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If you have not seen it, shame on you. If you have seen it but have not revisited it in a while, shame on you.

Best film ever?

Possibly. "A naked American man stole my baloons". "I'm sorry I called you a meatloaf Jack". "Have you ever tried talking to a corpse? It's boring!" "Beware the moon lads, and stick to the road".

A classic of the highest order.

― Mad Mike, Saturday, 16 October 2004 11:29 (twenty-one years ago)

And it's got Brian Glover in it, being dead Yorkie an'that. Long deserted tube walkways still give me the willies, though with London having such a woefully inadequate tube for such an overcrowded city, it never seems to happen now.

― darren (darren), Saturday, 16 October 2004 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)

London is woefully inadequate full stop. From the tube station where no one even smiles at one another to the grubby surroundings of the area. It is the perfect place to let a werewolf out, which is maybe why I love this film all the more.

― Mad Mike, Saturday, 16 October 2004 11:56 (twenty-one years ago)

funny. i was listenign to a creedence compliation the other day and when "bad moon" came on i was mildly freaked out because the metaomrpohsis scene in aawil came to mind.

― :|, Saturday, 16 October 2004 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

mad mike whats your take on mike lieghs "naked"?

― :|, Saturday, 16 October 2004 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I owe this film a great deal, it got me laid.

― Matt (Matt), Saturday, 16 October 2004 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

"naked" got you laid? Ew.

― Smokin' funk by the boxes (kenan), Saturday, 16 October 2004 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Going by the sentence, it reads like a lovely thing.

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Saturday, 16 October 2004 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

But then she was probably a goth.

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Saturday, 16 October 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

nine years pass...

FYI the BBC radio play version from 1997 is up on Mixcloud

http://www.mixcloud.com/werewolf/part-1-an-american-werewolf-in-london-bbc-radio-play/

― piscesx, Thursday, 21 November 2013 02:28 (twelve years ago)

four years pass...

This is a great movie and also Jenny Agutter is just a gorgeous human being.

― Paul Reverse and the rediaRs (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 17 July 2018 11:49 (seven years ago)

Yes and yes.

I was afraid that this revive was in the service of announcing an impending remake.

― Nebraska Man Partially Devoured by George Burns Chimp-ersonator (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 17 July 2018 12:22 (seven years ago)

this is a fucking great film, yeah

a recent rescreening of re-animator got me wondering why there was like a five-year stretch in the 80s where people were making really good horror-comedies that were genuinely both scary and funny (those two, evil dead, society, gremlins, return of the living dead, even ghostbusters to some degree, doubtless some others i'm forgetting) and why it vanished as quickly as it appeared

― BIG RICHARD ENERGY (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 17 July 2018 12:33 (seven years ago)

Lots of other stuff during that stretch which aren't quite horror-comedies but have dece comedic elements (Creepshow, CHUD, House, Pieces (although I'm not sure how much the comedy is intentional there), Day of the Dead, Basket Case, Fright Night). Also Toxic Avenger, if you count that as horror. I can't help but feel like cocaine played a role, somehow.

― Gregory Horsemelt (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 17 July 2018 13:02 (seven years ago)

it was the 80s, cocaine played a role in aspect of the entertainment world

whatever dealers were adding to their supply back then needs to be reintroduced and quickly imo

― BIG RICHARD ENERGY (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 17 July 2018 13:04 (seven years ago)

*in every aspect

― BIG RICHARD ENERGY (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 17 July 2018 13:04 (seven years ago)

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