An American Werewolf in London (1981): Is This the Perfect Werewolf Movie?
Two American backpackers.
A lonely road.
A strange pub.
One extremely important warning:
John Landis' An American Werewolf in London (1981) somehow manages to be funny, frightening, tragic and disgusting—sometimes within minutes of each other.
And then there's the transformation.
Rick Baker's effects work helped create one of cinema's defining werewolf transformations: painful, physical and horrifying.
No convenient cutaway.
We watch it happen.
More than four decades later, filmmakers are still chasing what this movie accomplished.
So here's tonight's question:
Is An American Werewolf in London actually the greatest werewolf movie ever made?
We've got 22 more nights to find something that can beat it.
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🐺 Tonight: An American Werewolf in London (1981)
🌕 Tomorrow: Wolfen—but does it even count?
