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An American Werewolf in London

1981

John Landis

David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne, John Woodvine ...

6.7

27,929

Horror. Comedy Two American friends, David Kessler and Jack Goodman, are attacked by a wolf while hiking across the English moors. David wakes up in hospital and learns that Jack has been killed. He is soon plagued by nightmares where Jack appears to him to tell him that they were attacked by a werewolf and that he, David, was bitten and will become a werewolf too unless he kills himself before the full moon.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"'An American Werewolf in London' seems curiously unfinished (...) The movie has sequences that are spellbinding, and then long stretches when nobody seems sure what's going on (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"It's a failure, less because the odd stylistic mix doesn't take (...) than because Landis hasn't bothered to put his story into any kind of satisfying shape."	NEG
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"It gets off to a wonderful start (...) When the movie backfires, which it finally does, it's because too much grisly footage has been used too lightly."	NEU
United States	Variety	"A clever mixture of comedy and horror which succeeds in being both funny and scary, 'An American Werewolf' in London possesses an overriding eagerness to please that prevents it from becoming off-putting"	POS
United States	Joshua Rothkopf Rolling Stone	"Calling the film a sick joke is perfectly apt. It’s a sweaty, shuddery experience, one that coaxes cringe laughs in equal measure as jump scares (often in the same scene)."	POS

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