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* DuelingMovies: Both this and ''Film/TheHowling'' came out the same year and both feature a detailed, painful-looking TransformationTrauma sequence.
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* DuelingMovies: Both this and ''Film/TheHowling'' ''Film/{{The Howling|1981}}'' came out the same year and both feature a detailed, painful-looking TransformationTrauma sequence.sequence. However, the way the werewolves are depicted differs in other areas (for starters, the werewolves of ''The Howling'' can transform at will and retain their minds when transformed, making them a lot more actively malicious compared to the ones in ''An American Werewolf in London'').
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* FollowTheLeader: The film's success likely inspired the slew of SFX heavy Horror-Comedies throughout the '80s such as ''{{Film/Gremlins}}'', ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'', ''Film/FrightNight1985'', ''Film/TheReturnOfTheLivingDead'', ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'', ''Film/TheLostBoys'', ''Film/EvilDead2'' and ''{{Film/Beetlejuice}}'' just to name a few.
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* FollowTheLeader: The film's success likely inspired kickstarted the slew of SFX heavy Horror-Comedies throughout the '80s such as ''{{Film/Gremlins}}'', ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'', ''Film/FrightNight1985'', ''Film/TheReturnOfTheLivingDead'', ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'', ''Film/TheLostBoys'', ''Film/EvilDead2'' and ''{{Film/Beetlejuice}}'' just to name a few.
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* PlayingAgainstType: Directing version. John Landis had become known as a comedy director, and many audiences assumed that the film was a straight-up comedy (especially when it was advertised as being from the director of ''National Lampoon'') - and a number of audience members ran out of the cinemas when discovering it was a horror. While it is a comedic horror, it's firmly in the middle when it comes to the SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror.
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* PlayingAgainstType: Directing version. John Landis had become known as a comedy director, and many audiences assumed that the film was a straight-up comedy (especially when it was advertised as being from the director of ''National Lampoon'') ''Animal House'') - and a number of audience members ran out of the cinemas when discovering it was a horror. While it is a comedic horror, it's firmly in the middle when it comes to the SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror.
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* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: John Landis first wrote the script in the late 60s, but shelved it for over a decade. He hadn't directed at the time, and it wasn't until he became established in Hollywood through ''Film/AnimalHouse'', ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'' and his cult hit ''Schlock'' that he was able to get financing for it.
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* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: John Landis first wrote the script in the late 60s, '60s, but shelved it for over a decade. He hadn't directed at the time, and it wasn't until he became established in Hollywood through ''Film/AnimalHouse'', ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'' and his cult hit ''Schlock'' that he was able to get financing for it.
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* FollowTheLeader: The film's success likely inspired the slew of SFX heavy Horror-Comedies throughout the '80s such as ''{{Film/Gremlins}}', ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'', ''Film/FrightNight1985'', ''Film/TheReturnOfTheLivingDead'', ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'', ''Film/TheLostBoys'', ''Film/EvilDead2'' and ''{{Film/Beetlejuice}}'' just to name a few.
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* FollowTheLeader: The film's success likely inspired the slew of SFX heavy Horror-Comedies throughout the '80s such as ''{{Film/Gremlins}}', ''{{Film/Gremlins}}'', ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'', ''Film/FrightNight1985'', ''Film/TheReturnOfTheLivingDead'', ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'', ''Film/TheLostBoys'', ''Film/EvilDead2'' and ''{{Film/Beetlejuice}}'' just to name a few.
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* FollowTheLeader: A whole slew of 80s horror comedies followed this one's influence, such as ''{{Film/Beetlejuice}}'', ''{{Film/Gremlins}}'' and ''Film/EvilDead2''.
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* FollowTheLeader: A whole The film's success likely inspired the slew of 80s horror comedies followed this one's influence, SFX heavy Horror-Comedies throughout the '80s such as ''{{Film/Beetlejuice}}'', ''{{Film/Gremlins}}'' ''{{Film/Gremlins}}', ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'', ''Film/FrightNight1985'', ''Film/TheReturnOfTheLivingDead'', ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'', ''Film/TheLostBoys'', ''Film/EvilDead2'' and ''Film/EvilDead2''.''{{Film/Beetlejuice}}'' just to name a few.
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* ReferencedBy: Creator/BryanSinger has confirmed that the scene when Angel transforms into Archangel in ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' was inspired by ''An American Werewolf in London''.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: The Moors were filmed around the Black Mountains in Wales. And the interiors of the Slaughtered Lamb were done in Surrey.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: The Moors moors were filmed around the Black Mountains in Wales. And the interiors of the The Slaughtered Lamb were done in Surrey.
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* {{Defictionalization}}: The Slaughtered Lamb Pub. Except it's not anywhere in England, it's in Greenwich Village in New York City.
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* {{Defictionalization}}: The Slaughtered Lamb Pub. Except it's not anywhere in England, it's in Greenwich Village in New York City. Unfortunately, it has since closed due to not paying its taxes.
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* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: John Landis first wrote the script in the late 60s, but shelved it for over a decade. He hadn't directed at the time, and it wasn't until he became established in Hollywood through ''Film/NationalLampoonsAnimalHouse'', ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'' and his cult hit ''Schlock'' that he was able to get financing for it.
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* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: John Landis first wrote the script in the late 60s, but shelved it for over a decade. He hadn't directed at the time, and it wasn't until he became established in Hollywood through ''Film/NationalLampoonsAnimalHouse'', ''Film/AnimalHouse'', ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'' and his cult hit ''Schlock'' that he was able to get financing for it.
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* CreatorBreakdown: Griffin Dunne recalls becoming very upset and distressed the first time he saw himself in the undead make-up. He found it extremely hard to play ThePollyanna after he'd seen what he would look like as a rotting corpse.
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* CreatorBreakdown: Griffin Dunne Creator/GriffinDunne recalls becoming very upset and distressed the first time he saw himself in the undead make-up. He found it extremely hard to play ThePollyanna after he'd seen what he would look like as a rotting corpse.
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* BigNameFan: Music/MichaelJackson loved the film so much he insisted on hiring John Landis to direct his music video for "Thriller" - likewise bringing on board Rick Baker for make-up, Elmer Bernstein for additional scoring, Robert Paynter for cinematography and Deborah Nadoolman for costume design.
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* RealSongThemeTune:
** "Bluuuue Mooooooon..."
** All the soundtrack songs deal with the moon: "Blue Moon," "Moondance," "Bad Moon Rising."
** "Bluuuue Mooooooon..."
** All the soundtrack songs deal with the moon: "Blue Moon," "Moondance," "Bad Moon Rising."
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* DoingItForTheArt:
** Griffin Dunne had to endure hours in the make-up chair, especially for the "phase two" stuff. The rotting teeth were especially difficult to say his lines with. He's described the make-up as "like being eaten by bugs".
** David Naughton as well was performing half the movie fully nude, including one lengthy sequence in a zoo that ran over schedule and had actual members of the public crowding around to watch. For the transformation scene, he had to spend the day in a hole under an elevated floor after five hours of make-up application.
--> "I was not one of those actors who said,' OK that's it, I'm done'. I was really a team player, which means I'd stay there and keep shooting until John was happy."
** Griffin Dunne had to endure hours in the make-up chair, especially for the "phase two" stuff. The rotting teeth were especially difficult to say his lines with. He's described the make-up as "like being eaten by bugs".
** David Naughton as well was performing half the movie fully nude, including one lengthy sequence in a zoo that ran over schedule and had actual members of the public crowding around to watch. For the transformation scene, he had to spend the day in a hole under an elevated floor after five hours of make-up application.
--> "I was not one of those actors who said,' OK that's it, I'm done'. I was really a team player, which means I'd stay there and keep shooting until John was happy."
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* StillbornFranchise: There was to be a sequel involving Debbie Klein trying to track down David and having nightmares about Nazi mutants. Eventually, she would have found David's nurse Alex, who is also a werewolf and dating David (whose soul is trapped on Earth for some reason).
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* StillbornFranchise: There was to be a sequel involving Debbie Klein trying to track down David and having nightmares about Nazi mutants. Eventually, she would have found David's nurse Alex, who is had also somehow been turned into a werewolf and is dating David (whose soul is trapped on Earth for some reason).
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* AwesomeDearBoy: John Landis invited three hundred members of London's Metropolitan Police to a screening of ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'' to provoke this reaction and persuade them to allow filming in Piccadilly Circus. It worked, and ''An American Werewolf in London'' was the first film to be shot there in fifteen years.
* BigNameFan: Music/MichaelJackson loved the film so much he insisted on hiring John Landis to direct his music video for "Thriller" - likewise bringing on board Rick Baker for make-up, Elmer Bernstein for additional scoring, Robert Paynter for cinematography and Deborah Nadoolman for costume design.
* CaliforniaDoubling: The Moors were filmed around the Black Mountains in Wales. And the interiors of the Slaughtered Lamb were done in Surrey.
* ContractualPurity: David Naughton had previously been promoting Dr Pepper for four years in commercials. The company ended their association with him after he appeared naked in this film. Ironically, David was cast after John Landis reportedly saw one of these Dr Pepper commercials.
* CreatorBreakdown: Griffin Dunne recalls becoming very upset and distressed the first time he saw himself in the undead make-up. He found it extremely hard to play ThePollyanna after he'd seen what he would look like as a rotting corpse.
* CreatorCouple: Deborah Nadoolman, the film's costume designer, was John Landis's wife.
* CreatorInJoke: Alex reads ''Literature/AConnecticutYankeeInKingArthursCourt'' to David while he's in hospital. This is because John Landis was a huge fan of the book and had unsuccessfully tried to get an adaptation made.
* BigNameFan: Music/MichaelJackson loved the film so much he insisted on hiring John Landis to direct his music video for "Thriller" - likewise bringing on board Rick Baker for make-up, Elmer Bernstein for additional scoring, Robert Paynter for cinematography and Deborah Nadoolman for costume design.
* CaliforniaDoubling: The Moors were filmed around the Black Mountains in Wales. And the interiors of the Slaughtered Lamb were done in Surrey.
* ContractualPurity: David Naughton had previously been promoting Dr Pepper for four years in commercials. The company ended their association with him after he appeared naked in this film. Ironically, David was cast after John Landis reportedly saw one of these Dr Pepper commercials.
* CreatorBreakdown: Griffin Dunne recalls becoming very upset and distressed the first time he saw himself in the undead make-up. He found it extremely hard to play ThePollyanna after he'd seen what he would look like as a rotting corpse.
* CreatorCouple: Deborah Nadoolman, the film's costume designer, was John Landis's wife.
* CreatorInJoke: Alex reads ''Literature/AConnecticutYankeeInKingArthursCourt'' to David while he's in hospital. This is because John Landis was a huge fan of the book and had unsuccessfully tried to get an adaptation made.
* CreatorBacklash: John Landis regretted having to cut some things down to get an R-rating in the US; notably the sex scene between Alex and David had to be made less explicit, as well as a shot of undead!Jack trying to eat a piece of toast that falls out of his torn throat.
* DeletedScene: [[https://lostmediawiki.com/An_American_Werewolf_in_London_(lost_footage_from_uncut_version_of_movie;_1981) A scene where the tramps get killed in junkyard was cut]]. This was allegedly because test audiences reacted negatively to it.
* DoingItForTheArt:
** Griffin Dunne had to endure hours in the make-up chair, especially for the "phase two" stuff. The rotting teeth were especially difficult to say his lines with. He's described the make-up as "like being eaten by bugs".
** David Naughton as well was performing half the movie fully nude, including one lengthy sequence in a zoo that ran over schedule and had actual members of the public crowding around to watch. For the transformation scene, he had to spend the day in a hole under an elevated floor after five hours of make-up application.
--> "I was not one of those actors who said,' OK that's it, I'm done'. I was really a team player, which means I'd stay there and keep shooting until John was happy."
* DoingItForTheArt:
** Griffin Dunne had to endure hours in the make-up chair, especially for the "phase two" stuff. The rotting teeth were especially difficult to say his lines with. He's described the make-up as "like being eaten by bugs".
** David Naughton as well was performing half the movie fully nude, including one lengthy sequence in a zoo that ran over schedule and had actual members of the public crowding around to watch. For the transformation scene, he had to spend the day in a hole under an elevated floor after five hours of make-up application.
--> "I was not one of those actors who said,' OK that's it, I'm done'. I was really a team player, which means I'd stay there and keep shooting until John was happy."
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* MissingEpisode: [[https://lostmediawiki.com/An_American_Werewolf_in_London_(lost_footage_from_uncut_version_of_movie;_1981) FollowTheLeader: A scene where whole slew of 80s horror comedies followed this one's influence, such as ''{{Film/Beetlejuice}}'', ''{{Film/Gremlins}}'' and ''Film/EvilDead2''.
* LoopingLines: David's famous line "I'm a fucking werewolf, for God's sake!" had to be dubbed over with "I'm a ''famous'' werewolf" for thetramps get killed in junkyard TV airing.
* PlayingAgainstType: Directing version. John Landis had become known as a comedy director, and many audiences assumed that the film wascut]].a straight-up comedy (especially when it was advertised as being from the director of ''National Lampoon'') - and a number of audience members ran out of the cinemas when discovering it was a horror. While it is a comedic horror, it's firmly in the middle when it comes to the SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror.
* LoopingLines: David's famous line "I'm a fucking werewolf, for God's sake!" had to be dubbed over with "I'm a ''famous'' werewolf" for the
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* ShootTheMoney: John Landis later said that the transformation sequence probably should have been cut down a bit, but he was so impressed with Rick Baker's special effects that he spent more time on the scene than he normally would have.
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** When David and Jack are walking at the beginning, Griffin Dunne's nose was running in the cold weather. So for one take, David Naughton started {{Corpsing}} at the sight of Griffin wiping his nose, and he in turn laughed when responding to David's next line. John Landis liked the spontaneity and left it in.
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* {{Tuckerization}}: David's sister is called Rachel, and his brother Max, after John Landis's children.
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** Griffin Dunne was almost declined a work permit to star in the film, as the British Actors' Equity protested that the role of Jack could easily go to a number of American actors living in the UK. John Landis threatened to rewrite the script and set the movie in Paris ([[Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInParis yes, really]]) - and Griffin was given his permit.
** David was supposed to have MaleFrontalNudity during both dream sequences and the transformation. But David Naughton revealed that he was not circumcised, so John Landis carefully avoided showing anything full frontal.
** The porno theatre was actually meant to be one that showed old cartoons, as the script was first written in TheSixties. By the time of filming in 1981, the cartoon theatres in London had been replaced with porn theatres, and the script was updated accordingly.
** Jenny Agutter almost turned down the role of Alex, as she was reluctant to do a horror film. She's glad she didn't, and is proud of how beloved it's been over the years.
** David was supposed to have MaleFrontalNudity during both dream sequences and the transformation. But David Naughton revealed that he was not circumcised, so John Landis carefully avoided showing anything full frontal.
** The porno theatre was actually meant to be one that showed old cartoons, as the script was first written in TheSixties. By the time of filming in 1981, the cartoon theatres in London had been replaced with porn theatres, and the script was updated accordingly.
** Jenny Agutter almost turned down the role of Alex, as she was reluctant to do a horror film. She's glad she didn't, and is proud of how beloved it's been over the years.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Because David calls Prince Charles' sexuality into question in the film, a disclaimer was added to the credits which read "Lycanthrope films limited wishes to extend its heartfelt congratulations to Lady Diana Spencer and His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales on the occasion of their marriage -- July 29th 1981".
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Because David calls Prince Charles' sexuality into question in the film, a disclaimer was added to the credits which read "Lycanthrope films limited wishes to extend its heartfelt congratulations to Lady Diana Spencer and His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales on the occasion of their marriage - July 29th 1981".
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Because David calls Prince Charles' sexuality into question in the film, a disclaimer was added to the credits which read "Lycanthrope films limited wishes to extend its heartfelt congratulations to Lady Diana Spencer and His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales on the occasion of their marriage - -- July 29th 1981".
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** Music/ElmerBernstein wrote and recorded music intended for the transformation scene, which would have given the scene a more traditional horror vibe. Landis opted to use Music/SamCooke's version of "Blue Moon" instead; Bernstein's music was later released separately as "Metamorphosis".
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* RomanceOnTheSet: Averted. In the actors' commentary for the film, Creator/DavidNaughton notes sadly how he made tentative advances towards Jenny Agutter, only to be summarily shot down.
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* StillbornFranchise: There was to be a sequel involving Debbie Klein trying to track down David and having nightmares about Nazi mutants. Eventually, she would have found David's nurse Alex, who is also a werewolf and dating David (who's soul is trapped on Earth for some reason).
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* RomanceOnTheSet: Averted. In the actors' commentary for the film, John McNaughton notes sadly how he made tentative advances towards Jenny Agutter, only to be summarily shot down.
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* ActorAllusion: The nurse (played by Creator/JennyAgutter) has a religious awakening and joins the Order of St. Raymond Nonnatus; her Name in Religion? "Sister Julianne."
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** Universal wanted Creator/DanAykroyd and Creator/JohnBelushi to play the leads, but Creator/JohnLandis refused as he wanted to use new faces and because they were busy working on ''Film/{{Neighbors}}'' which they wanted Landis to direct.
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** Universal wanted Creator/DanAykroyd and Creator/JohnBelushi to play the leads, but Creator/JohnLandis refused as he wanted to use new faces and because they were busy working on ''Film/{{Neighbors}}'' ''Film/Neighbors1981'' which they wanted Landis to direct.
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* UsefulNotes/AcademyAward: Was awarded the first Oscar for Best Makeup in the year the category was established. The Oscar was presented by Creator/VincentPrice.
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** Landis originally wanted three other songs to add to the soundtrack: Music/CatStevens wouldn't allow "Moonshadow" to be used, because he had stopped allowing his secular music to be licensed for films following his conversion to Islam. Music/BobDylan wouldn't allow his version of "Blue Moon" to be used in an R-rated film, as he had just begun his brief conversion to Christianity. Music/ElvisPresley's version of "Blue Moon" proved unavailable, due to the ongoing lawsuits involving his estate.
** Landis tried to land Creator/AlbertRBroccoli as producer, after he made some uncredited re-writes on ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe''. It turned out to be a non-starter. When Broccoli read the script, he told Landis, "Hell no, it's weird!" As a small consolation, the bus driver, for the Piccadilly Circus scene, in this movie, was Vic Armstrong, who would later be employed as the Stunt Coordinator in Film/JamesBond movies.
** Landis tried to land Creator/AlbertRBroccoli as producer, after he made some uncredited re-writes on ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe''. It turned out to be a non-starter. When Broccoli read the script, he told Landis, "Hell no, it's weird!" As a small consolation, the bus driver, for the Piccadilly Circus scene, in this movie, was Vic Armstrong, who would later be employed as the Stunt Coordinator in Film/JamesBond movies.
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* DawsonCasting: David Naughton was 30 and Griffin Dunne was 26. While their ages are never stated, their characters are referred to as "boys" and appear to be college kids in their early 20s.
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* MagnumOpus: This is Creator/JohnLandis' favourite film of his own.
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** In it's earliest incarnation, Landis had wanted Creator/DonaldSutherland for his lead. Landis had worked with Sutherland on the set of ''Film/KellysHeroes'', which is where he got the idea for a werewolf movie in the first place.
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** In it's its earliest incarnation, Landis had wanted Creator/DonaldSutherland for his lead. Landis had worked with Sutherland on the set of ''Film/KellysHeroes'', which is where he got the idea for a werewolf movie in the first place.
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** All the people gathered around the porno theater at the end really thought there was a wild animal inside the theater. Landis didn't tell any of them that it was fake to get the right reaction out of everyone, so when it bursts out of the theater some of the screams were genuine.
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* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The film presents Yorkshire and London as being fairly close together, in spite of being on opposite ends of England.
* TheCameo: Mr. Collins, the American ambassador sounds exactly like [[Series/SesameStreet Bert, the Muppet]]. That is because he ''is'' Creator/FrankOz, the then-puppeteer of Bert, [[Franchise/TheMuppets Miss Piggy]] (who also appears in the film) and [[Franchise/StarWars Yoda]]; and later director of ''Film/LittleShopOfHorrors'' and the remake of ''Literature/TheStepfordWives''.
* TheCameo: Mr. Collins, the American ambassador sounds exactly like [[Series/SesameStreet Bert, the Muppet]]. That is because he ''is'' Creator/FrankOz, the then-puppeteer of Bert, [[Franchise/TheMuppets Miss Piggy]] (who also appears in the film) and [[Franchise/StarWars Yoda]]; and later director of ''Film/LittleShopOfHorrors'' and the remake of ''Literature/TheStepfordWives''.
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** In it's earliest incarnation, Landis had wanted Creator/DonaldSutherland for his lead. Landis had worked with Sutherland on the set of ''Film/Kelly'sHeroes'', ''Film/KellysHeroes'', which is where he got the idea for a werewolf movie in the first place.
