*Soundtrack includes multiple versions of "Blue Moon" (Bobby Vinton, Sam Cooke, The Marcels), "Moondance" (Van Morrison), "Bad Moon Rising" (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
Entertainment Magazine
Favorite movies that have had an impact on me - #44 - An American Werewolf in London (1981) - Director John Landis served up a movie that was equally funny, scary, and gross — and extremely entertaining. The special werewolf transformation effects changed make-up and movies for years. Today it's all computers, but there is something to be said for the movie magic of a slowly deteriorating Griffin Dunne, who keeps visiting his pal David Naughton to urge him to end his reign as a newly-minted werewolf. Jenny Agutter is lovely as always, and lends some real pathos as someone who has unwittingly fallen in love with a monster. And the clever movie soundtrack* keeps things light in a movie monster story that, taking its cue from classic horror films, can't really have a happy ending.
*Soundtrack includes multiple versions of "Blue Moon" (Bobby Vinton, Sam Cooke, The Marcels), "Moondance" (Van Morrison), "Bad Moon Rising" (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
*Soundtrack includes multiple versions of "Blue Moon" (Bobby Vinton, Sam Cooke, The Marcels), "Moondance" (Van Morrison), "Bad Moon Rising" (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
