History Awesome / AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon

* The policemen who rush the theater to prevent werewolf!David from escaping into the streets. Their efforts ultimately fail, but they put up a hell of a fight and eventually succeed in trapping him in an alley where he has no means of escape.

* On a meta-level, [[PainfulTransformation the transformation sequence]]. This was done ''without'' CG but just clever use of camera tricks and makeup. Rick Baker won the inaugural UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Best Makeup in 1981 as a result.
* The attack in the tube station. Perhaps the best directed scene of Landis' career.

* A meta example, the first transformation scene. This movie depicts a very agonizing transformation, with David's body gradually becoming more and more wolf-like in appearance until just flat-out looking like a deformed husky. Each shot adds more details to the transformation, with very few cheap tricks such as jump cutting. The result is the greatest werewolf transformation bar none. And the kicker? ''This was all done without CGI.''

* The pub-goers of the Slaughtered Lamb being convinced to go and rescue the boys. They're too late to save Jack and stop David from getting infected, but they banded together with numerous fire arms when earlier they had meekly refused to exit the pub as they knew the werewolf was out and about.
** Special kudos to the lady barkeep, who's presumably the one who ''shamed'' the men into going out after the boys.

* A dark one, but David's second rampage. He only kills a few people directly but in the panic, cars crash, people get trampled and run over. The fact werewolf!David avoids getting killed in the chaos is awesome enough.

* The pub-goers of the Slaugthered Lamb being convinced to go and rescue the boys. They're too late to save Jack and stop David from getting infected, but they banded together with numerous fire arms when earlier they had meekly refused to exit the pub as they knew the werewolf was out and about.

* A Meta example, the first transformation scene. Someone else will have to describe it -- my words are not awesome enough.
** Let me try: This movie depicts a very agonizing transformation, with David's body gradually becoming more and more wolf-like in appearance untill just flat-out looking like a deformed husky. Each shot adds more details to the transformation, with very few cheap tricks such as jump cutting. The result is the greatest werewolf transformation bar none. And the kicker? ''This was all before the days of CGI.''

* A dark one, but David's second rampage. He only kills a few people directly but in the panic, cars crash, people get trampled and runover. The fact werewolf!David avoids getting killed in the chaos was awesome enough.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The first transformation scene. Someone else will have to describe it -- my words are not awesome enough.

* The attack in the tube station. Perhaps the best directed scene of Landis' career.

*** Also, it looks painful as '''hell'''. The first time a transformation was shown that way.

** Let me try: This movie depicts a very agonizing transformation, with David's body gradually becoming more and more wolf-like in appearance untill just flat-out looking like a deformed husky. Each shot adds more details to the transformation, with very few cheap tricks such as jump cutting. The result is the greatest werewolf transformation bar none. And the kicker? ''This was all before the days of CGI.''

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The first transformation scene. Someone else will have to describe it -- my words are not awesome enough.