A near perfect blend of horror and comedy.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 15, 2024

A classic for more than its outstanding visual effects, John Landis' film deftly explores queer and anti-semitic elements via its lead character David in ways that are both coded and explicit. Also: these set pieces go HARD.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 10, 2024

This is a revolutionary movie... It pull's off the difficult trick of revitalizing the genre while parodying at the same time.

| Jul 27, 2022

If you’ve never owned this film on home video before, then this is the edition to buy. If you want the best possible video quality, this is the edition to buy.

| Original Score: 4.8/5 | May 16, 2022

Until it derails at the end, John Landis' tongue-in-bloody-cheek thriller does a nice job of mixing its horror with humor.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 20, 2022

I don't think anyone could argue that Landis is an excellent filmmaker, and An American Werewolf in London is a prime example of his talent.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 15, 2022

There is something inexpressibly fresh and zany in this kind of macabre humor, a delighting in the sheer movie nonsense of it all, that makes American Werewolf a wacky marriage of the sophomoric and the surreal.

| Nov 3, 2021

...what a modern film should be; the story is simple and uncontrived, the scope personal and intense, and stakes small but engaging...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 21, 2021

The hallucinations and gnarly ghosts give this movie an unexpected Smorgasborg of horror.

| Jul 1, 2021

...an entirely erratic yet ultimately satisfying endeavor...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 9, 2020

The prosthetics and animatronics of the initial transformation sequence are the unforgettable (and Oscar-winning) highlight of the picture.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 31, 2020

David's writhing discomfort in his own skin marks not just the monstrous metamorphosis in and of genre, but also that deep sense of estrangement experienced by any well-meaning if gauche tourist tripping up on local lore and mores.

| Oct 29, 2019

While it doesn't bore or anger the public, it is one of those films that's forgotten as soon as it's over. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 20, 2019

It feels increasingly like a symbol of traveler abroad alienation-what trying to live in a place that isn't home can feel like: confusing, rageful, even physically debilitating.

| Dec 7, 2018

Aside from the special effects, this film is a fun time at the movies, but not as memorable as other horror classics.

| Dec 7, 2018

I suspect Landis hoped to keep moviegoers eerily disarmed with an unpredictable mixture of wacky and terrifying touches. Unfortunately, his own touch... is so slack and uncertain that the movie ends up dramatically shapeless.

| May 9, 2018

John Landis teaches us two things in An American Werewolf in London (1981): turning into a werewolf is a very painful process, and the dead are boring!

| Jan 26, 2017

A film that, despite 35 years of evolution in special effects, do not surpass the carnal naturalness of this one. [Full review in Spanish]

| Nov 7, 2016

Landis maintains the delicate balance between horror and humor until the final scene's gratuitous series of car crashes.

| Aug 16, 2013

Director John Landis here pulls off the difficult trick of revitalising the horror genre while parodying it at the same time.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 16, 2013