one of the greatest early werewolf movies...Setting is good...the horrifuc scenes were mastered to scare you..and the EFFECTs were mesmerising!!
who remembers it all???
John Landis, you gotta hand it to him!!
*still have nightmares about the purple faced demon*
Posted by stitch_groover (Member # 2895) on :
American Werewolf was one of the few movies to ever give me nightmares (the only other being Friday the 13th). I really love this film, and actually plan on watching it tonight, as I bought it on DVD a couple of weeks ago. Only now have I got the chance to sit down and watch.
Posted by rhodes (Member # 3293) on :
This movie by far is the best werewolf movie to date. I have seen quite a few of them and none of them come close at all to amounting to its performance. The look of the wolf and effects are fantastic Thank You Rick Baker! The story is very good!! The setting is great. I especially love the opening from where David and Jack start their hike through the moores to where the wolf attacks them. All that is just worth seeing itself. Jenny Agutter is a another advantage. And where David becomes a wolf for the first time and makes his first kills. All done perfect. This is the epitome of werewolves. I would like to see something that is remotely close to being as good but it doesnt appear to be unless Craven teamed with Baker can pull one out of there ***
CAPTAIN RHODES
Posted by SHOGUN (Member # 477) on :
not to mention ther era it was in..the 80's had that "sense of spokyness" to many movies u agree..???like in music vids...mj's thriller to bonnie tylers-"eclipse" song n video...
i agree thsi film is the stand out of all werewolf movies, far by head of its time..it put many horror films to great shame!!
i rank this with the excorcist as "revolutuionary horror cinema"
do u feel it could have been better?>??? im not so sure..the humour was just right, the shock value was superb, the effects was amazing...maybe the ending could have lasted longer...
Posted by TheHornedKing (Member # 2691) on :
The concept of a werewolf haunted by his former "kills" is quite creative.
