Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Ploydsge just watch it!

Cunninghamolga This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

Allissa .Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

onnozuidema Saw this movie when I was young and impressionable...; remember that I liked it. I just watched it again with my sons, but it was quite a letdown. The opening scene, with the two American boys roaming the English moors is still pretty strong, but from there it goes downhill. The acting is flat and unconvincing, especially from David Naughton who plays David, the main character. Jenny Agutter and John Woodvine as nurse and doctor fare a little better. There is some attempt at humor, which does not really work; horror and humor usually are not comfortable partners anyway. The transformation scene is still strong and has survived the test of time, but thereafter the werewolf appears as a totally different creature from the one we see emerging from transformation. Weird. There are very few moments which are actually scary, and the ending is rather abrupt and disappointing. My teenager sons (who love SF/horror classics like Alien and The Thing from roughly the same area) found the movie boring. Cannot disagree with them. If this is the ultimate werewolf movie (which a lot of people claim it is), I shiver to think what the rest might be.

Jerewolf_Horrorhound For me, what drives this movie and makes it so strong is the use of practical effects. They do such a fantastic job of bring this werewolf to life right before our very eyes.

Joe Crimson This is my review of An American Werewolf in London (1981).This is a very entertaining film about two college age American boys that are on a backpacking trip across England. Shortly into the trip, they stumble across a pub filled with locals that are acting very strange and unwelcoming. After they are asked to leave, they stray off the road and soon find themselves being stalked by something in the dark. They are attacked, and when David wakes up in a hospital, he is informed that his friend is dead. The movie follows David as he tries to come to terms with the death of his friend, the feeling that the authorities are lying about what really happened, and the terrifying nightmares and hallucinations that begin to plague him.This film was made before computer graphics so you get awesome makeup and appliance work. The film has a good story, characters that you can invest in and root for, and is very successful at delivering scares, laughs, and excitement. Lots of fun song choices, usually having to do with the moon.I scored it a 9 out of 10, and I believe that it has good replay value. I have watched it many times over the years.

Movie_Muse_Reviews John Landis is a name associated with comedy. He wrote or directed some of the greatest comedies ever made, two of them ("Animal House" and "The Blues Brothers") in the two years preceding "An American Werewolf in London." So it's no surprise that "American Werewolf" threw his fans for a loop with its intense moments of horror and gore, but also no surprise that it's ridiculously silly.The horror-comedy hybrid is more commonplace today, 35 years after the release of "An American Werewolf in London" (not to mention a little horror film called "The Evil Dead"). Back then, horror comedies were just horror movies that were so bad they were funny, so to have a movie with such strikingly horrific images interlaced with raunchy comedy was a shock to the system. Today, that juxtaposition is what little value exists in watching "American Werewolf."Nothing can take away makeup effects artist Rick Baker's groundbreaking work on this film transforming the main character, David, into a werewolf, and its much-deserved first-ever Best Makeup Oscar, but the technology is all in service of an aimless story.Two young men, David (David Naughton) and Jack (Griffin Dunne) are backpacking in northern England when they are attacked by a werewolf. David wakes up in a hospital in London, where he starts to have violent hallucinatory dreams and is warned that during the next full moon, he'll turn into a werewolf, wreaking havoc on innocent souls. Much of the story is us waiting for David to turn into a werewolf, and the rest is waiting for the inevitably conclusion to his predicament. In the meantime, his nurse (Jenny Agutter) falls for him and his doctor goes off in search of the truth.The makeup, the horror sequences, the discomfort of Naughton running around naked and a werewolf attack in a porno theater – they're all either impressive or quirky bright spots for fans of genre films, but Landis strings them together using the bare minimum of what constitutes a story. He knows what scenes and moments he wants to punctuate "American Werewolf," but the plot moves between them without any discernible reason.There's good stuff in the movie, but the moments can't carry the dead weight. Landis has good horror instincts as best demonstrated by the subway chase and a wry sense of humor when it comes to ironic moon-themed songs and violence as seen in the climax in Piccadilly Circus, but the gaps in the story are filled with comedy, which confines the horror to just a handful of spots in the film. There's no suspense or sense of dread. This isn't to suggest Landis magically be Hitchcock, but too much of the film languishes or feels relevant to neither the comedy nor the horror."An American Werewolf in London" will always have a spot in the pantheon of horror movie history for its innovations and for spurring a genre renaissance in the '80s, but of Landis' catalogue, it makes the list of notable films, not timeless ones.~Steven CThanks for reading!Visit Movie Muse Reviews for more