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Aug 9 08 9:48 AM
GaryP11111 wrote: Well, I do. I went to the theater in 1981 thinking I was getting a horror movie and I got a silly movie which did not take itself very seriously. Those dumb scenes with the guy's dead decaying pal visiting him and cracking gags was the height of stupidity for a "horror movie". Those are genius! With that little piece of wiggling flesh? Genius! What I find enchanting about the humor in AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON is that it feels real. That's how two buds walking across the moors would talk to each other while confronted by a howling, growling unknown. Those first scenes set up the relationship between the two and the later visits from the dead friend remains consistent to those opening sequences. Even in the unreality of those visits their relationship is convincing. They're two close friends with a dizzy sense of humor. That's also how a lot of people face very serious situations. Genius!
Well, I do. I went to the theater in 1981 thinking I was getting a horror movie and I got a silly movie which did not take itself very seriously. Those dumb scenes with the guy's dead decaying pal visiting him and cracking gags was the height of stupidity for a "horror movie".
I feel the same way as Gary. Genius!
The entire opening of the film, from the time the guys get off the sheep truck to the time the werewolf is gunned down on the moors, is some of the scariest film making I've ever seen.
The visits from Jack later in the film are both humorous (in that you almost forget he's a corpse) and chilling ("Beware the moon, David"). I think the humor fits because David doesn't know for sure if Jack is really there or if it's a hallucination. Rather than acting like a spooky zombie from beyond, Jack is acting just like he always did, casual and amusing, yet grim and stern when time starts to run out for David. It all adds to the surreal nature of what's going on (Is David imagining this? Is Jack real? What the heck is going on here?!).
Maybe not everybody's cup of tea, but certainly one of my all-time favorite films.
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