Directed by: John Landis
Starring: David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, and Joe Belcher
An American Werewolf In London Movie Summary
In An American Werewolf In London, David and Jack are two young Americans backpacking through Europe. Now we all know that nothing good happens to young Americans in Europe, so since they’re guys, kidnapping and raping is probably not in the cards. They make their way to the Moors of England where they stop by the Slaughtered Lamb, a local pub. They get a cool reception from the people in the Lamb who convince them to leave into the night. But don’t worry, the full moon provides enough light.
After straying from the road, they hear a roar and are attacked by some sort of an animal. Jack is mauled to death and David is attacked, but survives. Thanks primarily to the lovely people of the Lamb. The people from the Lamb do to David and Jack what we did to the English in WWII – they help after most of the damage has already been done. They shoot the lycanthrope, saving David.
David ends up in a hospital where he has some frightening dreams that make absolutely no sense, unless of course, you have some horrible Nazi-zombie fetish. David also courts a nurse with Nightingale syndrome – she wants to get her some crazy American strange. David also begins to have visions of his mauled and dead friend Jack who informs David that they were mauled by a werewolf and that Jack and all of the werewolf’s victims remain undead and in limbo until the lycan’s bloodline is destroyed. Why this plot line? Because this is a British werewolf story, and they are very much into doing the honorable thing, so suicide has to fit into that equation. Jack tells David that he is now a werewolf and will change on the next full moon.
David is released from the hospital and the nurse tells him that she is just a horny, little slut and wants to bang. So like any American, or person with a penis, he accepts her offer. They cuddle in the shower and he shows her that Americans know what a tongue is for.
David’s doctor travels to the Moors and the Slaughtered Lamb to investigate David’s attack. The townspeople convince him of the truth. They boys were attacked by a werewolf and David is now one too.
The day of the first full moon comes, about an hour into the film, and David makes his transformation into a Lycan. He takes off into the London streets and before any English wizards can say Expelaramus, he kills and eats 6 people, waking up the next morning naked in the wolf section of the zoo.
His nurse girlfriend tries to take him to see the doctor, but David learns what he is and what he’s done. David is so distraught that he runs away and tries to get arrested by uttering the worst possible things you can in England:
“The Queen is a man, Prince Charles is a faggot, and Shakespeare was Irish.”
Despite his crazy ranting, David isn’t able to get arrested and takes off. He sees his dead friend and goes to a place where thinks there will be little to no people, which is apparently a porn theater in Piccadilly Circus. While there he watches the English porn classic See You Next Wednesday, not to be confused with the far superior sequel, See You Next Tuesday. While there, David meets all his Limbo-loving victims from the night before. They plead and argue with him to kill himself before the full moon comes again that night. Unfortunately, in this part of England, there is a full moon two nights in a row and David changes again and goes on another killing and feeding rampage.
He ends up in an alley where the slutty nurse tries to calm him down. He lunges to attack her and is shot dead by the police.
The moral of the story? There isn’t one, other than the reminder that a European Vacation is never as cool as or interesting as your yuppie world traveling friends claim it is. Either that or human flesh is far tastier than most English food.
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