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tF Purple Smurf's Weekly Movie Review - July 7th, 2010
An American Werewolf in London, directed by John Landis, and starring David Naughtom, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne, and John Woodvine.
In an age where vampire and werewolf films involve a love triangle and sparkly blood-sucker, I needed some sort of monster movie that followed it's rules and traditions. While I was walking around the movie section at Wal-Mart, I stopped by the Blu-Ray rack and noticed An American Werewolf in London glaring me down. I looked at when it was released, and was glad to see it was in theaters before I was born, so it wouldn't be subject to the torture of a sparkly vampire...
The movie begins with two American college boys backpacking through Europe, and they start in Northern England. After stopping by a pub, they leave and are later attacked by a werewolf. David, played by David Naughton, survives the attack and becomes a werewolf. His friend Jack, played by Griffin Dunne, dies during the attack. As the story continues, David questions what happened in the small town in Northern England, and what he has to do stop his curse.
I thought that An American Werewolf in London is a great movie, a true werewolf movie. The acting was superb, the story was spot on and what you would expect from a monster movie. Although it was made in the 80s, it looked like a great movie. The make-up made me believe that Jack actually was dead. Another great part, or downside depending on how you look at it, was that there wasn't barely any CGI, if there was any CGI at all. The werewolf was kind of realistic, although it moved a little robotically. When David was transforming into a wolf, they used make-up and props that made it seem real. Overall, if I saw it when it was released I probably would have given it a 9, but because, as a generation, we've been spoiled with technology so the wolf was a little in unbelievable, I'm giving it an 8 out of 10. There have been talks of a remake, which could single-handedly save monster movies if it was done right.
This movie also spawned two things, one great and one not so great. The great thing was that this movie created the OSCAR for best make-up, and the not so good thing was that it spawned a sequel. The consensus for the sequel was that it was horrible and too CGI-y.
If you're tired of these new "monster movies" then I seriously recommend watching this movie because this is the reason that we watch monster horror movies.
... Smurf out
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