THE BEST WEREWOLF Film EVER!? // "An American Werewolf in London" REACTION!
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ONE OF THE WEIRDEST HORROR COMEDIES OF ALL TIME and one of the best practial effect sequences of all time! Hit up PATREON.com/SEANTANKTOP to become a $2 Patron to unlock our back catalog OR be a baller and get up to the Feature Film Tier to unlock our Early Access to our Full Uncut Reactions!
The Socks The Socks The Socks .....will get you in the end...Even if think/act Kool with a "K" When in fact a Puddy Pudd Puddy Puddingtons.
David is always criticised for obeying his first instinct, "some friend", and running in sheer panic. I think that's a perfectly natural reaction, it's too his credit, that when his brain kicks in, he goes back to help his friend.
Yeah it makes total sense to get into a fist fight with what appears to be a fucking escaped zoo bear or something lol
It's interesting how the opening scene puts them in the back of the truck with sheep, symbolizing that David and Jack are lambs to the slaughter.
One of the Nazi death squads who hunted Jews were called 'The Werewolves' so thats were that nightmare sequence comes from...
Frank Oz is in it twice ! The Embassy guy and Kermit the Frog.
The guy in the subway played Bib Fortuna.... so Yoda and Bib were in this film !
Jenny Agutter has been in the MCU....
Great film, first saw it as a 10 year old ! lol.... mmm, maybe thats why it 'stuck' with me, defo one of my favourites to this day.
Frank Oz didn't voice Kermit the Frog. That was Jim Henson. Frank Oz voiced Fozzie Bear and Miss Piggy (so, because we hear Piggy talking, he is still in it twice).
"Beware the moon, and stick to the roads… Oops."
This is easily in my top 3 favorite films of all time. Such an incredible mix of genres, while also being a generational film when it comes to practical effects and monster makeup. Between David’s transformation and the bit of dangling flesh on Griffin Dunne’s neck during the hospital scene, no other film has made me squirm more as a horror fan.
I actually got to meet David Naughton once at a screening of the movie in Portland. He was super cool and answered a lot of questions about the production of the film after the screening, and he signed my blu-ray copy!
Yes. It's #1 for me. I just loved it. It has a little bit of everything. Blood & gore, humor, love story, dream within a dream sequences, the most iconic werewolf transformation scene ever and a great soundtrack. "The Sixth Sense" is a close second.
Nurse is Jenny Agutter, female lead in Logans Run.
Best werewolf transformation ever.
One cool thing to note if you didnt know. Its because of this film, Michael jacksons thriller exists. He loved the effects so much, he contacted rick baker and asked him to do similar effects for his music video.
Another cameo, Rik Mayall from The Young Ones was playing chess in the pub at the beginning of the film.
For a non-UK audience, they might know him from the movie Drop Dead Fred.
Riks unpublished poetry: Wolf. Wolf. Wolf. Am i a wolf? Woof.
Shedding hair, perrie-air. Can a bourgeoise werewolf exist under thatcher? I dont know, im not a benign canine, fascist.
Brian Glover (the bald chess player/joke teller) in the Slaughtered Lamb also played Warden Andrews in Alien 3. 👍✌️
It’s not a MMM horror reaction until something’s WET
This is not the best werewolf movie ever. It’s the best movie ever.
Never knew that, cool fact 🙂
@@DocLunarwind Lol
''Funny'', the one person (out of three) who already saw this movie, is talkin' throughout the whole movie....and btw, it is not a horror comedy, but a real full blooded horror movie, with some funny moments....
"A naked American man stole my balloons!"
Brilliant mix of comedy and horror, of course some absolute first class practical effects, and some clever and cheeky use of some classic moon songs. It's so good. Also Jenny Agutter; we like Jenny Agutter. 🙂
13:42 No wonder the locals weren’t friendly to you when you visited
What a classic. The scene were bro turns into a werewolf is top tier practical effects! This movie, among others, used to scare me as a kid but as an adult, I enjoy them more and find them much more hilarious 😅
Love this movie! The practical effects are still some of my favorite. Particularly the continuous degradation of Jack.
Frank Oz was not just Yoda, he also voiced Miss. Piggy, Fozzie. Sam the Eagle and Animal on The Muppet Show and Bert, Cookie Monster and Grover on Seasame Street.
You don't put mushy peas on french fries, you put em on chips, obviously. 😏.
👍👍👍✌️
Best werewolf howl!
Your elation when Alan Ford showed up was contagious. "Do you know what 'nemesis' means?"
It was just a perfect buddy-synch moment
The 'See You Next Wednesday' cast were real life British adult movie stars. Linzi Drew was a UK household name in the late 70's and early 80's
The country that dotes on Big Macs and corn dogs has the temerity to knock all British food. Sheesh!
John Landis took a very unique direction on the vampire story, as well, with his film "Innocent Blood." Check it out.
So the guy in the checkered shirt to the right says what a friend, so explain to me guy. What was he supposed to do against a killer? Werewolf, he did what anybody else would do. Somebody's got to live to tell the tale
Every single reactor does this. Every. Single. One. Like absolute terror and panic wouldn't immediately send them into Flight Or Flight Mode like David - they'd all just calmly put a stomping on that werewolf like it ain't no thing.
Great film, full of dark humour, gory thrills & genuinely scary. Trivia, Landis' script was ignored by studios for 10 years before he had enough clout from other films for this one to be greenlit.
1. Jenny Agutter played Jessica in Logan's Run.
That would be a great first time/share. HINT HINT
2. "A naked American man stole my balloons".🤣
3. All of the songs played have something about the moon.
4. Mr. Collins is played by Frank Oz. (Yoda, Miss Piggie and other Muppets)
5. "Shakespeare's French"
6. It makes you wonder what the speed limit was in Piccadilly Circus. Landis wanted to have fun, and I'm not mad about that.
7. He had to die, and he expected it.
8. Favorite character: Jack
9. DO NOT waste your time (and ours) watching, "American Werewolf in Paris".
Between this and Dog Soldiers, the British make the best werewolf films.
DUDE I JUST FINISHED WATCHING THIS MOVIE WTF??? THE ENDING CREDITS ARE STILL ROLLING
Spooooooooooky
When it smash cuts from the emotional devastation of the final scene and does a tonal 180 to a very upbeat blue moon over the credits. F**kin amazing.
@@TomVCunninghamthis and the entire cinema scene before the transformation were hilarious 😂
The guy in the check shirt has a weird set of expectations and views on films lol.
The guy in the subway is the guy who played Bib Fortuna in Return of the jedi.
I hope you guys get to watch it again on your own. It appears that you missed some of the jokes and gags peppered throughout the film, which are some of the best parts. Also, Landis planned to have the last scene take place in a London animation theater, but by the time he got around to actually filming, the location had become a porno theater. Instead of changing the script, he just went with it.
That was a stroke of luck,that scene worked brilliantly. Seeing all David's victims watching that terrible but hilarious porn film was so surreal and funny
Did you know the nurse is in Winter Soldier??
And 'Logan's Run'.
And The Eagle Has Landed. And The Railway Children. And Equus. And Walkabout. I met her about 35 years ago in a sandwich shop in Harrogate. One of my favourite actresses.
@@AndrewBroadhead-kb7oc Yes of course - but I was pointing out something recent that these young guys might have seen.!
What is interesting about An American Werewolf in London (and I mean this as an observation not a criticism) is that it's not about anything. The Howling is a satire about scam pop therapy trends and the kind of violence inherent in people, but An American Werewolf in London isn't about jack shit other than being a werewolf movie and it's very good at being that. Yes, there are elements of what it felt like growing up Jewish a generation or two removed from the Holocaust, but the movie isn't about that at all, that stuff is all frosting. This is why a movie written in 1969 (as AWIL was) but not made until 1981 could make it through 12 years with virtually no revisions. Landis carried that script for 12 years and hardly changed a word because again, the movie isn't an allegory or satire about the then current day or anything like that. It's just a werewolf movie and it kicks ass.
Isn’t about jacksh*t? Really?! I think that’s dead wrong, friend. I think it’s very very clearly about Survivors Guilt. And its especially potent through the lens of boomer Jewish progeny of the survivors of WW2 and the Holocaust. Not exclusively but it’s no cowinky-dink that a nice Jewish family, Menorah and all, get gunned down and butchered by beasts in SS uniforms? That has no bearing on the themes at all? The fact that it was written earlier speak a to that even further lol.
Hommie said Fonzie the Bear lmao
This movie was the reason they invented the Best Makeup Category for the Oscars. There wasn't an award for makeup before this movie. Also, those are all PRACTICAL EFFECTS!!
EDIT: Having lived in NY for 15 years, yes, it's extremely creepy standing in an absolutely empty subway.
OK, ANOTHER EDIT: I'm not exactly sure how true this is, but the end shot was supposed to be the nurse and the doctor walking away, with the doctor asking, "Are you hurt?"
To which she replues, "No. It's just a scratch." 😮😮😮😮😮
Someone needs to bottle those werewolf pheromones. Hubba hubba.
Your friend in the check shirt must have had a traumatising experience in England. 🧐 🎩🌂
You guys talk through the movie it sort of ruins it but you guys are fun to watch.
As a British dude, it’s so amusing just to see your reactions to our accents n now slightly but not exaggerated culture 😂 I showed this earlier tonight with a friend coincidentally however this is one of my favourite films of all time and used to live temporarily round the corner of where the apartment was filmed. Beware the moon.
Wuz it too "EAVY?
Great movie. I saw it at the theater the weekend it was released. I'm glad you enjoyed the humor, considering you talked over almost half the jokes.
3:13 when ever has skin ripping happened in a warewolf transformation ever?
well as someone with something wrong with my brain, that thinks mushy peas is a delicacy and unwelcoming to anyone that lives more than 2 miles away, I can confirm that you do get a free nurse. If you are lucky she will let you tend her wound...but probably not though if you tell her any of that.
Woof
I’m sorry I called you a meatloaf, Jack
Bib Fortuna werewolfed in an underground. Awesome
I watched the making of on the blu ray, it was actually supposed to be a scene in a regular theater, but by the time they got to filmming it, the theater had been converted into a porno theater 😂
You got a subscribe for leaving in the Alamo joke! Watched this at the Odeon in Liverpool Uk aged 17... different times 😳 bonus point for Brick Top 👏
Check out Dog Soldiers as well, amazing werewolf movie as well.
Here's the reason it's in a porn theatre: when Landis first wrote it (while or after visiting London), there were all these little movie theatres that showed cartoons. So in the script, it was supposed to be in one of these places, with old cartoons onscreen. But when he came back to shoot the film years later, all those places had converted to X-rated theatres. So he simply changed the script to reflect the changing times. Either way, the point is to have something ironic and tonally completely different going on in the background to contribute to the surrealness of the scene. That porn movie on the screen? That was the very first thing Landis shot and the British crew almost quit, thinking "what kind of movie are we making here?" 🤣Fantastic reaction, although I'm a little suspect that the "only" thing the guy on the right is going to remember is the moral conundrum (quite rightly), and not, for instance, the transformation sequence, the surreal tone and some of the comedy. It's a one-of-a-kind horror movie, as opposed to 90% of the genre. On top of that, it's just a human accomplishment, or an artistic one: everything John Landis set out to do, he achieved. And he was quite correct: it uses its limitations to its advantage. All the best art does that. This was not made on a big budget. The big car crash stuff in long shots at the end was actually stolen one night in Picadilly Circus. One take, slam, bam and all the stunt drivers just drove off. The stories about the making of this movie are ENDLESS. GREAT REACTION!
I'm an eighties kid, this, and the Exorcist tore my soul to shreds as a child! Thanks Mama
Guess what movie we’re doing next week?
Also 80's kid here first saw this movie when I was about 4 or 5 still love it.
The movie theatre near the end is showing See You Next Wednesday (a made up porn flick). This title appears in every one of John Landis' films. It comes from the C U next Tuesday acronym...
I really like the first Howling Movie with Dee Wallace ,Christopher Stone and Patrick Macnee.Works a a horror movie and as a satire
Frank Oz was Fozzie Bear, Miss Piggy, Sam Eagle, Animal and Marvin Suggs in the Muppets and he voiced Bert, Grover and Cookie Monster on Sesame Street.
Dammit, David! This isnt going to help the British perception of us Yanks.
I have a theory about the adult content. The film is about David losing his humanity and becoming a beast. The travail begins with dreams, then the encounter with the pets. Then, suddenly, he wakes up in the zoo where the animals treat him “normally” but now he is misunderstood by people, all the while with Jack’s ghostly commentary. At the end, he is in the pornotheater. He has been experiencing carnal bloodlust and no he sees carnal lust as well. I believe it is about his journey from human to animal.
In the 1970's, 20 or 30 minutes before the station closed it wasn't unusual for some tube stations to be virtually empty. Nowadays they wouldn't be 😁.
53:45 Vic Morrow, Jennifer Jason Leigh’s father. RIP
Oh wow
i watched that movie when i was a kid
Rick Baker did great with the makeup, he was supposed to do The Howling first but Landis bugged him to do this one, Baker still got a makeup consultation credit for The Howling. What they used was some of his designs.
You should check out Near Dark. Not werewolves, vampires.
Oh Near Dark is fantastic.
SEAN whered you get that shirt i need to know
Frank Oz did Yoda/Grover, Fozzy Bear, and Miss Piggy
Great video about a great movie. Kudos.
John Landis is a big influence on my own writing.
Dude on the right talked over a lot of important scenes/lines.
Now you have to do "The Howling" which also has a transformation scene which I actually like better, but I do like American Werewolf in London. I also suggest Ginger Snaps, which is really weird but I like it because it's different.
Top 10 movies ever
i have the dvd...its a masterpiece ...i watched it at least once per year .
1st film i ever saw on video..Allways puzzled me why they get attacked on the yorkshire moors,and end up 200 miles away in london...(spose american werewolf in leeds aint got that ring)
I know its too late now but Dog soldiers is a good werewolf movie.
There are a couple of deleted scenes that show more of the werewolf (the subway when he sees it turn the corner for example) which look pretty good. I think it was just more a creative choice to not include them over POV shots as opposed to the wolf itself looking limited. I always thought it would have looked scarier if it stood upright though, like in the Thriller video. The werewolf itself I thought was amazing work.
This was the first movie i ever saw in theaters i was 9yrs old
Gonzo blue muppet with the long nose
This was of the 1st films I saw, I was 12, and crapped my dax!, aussie girl x
Forewarning, I would avoid The Howling. It's not very good imo. This, on the other hand, has amost entirely likeable characters, which is an anomoly for an 80s horror movie. Maybe my favorite line from the movie, and was actually taken from something else, "A lot of weather we've been having lately..." lol. Also, I haven't seen this confirmed but I've always thought The Slaughtered Lamb was supposed to be the equivalent of The Alamo for its patrons. Meaning during full moon time, they needed the structure to barricade all its patrons.
Nay, the best line, and one of the best lines in cinema history - 'A naked american man stole my balloons'. Wonder why these guys didnt like the movie, its a goddamn classic. Also im intrigued by Benjamin , the boy who says no. id love some director commentary to explain / shed any light on the funny kid they found
Weird question and completely off topic but - to the guy in the shirt
Were you in the Burlington Bar for Game of Thrones? There’s a guy in the UA-cam reaction videos who’s the spit of you, if not!
great stuff, afraid you guys missed some of the most classic lines while talking over it but i'm sure you'll rewatch it
Thanks for the video!! See you later!! Stay safe.😊
Nice!
Love this movie!
It took home the Oscar for Best Make-up in 1982, after the category was introduced.
You have to watch the Howling. And Wolf, with Jack Nicholson.
I wonder if any American reactor watching a film set in Britain will ever be able to watch it without attempting a really bad British accent? 😒
"Oh Wow!! What a friend." Like you'd stand there a let it kill you. Yeah, right.
Are you guys going to react to the Final Destination movies?
Have you guys seen THE HOWLING (1981)?
I have! The fellas haven’t!
Ugliest dumbest werewolf transition ever, can't believe that movie is ever compared to this
❤👌👍✌
I am so glad CGI didn't exist in 1981 to ruin the great effects in this film.
Close, but he said dunnit (doesn't it) 32:15 another way my fellow brits butcher their own language😅
Love it and love that it was BRICKTOP who said it!
I live in the Black Mountains, where the opening of this was filmed. And...call me a bad person, if you want...I have an .MP3 of the werewolf howl from this movie, on a USB drive in my car. I like to park near popular camping spots, and play it at full blast, with the windows down.
Proper British food is excellent, you do yourselves a disservice buying into ww2 era stereotypes. Baked beans in the UK are not the same as in the US.
America has a nerve talking about british food when they have grits, chitlins and pump everything full of chemicals and corn syrup. Nevermind, if they dont like our food nobody is forcing them to eat it.
This movie used to scare the living crap out of me when I was younger. It still does but it used to too.
In my opinion, Dog Soldiers is the superior werewolf movie.
The guy in the checkered shirt is a little too wannabe intellectual/I'm too cool for this movie.
Fucking love this movie. Certified banger, 100%. Hot take though, I think Ginger Snaps (2000) is just a *little* bit better.
Interesting
I think The Howling is the best.
The Movie was So So not a real horror movie more of a comedy