An American Werewolf in London

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<B>Special Effects Make-up by Rick Baker*</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>David Kessler............David Naughton (</B><I><B>Sleeping Car, Dr. Pepper Commercials</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Alex Price.................Jenny Agutter (</B><I><B>Child's Play 2, Dark Tower</B></I><B>)      </B></div> <div> <B>Jack Goodman.........Griffin Dunne (</B><I><B>After Midnight, Me and Him, My Girl</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Doctor Hirsch............John Woodvine (</B><I><B>Assault on Agathon, Edge of Darkness</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Chess Player............Brian Glover* (</B><I><B>Alien 3, The Company of Wolves</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Barmaid...................Lila Kaye (</B><I><B>The Canterville Ghost</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Dart Player...............David Schofield </B></div> <div> <B>Mr. Collins................Frank Oz (</B><I><B>Trading Places, The Muppet Show</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Insp. Villiers.............Don McKillop</B></div> <div> <B>Sergeant McManus..Paul Kember</B></div> <div> <B>Naughty Nina...........Nina Carter (</B><I><B>Spinal Tap</B></I><B>)</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: David Naughton and Griffin Dunne are perfect as the smart alec American college students treking across England and, after a bout with a werewolf, they are funnier as reluctant werewolf and dreadfully bored and irritated (and decomposing) undead. Indeed, this is a big cast and along with big director John Landis, they pull off the near impossible challenge, namely walking the tightrope of humor and horror--a sure formula for failure that Landis avoids by strictly balancing the irony with scares. The intensity of the dream sequences and werewolf stalk and chase scenes are what make this horror despite the humor. The werewolf transformation scene is, for a radical change, a selling point and elegantly and expensively pioneered the transformation technology that has been so vulgarized since. Landis subtly portrays Jack's denial of his lycanthropy with dreams that indicate he fears (ala Lon Chaney Jr.) hurting the ones he loves the most. The great soundtrack includes: Blue Moon(versions by Bobby Vinton and Sam Cooke), Moondance (Van Morrison), Bad Moon Risin' (Credence). "Naughty" Nina in the TV ad played the disagreeable Yoko Ono character in "Spinal Tap".</B></div> <div> <B>Memorable line: "A naked American man stole my balloons."</B></div> <div> <B>Trivia: Toward the end of the credits, Lycanthrope Pictures congratulates Chuck and Di on the occasion of their wedding.</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: A pair of witty American college students hitchhiking across England are warned by the natives to stay away from the moors. They stop in for something hot at a pub called "The Slaughtered Lamb" where they get nothing but an eerily cold reception and a quick send off when Jack clumsily asks why they keep a pentagram painted on the wall. Despite the protests of the innkeeper and another warning to stay off the moors and beware the moon, the boys are sent out into the freezing rain. The local tough guy (Brian Glover) (The Company of Wolves) (does this guy attract Werewolves or what?) coldly announces, "They're in God's hands now." When they take a shortcut across the moor in the pouring rain they are attacked by a Werewolf. David, unconscious with flesh wounds, is saved by the guilt-ridden townspeople who shoot the werewolf, and Jack is dead for the time being. Since the attacker upon death has returned to its human form, the town's people stick by their story that an escaped lunatic attacked the boys. Three weeks later, David awakes to the bad news from the U.S. charge defair and the bumbling crew from Scotland Yard. He insists they were attacked by a wolf, but receives a very British dismissal for being overrought. Enter the pretty nurse Alex who takes an interest in David, who is plaged by terrifying nightmares of carnivorous hunt scenes and the murder of his family, and finally brings him home to stay with her after his release despite his erratic behavior and his insistance that dead Jack had paid him a visit in the hospital. The undead Jack visits David frequently and tells him they were attacked by a werewolf and Jack is doomed to walk the earth in limbo until the wolves bloodline is broken "Kill yourself, before you kill others." Dr. Hirsch meanwhile drives to East, Proctor to investigate, where the young dart player tells him of the werewolf, a story Hirsch attributes to a sort of mass neurosis. With the full moon comes David's first transformation and killing spree that is at times as funny as it is scary. David awakes naked in the wolf's cage at the zoo, and returns to Alex, who has been alerted to the murders by Dr. Hirsch and has instructions to bring David to the hospital. As reports of the murders roll in David slowly comes to the realization that he is indeed a Lycanthrope. After fruitlessly attempting to have himself arrested by an unflappable bobby, he loses Alex and Jack waves him into a cinema. In a porno theater in Piccadilly Circus, Jack introduces David to his victims (a yuppie couple, three homeless men, and a businessman) and they try to convince him to kill himself before the next full moon. Unfortunately, they are too late. Just as a Werewolf puts those he loves most in danger, David believes he can only be killed by someone who loves him. As David tears his way out of the cinema, causing a Blues Brothers-esque car crash scene, a SWAT team and Alex rush to Piccadilly Circus - in time to save the rest of London?</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>