris

You guys should watch Brotherhood of the Wolf.

Sckmnky

Canadian Werewolf: AhhhOhhh, eh.

djKENTO

The title of the movie is a combination of two other films, An American in Paris and Werewolf of London. The movie is a comedy, it’s a comedy title… but the movie has become more well known than the films it takes it’s title from.

djKENTO

Also your Canadian werewolf movies exist… they’re called Ginger Snaps and they’re pretty wonderful films about sisters, werewolves, being an outsider and coming of age. They’re cult classics.

Joe D. MacGuffinstuff

Had to rewatch this reaction, it's such a unique movie, and I know John Landis is more known for his comedies but this is honestly my favorite of his movies. The campiness I love, but also the werewolf lore and of course the iconic transformation scene. One of those movies I never get sick of. And werewolf movies are a favorite subgenre because I think that whole Jekyll/Hyde, duality of man trope is really interesting to play with. WOLF, the Jack Nicholson one I've probably mentioned an annoying amount, is I think a great example of that. There was also a great underrated show in the 80s called Werewolf that was basically The Hulk but he's a drifter/werewolf who somehow always seems to do the right thing despite being an insane murder beast. Oh man, but I have to also recommend WOLFEN, it's not a typical werewolf movie, but it's kind of trippy, B-Movie fun. Actually has a stacked cast, Albert Finney, Gregory Hines, Diane Venora, Tom Noonan, Tom Waits, Edward James Olmos.

Tyler Foster
>>140920627

Still is. I believe the type of company in question is an LLC, a limited liability company, which forms for the sake of producing the movie and then disbands but can function like a company while the film is being made so that the people employed by the production can get paid. If you watch to the end of the credits on most movies you will see the name of the LLC, which is almost always a direct reference to the movie.

Tyler Foster

If you Google search, you can find photos of the time a few years ago when Rick Baker did his daughter's Halloween costume. She went as Jack from this movie in the initial gnarly ghost form, with the dangling throat bit. When Rick Baker is your dad, you know you have the greatest Halloween costume in history on lock.

Duron Ball

Fun fact... The American that visits David in the hospital is Frank Oz... Later on, there is a clip on the "Tele" with the Muppet Show.... Mr. Frank Oz, for a very long time, was the voice of Miss Piggy. 😊😊

brian burke

thats right that was frank oz, aside from miss piggy he is also yoda, and great director of many things, also in this move you can see the late deceased comedian rik mayall in the pub, he was really funny in many other things. also check out the sequel an american werewolf in paris. its pretty good, abit sillier, but i liked it.

brian burke

if you are interested in making of specials they are out there and certain dvd commentaries have both griffin dunne and davd on it giving alot of detail. also david naughton, the star of this movie is actually a good singer, he used to sing the dr pepper commercial theme song and had a big hit with a song called "making it" around 1979 or so. and some canadian werewolf movies people may like are the wolfcop series and ginger snaps, wolfcop series is more comedy. the guy who plays jack, the mutilated ghost buddy, is griffin dunne, who is also a major director. his sister dominique was in poltergeist and was tragically killed by her boyfriend around that time. the killer got off with slap on the wrist and the family was devastated.

Brad Lowry

Another interesting tid-bit: if you look up David Naughton in IMdb you'll see that he also played the character Dr. Ken Tucker in an episode of the whimsical show, "Psych". I was curious enough to check out that the plot of that episode was a client paying the Psych Detective Agency to protect the community from himself lest he turn into a Werewolf (played by fine actor, Joshua Malina) on the night of a full moon. I was NOT curious enough to watch the entire episode, but I was convinced that David Naughton is happy to have fun with his fame for AAWIL and to do one-off roles that play into the devotion so many have for this film. (I saw a credit for "American Horror Story" as well but didn't look it up...)

Wayne Kryka

Jenny Agutter starred in LOGAN’S RUN, a movie you should definitely do an episode of

DM DC

Well I'd say regarding the title you're both wrong. Also I think you both are reading to much into it. Being a werewolf is not a new identity regardless of how you look at it. You're still you that's what being a "were-wolf" is. You don't cease being from your nationality or whatever just because you also turn into a wolf-creature. He's an Anerican and he's a werewolf. So he's an american werewolf. To answer the earlier part of your question further- there is no specific were-creature nationalities, but rather types. were-wolf; were-tigers, were-rats, etcetera. The were in werewolf comes from the Old English word wer, meaning "man." Definitions of werewolf. noun. a monster able to change appearance from human to wolf and back again. synonyms: loup-garou, lycanthrope, wolfman. I also wish to just comment on something Jack had commented on earlier. The 5 pointed star is not just for witchcraft. It's a universal symbol of power. And as long as it's not the inverted star it's safe to use. With that said, this was a fun reaction. The transformation is regarded as one of the best in all of film. While I do think it's very well done, and very cool I still always felt it was a bit to drawn out and slow for the transformation process, but there's no denying that the effects that went into it are just seamless and freaking amazing.