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AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON(1981)

Today's movie; not one of the NYTimesBest1000; but pretty good for a B-break from all the high art of the last week.

It is not quite as good as we remembered from the first time around in theaters; still it is a lot better than John Landis' followup; AAWWINPARIS in 1995 which we mistakenly ordered and watched anyway the day after we saw AN AMERICAN IN PARIS, the musical. And so on. We were just dicking around with the titles. Now the game is over.

This film is a lot of fun and has a lot of jokes built in to relieve the tedium of the story which does not deviate one iota from any werewolf legend you have heard. WW bites boy, boy bites people, boy gets visitation from victims who let him know he has to end the line by dying or else they will walk the earth as the undead. The werewolf in this is very good as is the young man who plays the college student who gets bit. Not one of the young actors in the film had any real success in films afterward; mostly B's. Begin as a B and end as a B. It must be like being in a porn movie. You get marked and that is it. I am giving it a 3 out of a Netflix5.