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| Pink letters for a very brutal movie. |
Hello to wankers, occasional readers, downloaders, and mostly to my fellow movie connoisseurs that take some precious time to visit my extremely humble blog. You know I have never thought that my blog is a trend setter or a professional's job. In march this movie freaks' corner will be six years old, although at his early stages it was a personal public diary where I could spit my teenage anger against the civilized world.
Today, a month from being a six years old blog, I must thank everyone around kind enough to pay a little visit to my blog, no matter if you got into it just because you were looking for cult movies image files, video trailers, or looking for some of the most hardcore content that I exploit mercylessly to attract more avid visitors ha,ha. Anyway I have never earned a single dollar by doing this. It is just that I love movies just as much as you do. So, let's get down to business and meet today's horror flick.
An American Werewolf in London, my one and only werewolves movie I do like. Well, I also like Van Helsing but that's another story.
Released in 1981, written and directed by John Landis this movie tells the story of two friends backpacking through Europe. David Kessler (the lead role played by David Naughton) and Jack Goodman (played Griffin Dunne), find themselves out on England's moors, despite advice to avoid them. When a wild animal attacks them, one of them dies, and the other I believe you can guess what is to become of him if, you have a glimpse of knowledge about lycanthropes (yes noobs, they appear on Van Helsing, Underworld, Wolfman ,etc)
Director John Landis' "pet project"--he had to sit on the script for 10 years before he had enough clout from other films for this one to be greenlighted--is an excellent, seamless melding of comedy and horror, with a surprising amount of brutality and one of the most wonderfully dark, abrupt conclusions ever made.
John Irving once said that he loves to put comedy and tragedy in close conjunction because each can make the other more effective. That's just the effect that the combination has in An American Werewolf In London. Both the comedy and the horror in the film are fully committed to, unlike many attempts to merge the two. If "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts" is ever true, this is an example. The comic bits wouldn't be nearly as delightful if they didn't supervene on the disturbing, and the horror wouldn't have near the impact if they didn't arrive in the context where you half-expect the next moment to be just as lighthearted and amusing. Both the initial "animal attack" and the apocalyptic ending are perfect examples of this.
Aside from that exquisite unusualness, An American Werewolf In London has many other superb characteristics. The cast is perfect. Naughton, carries the film with ease. The cinematography is excellent. The shots of the countryside (actually filmed in Wales) are actually both beautiful and very eerie at the same time. The make-up effects are awesome, and the transformation effects are unsurpassed. The music, which is primarily a number of different "moon" related pop songs, is also perfect, partially because of the bizarre contrasts in mood that the music creates, which echoes the comedy/tragedy juxtaposition. Unlike many other films, every scene in this one is a something I'd like to spend years exploring. The settings, the characters, the scenarios are all so fascinating.
This film deserves to be a part of your home video classics list, it is a must!
Here's the movie trailer:
Today, a month from being a six years old blog, I must thank everyone around kind enough to pay a little visit to my blog, no matter if you got into it just because you were looking for cult movies image files, video trailers, or looking for some of the most hardcore content that I exploit mercylessly to attract more avid visitors ha,ha. Anyway I have never earned a single dollar by doing this. It is just that I love movies just as much as you do. So, let's get down to business and meet today's horror flick.
An American Werewolf in London, my one and only werewolves movie I do like. Well, I also like Van Helsing but that's another story.
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| Two long time friends about to meet their destiny. |
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| John Landis, an underrated film maker. |
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| a Promotional picture from the movie. |
Released in 1981, written and directed by John Landis this movie tells the story of two friends backpacking through Europe. David Kessler (the lead role played by David Naughton) and Jack Goodman (played Griffin Dunne), find themselves out on England's moors, despite advice to avoid them. When a wild animal attacks them, one of them dies, and the other I believe you can guess what is to become of him if, you have a glimpse of knowledge about lycanthropes (yes noobs, they appear on Van Helsing, Underworld, Wolfman ,etc)
Director John Landis' "pet project"--he had to sit on the script for 10 years before he had enough clout from other films for this one to be greenlighted--is an excellent, seamless melding of comedy and horror, with a surprising amount of brutality and one of the most wonderfully dark, abrupt conclusions ever made.
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| The special effects are quite impressive for the 80's. |
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| Jennifer Agutter plays a nurse, but no, she's not nude like in this picture. |
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| Jennifer Agutter, pure british sex. |
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| Will they eat the goat? |
John Irving once said that he loves to put comedy and tragedy in close conjunction because each can make the other more effective. That's just the effect that the combination has in An American Werewolf In London. Both the comedy and the horror in the film are fully committed to, unlike many attempts to merge the two. If "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts" is ever true, this is an example. The comic bits wouldn't be nearly as delightful if they didn't supervene on the disturbing, and the horror wouldn't have near the impact if they didn't arrive in the context where you half-expect the next moment to be just as lighthearted and amusing. Both the initial "animal attack" and the apocalyptic ending are perfect examples of this.
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| Think again if you think I'm a vampire! |
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| Doggy, doggy, doggy! |
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| Don't worry, it's just a scar. |
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| Animality! |
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| You could use some sleep, you look awful. |
Aside from that exquisite unusualness, An American Werewolf In London has many other superb characteristics. The cast is perfect. Naughton, carries the film with ease. The cinematography is excellent. The shots of the countryside (actually filmed in Wales) are actually both beautiful and very eerie at the same time. The make-up effects are awesome, and the transformation effects are unsurpassed. The music, which is primarily a number of different "moon" related pop songs, is also perfect, partially because of the bizarre contrasts in mood that the music creates, which echoes the comedy/tragedy juxtaposition. Unlike many other films, every scene in this one is a something I'd like to spend years exploring. The settings, the characters, the scenarios are all so fascinating.
This film deserves to be a part of your home video classics list, it is a must!
Here's the movie trailer:
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