Dos universitarios americanos en un viaje a pie por Gran Bretaña son atacados por un hombre-lobo del que ninguno de los lugareños admite la existencia.Dos universitarios americanos en un viaje a pie por Gran Bretaña son atacados por un hombre-lobo del que ninguno de los lugareños admite la existencia.Dos universitarios americanos en un viaje a pie por Gran Bretaña son atacados por un hombre-lobo del que ninguno de los lugareños admite la existencia.
- Dirección
- Guionista
- Elenco
- Ganó 1 premio Óscar
- 3 premios ganados y 4 nominaciones en total
- Kermit the Frog
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Opiniones destacadas
The appeal to this film is the combination of horror, suspense, action and humor. The latter actually is the key ingredient because this can become a downright scary movie. The levity here and there is welcome relief. There is just the right amount of contrast between horror and comedy.
For parents wanting to know, there also is a fair amount of rough language and there two sex scenes, one as part of the story and one "on screen" in a porn- movie theater where the two male leads meet late in the story.
Jenny Agutter is the love interest in here, a very pretty woman whom Americans audiences aren't that familiar with. It isn't just her: neither of the two leading (American) male actors in this popular movie ever became stars, either.
An entertaining but silly sequel came out almost two decades later, "An American Werewolf in Paris." I own both movies but much prefer this one.
The film's sense of humor is definitely because the film's director and writer, John Landis, has directed so many great comedies. If you gave the same premise to a much more serious filmmaker, they probably would have made a straight horror film, subtracting all of the brilliant laughs that Landis gives us. Of course, part of what makes "An American Werewolf in London" so special and so entertaining is how hilarious it is. It's almost unbelievable that a movie with so many horrific and gory moments can also be laugh out loud funny throughout.
Another important part of "An American Werewolf in London" is the use of the acclaimed, award winning special effects, that earned Rick Baker a well deserved Oscar win. The werewolf transformation scene definitely lives up to the high expectations anyone viewing the film for the first time may have. It's legitimately disturbing, and amazingly well done!
This is the kind of production that could go in a few different directions, and for someone like Landis's skills it could've gone in those directions, either one, considering his background. It could have been a send-up much like his Kentucky Fried Movie. It could have been just dumb, pure camp like one of his lesser comedies of the 90s. But here he's really sticking to his guns to make it really believably scary, but also with a sly, coarse, and crude sense of humor about it. It's almost in tune to what would come a few years later with Ghostbusters, only without the mega-wit and overall mainstream appeal. It's a cult item that probably isn't seen by many as Landis's other films, yet I still remember things very well from the film years later, indelible things like the use of songs (obvious, sure, by 'moon' being all over the place, but everything from Van Morrison to CCR to the main Blue Moon theme used during the crossover are really dead-perfect for what's needed). Aside from the obvious make-up scenes, I remember being both freaked and delighted by the undead exchanges with David, especially when it finally reaches its purest absurdity in the movie theater scene.
And even the ending, unlike other Landis films, is with a tinge of tragedy and sadness. This is not the ending a typical comedy director would bring, as by now we've really gotten on the side of David, the scorned protagonist turned bloody villain by way of a curse. Some of the scenes that end up cutting back to the old rural village, as I also remember it, were not my favorite scenes as they brought more of the superstitious stuff that is not necessarily needed. It's the bits with Naughton, with Dunne, and even with the lady of the film that make it worthwhile. It's fun but not too goofy or bad B-movie-like, and it's scary without being cheap. It's basically the finest synthesis yet from the filmmaker to combine his gory theatrics with his firm, cool sense of humor. It's also one of my favorite films of 1981.
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- TriviaDue to the controversial lack of recognition for El hombre elefante (1980), make-up and industry technological contributions became recognized by the Academy Awards in 1981. Make-up artist Rick Baker was the first to receive an Oscar in the new category. William Tuttle was the first make-up effects artist to receive an honorary Oscar, for his work on Las siete caras del Dr. Lao (1964). At 31, Baker was also the youngest person to win the award, a record that was later tied by Tami Lane for Las crónicas de Narnia: El león, la bruja y el ropero (2005).
- ErroresRepeated mentions of werewolf attacks during a full moon are ignored when David undergoes his transformation on two consecutive nights. There is only one full moon during a lunar cycle. If the moon is full on a Saturday night, for example, it cannot be truly full on the next night, Sunday.
- Citas
David: I want you to arrest me, you asshole!
Bobby in Trafalgar Square: There's no call for that kind of language.
David: Queen Elizabeth is a man! Prince Charles is a faggot! Winston Churchill was full of shit!
Bobby in Trafalgar Square: That's enough.
David: No! Let go of me!
Alex: David, please!
David: Shakespeare's French! Fuck! Shit! Cunt! Shit!
- Créditos curiososKermit the Frog and Miss Piggy star as themselves.
- Versiones alternativasUniversal Studios re-mixed the film's monaural soundtrack to Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS for the 20th anniversary "Collector's Edition" DVD, replacing the older sound effects and adding some new ones (see also Tiburón (1975)).
- Extra thunderclap sound effects were added in the scene when David and Jack are walking in the moors and it starts to rain.
- The first werewolf can now be heard growling in the rear channels as it circles David and Jack. A louder growl has been added to the rear-left channel after Jack says "It's circling us" to make the audience jump.
- All the gunshots and car crash sound effects have been replaced.
- The train in the "London tube" scene can now be heard moving from one channel to another
- Despite already being bad enough, the entire mix is inexplicably pitched down a half-pitch and sounds very different from the original mix.
- ConexionesEdited into Poppers (1984)
- Bandas sonorasBlue Moon
Music by Richard Rodgers (uncredited)
Lyrics by Lorenz Hart (uncredited)
Performed by Bobby Vinton
Courtesy of Columbia Records
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Detalles
- Fecha de lanzamiento
- Países de origen
- Idioma
- También se conoce como
- Un hombre lobo americano en Londres
- Locaciones de filmación
- Crickadarn, Powys, Gales, Reino Unido(East Proctor)
- Productoras
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Taquilla
- Presupuesto
- USD 10,000,000 (estimado)
- Total en EE. UU. y Canadá
- USD 30,565,292
- Fin de semana de estreno en EE. UU. y Canadá
- USD 3,786,512
- 23 ago 1981
- Total a nivel mundial
- USD 30,820,576
- Tiempo de ejecución1 hora 37 minutos
- Color
- Mezcla de sonido
- Relación de aspecto
- 1.85 : 1