AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON (1981) | FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION
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23:54 Review/Outro
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“I want to see him turn into a werewolf.” Just wait, you’re about to see arguably the best werewolf change in cinema
I don't think there should be any debate about it. It's the best by far to me.
@@maxtew6521 Agreed!
It's the best werewolf movie ever made. My brother took me to the drive-in theatre in 1981 to watch it. I was 17. He slipped me LSD. Watching this movie on Acid! Holy shit to say mind blowing is an Understatement. Never forget that night.
Best transformation and best werewolf period.
There is no argument, no ifs ands or butts. It’s a confirmed fact. A universally agreed truth. It is the BEST werewolf transformation and werewolf movie ever made. And it always will be.
"A naked American man stole my balloons!" 🎈🎈 The best line in movie history! 😆
As someone who lives in the Yorkshire Dales, I can confirm all our pubs are like this…..albeit minus the pentagrams 😂
The village that was the filming location for East Proctor isn’t actually in Yorkshire; it is in fact in Wales.
The scene at The Slaughtered Lamb features two sadly missed icons of British stage & screen; Brian Glover (the man telling the joke) & Rik Mayall (the chess player).
The initial attack on Jack & David was filmed in the grounds of Windsor Castle.
Did you spot Frank Oz; the man behind Yoda, Fozzy Bear, Grover, Miss Piggy, Cookie Monster??? He was the US Embassy Official.
The films director, John Landis has a very brief cameo in the film. He’s the man who gets knocked through the glass window during the chaos in Piccadilly Circus.
Landis also directed Michael Jacksons I think Thriller and most certainly Black or White music videos.
@@jsmithmultimediatech John Landis did indeed direct both the Thriller & the Black & White videos.
@@davidanderson1639Yeah I thought he was, I knew with Black or White though since I've seen the making of that.
FYI: Won the Academy Award for the wolf special effects.
The transformation sequence in this won the Academy Award for it's makeup effects.
Yes, there were porno theatres then in most major cities in UK and US! This was just at the start of the VHS revolution, and before about 1980 there was no other way to see such films unless you'd got hold of a little 8mm film reel and had a film projector. Most of the time these theatres were packed with single men, but sometimes couples went! You might remember the scene in Taxi Driver where Travis is socially clueless enough to bring Betsy to one and it doesn't go well! Back then though, public porno theatres were big business.
Marty McFly even skateboards past one on the way to school in the first Back to the Future.
@@jessecortez9449 there were quite a few references to them in films back then, especially if they were set in London or NYC.
Paul Ruebens (Pee Wee Herman) got busted in one infamously a number of years ago.
@@shawnmiller4781 I remember!
I'm reading a book about the mob in the 1970s and they owned a bunch of said theaters in New York.
Hands down my favorite werewolf movie of all time. Great creature design, and there will never be another werwolf transformation like the one seen here. So happy you reacted to this classic and ver happy that you liked it.
The werewolf transformation sequence won an Academy award for SFX
The guy who was killed on the Underground went on to play Bib Fortuna, Jabba the Hutt's tentacled assistant in 'Return of the Jedi' in 1983.
Lycanthropy refers to the transformation of a human being into a werewolf, as occurs in legend, fairy tales and fiction. Shapeshifting between humans and animals in general is summarized under the term therianthropy. A lycanthrope is so to speak the official name for a werewolf.
You are one adorable werewolf!! Great job on the makeup!! Really loved your reaction… thanks for sharing your movie watching adventure!!
Is wrong that i find her extremely attractive in that makeup?
This was the top of David Naughtons career. He started out pitching Dr. Pepper soda commercials. He also had a hit Disco song, Making it. Followed by a TV show by the same name. Still very active in Hollywood. He's done bit parts in TV shows.Also voice overs in animation. He should have had done much more.
The Bus Driver who crashes is legendary British stunt man Vic Armstrong. He had a stellar year as after starring in this he also doubled for none other than Harrison Ford in 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' and repeated that role in Blade Runner, Return of the Jedi, Temple of Doom and Last Crusade amongst stunt work in many other movies.
my friend is married to Vics stepdaughter. She's also a stunt performer, Nina Armstrong.
I've stayed at Vics house in Windsor. Lots of memorabilia.
I'm a southern guy here in the US. I've gotta say I get such a kick out of Dawn being goofy, dressing up (I mean REALLY dressing up), and hearing her commentary spoken in that heavy heather honey brogue. I LOVE it! You're somethin', ma'am. RTR.
Feels weird to have to tell you this but, yes... places like Times Square in NY and Piccadilly Circus in London DID have porno houses. LOTS of them, actually. But the movie SEE YOU NEXT WEDNESDAY is an inside joke from the Director, John Landis, who hides that title in most of his films. (It's a billboard in The Blues Brothers, for example). It's NOT a porno, either - it was the name of Landis' college short film.
I think Landis even put one in his Thriller video too :)
Amazingly before there was an internet people still liked porn! Except we had to go out in public to see/buy it. Top shelf of magazine racks would have Playboy, Hustler, Juggs and a dozen other magazines that high school boys would try to look at before the vendors shoo'd them away. Tony is right there were many places that showed porn movies 24/7 but many more theaters had midnight showings in rural parts of America so the farmers could wank one out too.
@@chefskiss6179 it's said in the dialogue of the 'movie' while michael and his date are getting ready to leave the theatre.
Its also a poster for a sci fi movie in 'Coming to America.'
Imagine for a moment, somewhere in your reaction…..you paused and sighed, looked at the camera and said….”I never wanted to be a werewolf, I always wanted to be….a lumberjack!!”
22:22 FUN FACT: Of all the times director John Landis worked with a British crew, this was the one time he had a communication problem.
He instructed the crew members to take the head and throw it onto the hood of the car, but all he got in reply were blank stares. So he repeated "I want you to take the head... and throw it onto the hood of the car", but still got the same reaction.
Landis then took the head prop, said "Watch" and threw it onto the hood. The crew's reaction was "...oh the bonnet! You want us to throw it on the bonnet! Why didn't you say so?"
I love Jenny Agutter. Some of my favourite films of hers are The Railway Children (1970), Logans Run (1976), Walkabout (1971), The Eagle Has Landed (1976), The Man in the Iron Mask (1977), and The Survivor (1981).
I'm an American, but I've always loved the way the English or even Scottish, countryside looks. I also enjoy rainy and cold overcast days, basically I like weather other people find miserable. Great film choice, it's very unique and isn't the typical horror film.
This was an amazing and sadly largely forgotten movie. The transformation scene astonishes people who are in the business.
And a cameo from Frank Oz (aka Grover and Yoda, among many other Muppets).
Maybe outside the UK it's forgotten but in the UK this is regarded as an all-time classic. It's often referenced in TV shows (Spaced being one that comes to mind)
The lead character David, played my David Naughton was also a singer and had a #5 hit with the theme to a sitcom he was in called "Makin' It"
I still have it on a .45 record
American Lobster in London - He's the MAAAINE attraction!
"A naked American man stole my balloons."
😂 You can't take this movie seriously. 😂
Fun Fact: Mr. Collins is the one and only Frank Oz. Not only is he an actor and director, but is also a celebrated voice actor. Best known as the voice (and puppeteer) of Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, and Yoda.
Director Cameo Fact: 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.
Practical Make-up Fact: Rick Baker (the winner of the very first Academy Award for Best Make-up that was created the year this movie came out) claimed to have been disappointed by the amount of time spent shooting the face changing shot for the transformation after having spent months working on the mechanism. John Landis only required one take lasting about seven seconds. Baker felt he had wasted his time until seeing the film with an audience that applauded during that one seven second shot.
Awww. You stole my Frank Oz fact!
Someone's probably mentioned it but the guy from the US embassy is Frank Oz, puppeteer and voice of Miss Piggy, Yoda and other Muppets.
The American who yells at David in the hospital is Frank Oz, the voice of Yoda, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Cookie Monster, he also directed many famous comedies including Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
This was the first Horror film to win Best Makeup at the 1982 Academy Awards
Texas is known as the "Lone Star State," which is what that joke about the star on the wall of the pub was referencing.
I watched this film 6 years after it came out, i was about 5 at the time, I didn't know what it was and it scared the living shit out of me. i had werewolf nightmares right up to my early teen years and took me a lot of effort to watch it again as a late teenager because i still had ptsd
I first saw this film at the age of five too and loved every minute of it. Still my favourite horror movie of all time and I've seen the lot!
Same
Showing my age, here, but I was 14 when this movie came out, and my friend Jake and I had to buy tickets to another movie and then sneak in to see this one, because we weren't yet old enough. After watching it the first time, we loitered around the theater and snuck in to see it, again. Then a week later, we did the same thing. This is hands-down my favorite werewolf movie. Really glad you liked it, take care, be safe, and beware the moon!
The reason for all of the chaos during the climax at Piccadilly Circus is because David, being an American werewolf in London, is used to driving on the right side of the street, while Londoners are used to driving on the left side, so as David is rampaging through the streets of London he's causing all kinds of traffic accidents by being on the wrong side of the street. 😜
A full moon comes every 28 days. It was originally the span called a month for that reason, though calendar months have been adjusted to make them fit more snugly into a 365-day year.
Yep,the girl from The Railway Children.Jenny Agutter.Still attractive in her 70s.
She actually turns 70 in December. Be sure to wish her happy returns!
This is probably the most effective blend of comedy and horror ever made.
The director of this movie also did : Twilight Zone The Movie - The Blues Brothers - Animal House - Michael Jackson's video " Thriller ". And many more .
The 2 most quotable lines from this movie were " A Naked American Man Stole My Balloons " & " I Didn't Mean To Call You Meatloaf Jack !!!! ".
You'd probably enjoy Ginger Snaps 1 & 2, they're good werewolf movies. Ignore the third one though (Ginger Snaps Back), it's basically the first movie retold in a different time.
As you're also a fan of Star Wars, the guy in the suit with balding hair, moustache and glasses in the hospital is Frank Oz, who was the puppeteer and voice of Yoda.
How did I never see this reaction? You were an adorable werewolf. 😍
"A naked American man stole my balloons."🎈
Classic! 🤣
Silver bullet is good as well, and don't forget Wolfen.
David wasn't Jewish. The nurse didn't know that most Americans are circumcised. Actor David Naughton is actually Irish American.
Fun Fact: The bald guy that comes in and tells David that he has given the police permission to speak with David is Frank Oz...the voice of Yoda, and Miss Piggy amongst others.
Dawn Marie very cool Werewolf custom .& Great job with your reaction to the movie An American Werewolf In London.
Scottish actor Michael Carter who played Gerald Bringsley, he was the guy killed in the tube station also played Bib Fortuna in ROTJ.
My God! A beautiful werewolf! Nice Job with the wolf make-up. Anyway David Naughton was spokesman for Dr Pepper in the late 1970s. Singing "I'm a Pepper You're a Pepper. etc" Then he got the Werewolf gig. And American Werewolf in London won the Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Makeup (Special Effects) for 1981. It beat out the Howling and it's own practical effects. Great Movie Great Reaction. 😃😃😃
Great cosplay & reaction. This movie won an Oscar for best special effects make up.
I know the main actor from 80's Dr. Pepper commercials. "Wouldn't you like to be a Pepper too?"
In the old Universal Horror movies, England was not portrayed as rainy but dark and foggy
I don't think anyone's yet tried to make 'An American Lobster in London', but a comedy sketch show back in the 1980s did 'An American Armchair in London'. The sketch is on CZcams, so check it out.
It's Also a Love story 💖 with a 1981 Jenny Agutter❤(who is stunning). She was also in Logan's Run, Equus, and has a leading role in the British TV series, Call the Midwife. This is one of my favorite movies, partly because she is in it . A Full Moon occurs usually once a month..( thus the the word 'Month,' from the name 'Moon' ). I Really like your reactions. Yes, porno theaters are a real thing.. mostly before VHS tapes and DVDs came out
12:21 _"Is that a doctor? What's he goin' lookin' for?"_
his sausages.
Thumbs up for the costume & warewolf paint, it's cute and in the spirit.
Rick Baker, who did the makeup/practical effects won the Oscar for Best Makeup. Out of 40 awards since 1981, Rick Baker has been nominated 11 times and won 7, both the most by 1 person. The movie won the first time the award was given. Prior to 1981, Makeup awards were special merit awards. The catagory was created due to the outrage that 1980's The Elephant Man was not awarded the special merit award.
Another commentor mentioned the movie The Howling, in which the makeup effects were done by Rob Bottin, who was given his start in the business by Rick Baker.
4:14 Texas is called the lone star state.
Adorable werewolf!
@Dawn Marie
In Case no one has mentioned it, the American doctor at 7:20 is Frank Oz who does the voice of Yoda from Star Wars...
Cheers
Probably my favourite comedy horror. Yes the nurse was jenny Agutter from the Railway children. Lots of great UK actors with bit parts too:
- Rik Mayall as one of the chess players in the Slaughtered lamb
- Timothy West as the bald guy in the pub. In real life he's married to Prunella Scales aka Basil Fawlty's wife Sybil.
- The taxi driver was Alan Ford, aka Bricktop from Snatch.
- The Policeman in Trafalgar Square who won't arrest David was Peter Ellis who played the chief inspector in the BIll for many years.
- The doctor, John Woodvine has been it loads of classic TV shows: Z cars, the Avengers, Dr Who, The Crown, numerous soaps and many, many more.
Yes Dawn, most big cities have Porn theaters usually in the downtown areas where there's a small zone for them...
This movie won a Oscar for special make up effects
Aww Dawn Marie. First time I ever wanted to get bit by a werewolf.
the nurse was the main female lead in Logans Run... Great Story!!!
i was very young when i saw this and when hes friend come and see him just scared me ,the makeup and prosthetic were amazingly scary
Love your laugh, always makes me smile. Thanks. Watch "The Maltese Falcon" a Humphrey Bogart classic BxW film. Edit: Yes, there really was such a thing as porno theaters. Most were called art houses that ran racy foreign movies and straight out porn.
You need to up your dosage as well.
Lycanthrope. Wolfe
Lycanthropy - of or pertaining to wolves (or werewolves).
Your makeup makes you look like Katherine Isabelle from Ginger Snaps. A legend of werewolf movies, in my top three for sure.
Just googled! I'll take that 😁
Well at least it’s improved her looks! 😂🤣😂
A 90's scream queen but Ginger Snaps is where it aaaaalllll began for her. And she was... Well I can't spoil anything.
Bit rude innit? 😂 Sorry Lady Dawn, couldn't help it 😂
@@davidhasselblad2898 Since _Ginger Snaps_ was released in 2000, that's a bit wrong. She's definitely a "Naughties" Scream Queen, although her career reaches back to the 80's when she was a child.
This classic won the first ever Oscar for best make up. And yeah, I saw the slipper spider creep away behind you.
You enjoyed seeing "the dangle parts" way much, didn't ya?
Yeah, you could almost see a wave of sensation sweep over her. lol
It only looks dark and rainy because it was filmed in the Brecon Brecons area in Wales. The land of liquid sunshine. 🤣
Werewolf?
Here wolf.
;)
American Lobster in London? i'd watch that! lol fun fact; John Landis puts a film poster for See You Next Wednesday in all of his films ;)
They used to have those kinda theatres back in the 80's and 90's.
He didn’t escape the hospital-he was dreaming.
"Naked man. Naked man running through the forest. OMG I just saw his penis." 😂
And yes, there used to be those type of theaters all over. They became so come that they just kinda blend into the background. Other movies even have the in the background like Marty McFly skateboards past one on the way to school in the first Back to the Future.
The man who gets attacked in the Underground also played the tentacle headed minion of Jabba the Hutt in Return of the Jedi. The running joke in John Landis films is the appearance of the phrase 'See you Next Wednesday' in all his films. In this case, it's the name of the porno film showing on the screen. There is an indirect sequel called An American Werewolf in Paris, but it is absolutely terrible 🤣.
If you look closely, you can spot Rik Mayall in the Slaughtered Lamb pub
Yes, there is a second film (An american werewolf in Paris) but it has absolutely nothing to do with this film (also, the second film is bad in comparison)
Also, the porn theaters were a thing in those days
Yes! Drop Dead Fred! A Patron pointed this out 😁
@@DawnMarieX My first Rik experience was The Young Ones. Highly recommended if you haven't seen the show yet :)
@@mikeman2862 I still have a bootleg VHS of the Young Ones when it was played on MTv.
@@gitchegumee Was a superb show
As far as I am aware the transformation scene won an Oscar and still is known as the best werewolf transformation in cinema.
Awww! Such a cute werewolf! 😀
X rated movie theaters were a thing back in the 1960's to the early 90's.
Remember no VHS-machines (or extremely expensive ones) or internet !!
I still find this so bizarre 🤣
@@peterkragelund4794 I remember to this day when my Dad (who was technologically incompetent) borrowed a video recording setup from his school in 1977 so he could record a move off TV to show to his students. It was _The Count of Monte Cristo._ The quality was so terrible that he didn't even bother to show it to his students.
@@DawnMarieX Even written porn was illegal way into the 60´ies. It was a different world.
They're still around. It's mostly a place for married guys to hook up for back-row gay adventures.
Not condoning. Just reporting.
Nurse Alex is played by jenny Agutter, still working on BBC, I think. i had a crush on her in the eighties! Lol🤩
Porno theaters were a real thing until the advent of home video and, eventually, the internet. The title of the porno movie, "See You Next Wednesday" is an inside joke. It originated from a line in "2001: A Space Odyssey". John Landis started sneaking it into his films, and others began using it as well. To date it's been spoken or seen in about three dozen movies and TV shows. By the way, though few seem interested in checking it out, I think you'd be impressed by the original "Invisible Man" from 1933.
There is a sequel called American werewolf in Paris that came out in 1997 that was pretty good, but doesn’t hold the same popularity as American werewolf in London.
Soundtrack is all "Moon" related - Blue Moon, Moondance, Bad Moon Rising...
All porn was in theaters before the invention of home video tape (VHS), except stag films (16mm shorts).
You are just the cutest, Dawn😍lol I love your costume. It's great and I love how you appreciate the older movies❤️
Some recommendations for movies featuring werewolves:
* The Howling (1981)
* Silver Bullet (1985)
* Dog Soldiers (2002)
* Underworld (2003)
* Underworld Evolution (2006)
You forgot _Ginger Snaps._
@@tarmaque Patrick F already mentioned it earlier in the comments.
I've been waiting years for someone to say it @23:22 HA!
Always loved Jenny Agutter. She was great in Walkabout and Logan's Run.
In the 1970’s to around the time VHS became a house hold item the adult film theatre was a thing. There was one in my home town.
David was in commercials in the 70s, and a TV show that didn't make it. Texas is the, lone star State...Nice She Wolf, you had me fooled 😂
Gotta love this girls dedication to the costume! Movie: I can assure you this is not the least bit amusing. Dawn: "Is for me" ROFLMAO
Main actor ( the wolf) was in Midnight Madness with Michael J Fox
They made sequel years later called American Werewolf in Paris were main character is their child.
Porno theatres died away instantly with the invention of cheap VCRs. At 60, I'm too young to remember being able to go to one. Hearing the stories, I'm very glad I never experienced it!
You’re the cutest werwolf I’ve ever seen!
Oh bless ya girl!!!
Was actually least directed by John Landis, who directed Black or White by Michael Jackson, its because this was one of MJ's favourites, Landis also directed Thriller his probably biggest one ever done the titular album is one of the best selling music albums of all time.
Dude, that costume. 😆
Anyway, great movie. Saw this as a junior in high school back in '81.
David Naughton has been in several movies, television, & recordings but i think his most notable role was a series of commercials for the soft drink dr. pepper around the time of this movie
Dawn, while your into black and white movies and werewolves, check out "The Wolf Man" from 1941, it is a classic, you'll definitely feel sorrow for the wolfman.
Yes back in the day Porn theatres where a real thing, and Soho was full adult (sleazy) entertainment. None of trendy eating places and coffee shops like today. I have found most of the locations used. Only the outside of the cinema (it was the Eros cinema, 7 Shaftesbury Ave) was used the film was used anything inside was a set. The Eros closed on 14th Feb 1985 the final film shown apparently was Bolero. It was then converted into the Gap which was there until it closed in about 2020, it'd currently been redeveloped.
I'm going to over-share for a moment but when I visited London in 1985, I went to that porn theater in Piccadilly Circus. I was a fan of American Werewolf in London, having seen it when I first came out. So I knew I must look for that porn theater, and voila, it was a real place! This was back in the day before home computers ... right at the beginning of the home video explosion. So, porn theaters were still a thing back then!