An American Werewolf in London

An American Werewolf in London (1981) is an American horror comedy written and directed by John Landis. The film achieved a cult status and won both an Oscar as a Saturn Award for best makeup. In addition it got a second Saturn Award for best horror film.

There appeared in 1997 a sequel called An American Werewolf in Paris . ==Story[ Edit] == David Kessler (David Naughton) and Jack Goodman (Griffin Dunne) are two young American men who want to travel through Europe together for three months. The film begins in an abandoned landscape somewhere in England, where the trek has brought their until then. Their pleasure in roaming around is abruptly brought to an end, when attacked by a wolf. Jack survives the attack, while David gets hurt.

David is admitted in a hospital in London. While he heals from his injuries he suffers hallucinations: his dead friend Jack comes to visit him and tells him that they were not attacked by an ordinary wolf, but by a werewolf. He tells him that David itself will change into a werewolf at the next full moon and then in turn will attack and kill other people. Even worse, all the victims will make, he will get stuck between the earthly and the afterlife until the last werewolf will be death. Jack is one of those "Undead" and David is the last werewolf. Jack proposes to David to commit suicide for his own good and for the sake of Jack, all the "Undead" and the many possible victims.

David refuses to believe these hallucinations. However, when the full moon is indeed David transforms into a werewolf. This transformation scene is partly responsible for the cult status that the film has obtained and is a milestone in film history on special effects.

When David is transformed back to his human form, he comes to the realization that his alleged formed the reality and hallucinations that Jacks prediction has come true: David has in the form of werewolf different people murdered in the streets of London. He sees no other solution than to commit suicide, but before he can do this he is shot by the police, who was looking for a maniacal killer. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] ==
 * David Naughton - David Kessler
 * Griffin Dunne - Jack Goodman
 * Jenny Agutter - nurse Alex Price
 * John Woodvine - doctor Hirsch