An American Werewolf In London: Full Moon Edition

Directed by: John Landis
Written by: John Landi
Original Release Date: 21 August 1981
Full Moon Edition Release Date: September 15, 2009
Rated R

 

Cast:

David Naughton as David Kessler
Jenny Agutter as Nurse Alex Price
Griffin Dunne as Jack Goodman
John Woodvine as Dr. J. S. Hirsch
Lila Kaye as Barmaid
Joe Belcher as Truck Driver
David Schofield as Dart Player
Brian Glover as Chess Player
Rik Mayall as 2nd Chess Player
Sean Baker as 2nd Dart Player
Paddy Ryan as First Werewolf
Anne-Marie Davies as Nurse Susan Gallagher
Frank Oz as Mr. Collins / Miss Piggy
Don McKillop as Inspector Villiers
Paul Kember as Sergeant McManus

 

Deluxe edition includes two revealing NEW documentaries: Beware the Moon (with filmmaker Paul Davis), and I Walked with a Werewolf (with make-up effects artist Rick Baker)

2 american Backpackers are touring around europe and have arrived in a desolate part of the UK . Before long they are warned by the Locals of The Slaughtered Lamb to avoid the moors at night. Shortly afterwards they are attcked my a mysterious beast which kills one of them and wounds the other. the beast is subsequenlty killed by the locals and then the fun really begins. After coming round in Hospital David meets Nurse Price and begins to have disturbing dreams . He is visited by his now dead friend Jack who tells him that they were attacked by a Werewolf and that David will soon become one himself. Shortly after leaving hospital and Moving in with Nurse price a Series of grisly Murders takes place . And David realises that his dead best friend maybe right .

Trivia:

The location filming of the front of Alex’s flat and surroundings was filmed on or around Lupus Street in Pimlico, London (’Lupus’ is the Latin for ‘wolf’).

David Naughton was reportedly cast because John Landis had seen him in a television commercial for Dr. Pepper.

Director Cameo: [John Landis] appears briefly near the end of the film. He is the bearded man who gets hit by a car and thrown through the plate glass window in Piccadilly Circus.

Because of this film, makeup and industry technological contributions became recognized by the Academy Awards in 1981. Makeup artist Rick Baker was the first to receive an Oscar in the new category. William Tuttle was the first makeup effects artist to receive an Oscar (being an honorary one) for his work on 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964).

 

 

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