History YMMV / AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon

** The locals at the pub are likewise complicit, as there's no particular reason why they ''had'' to boot the two young tourists out into the rain. If they'd only used the same "traditional" HandWave to explain the pentagram and let the pair drink their tea in peace, nobody - not even the ''original'' werewolf - would have had to die.

* ValuesDissonance: Jack's remarks about how Debbie Klein, a young woman back home, has "no choice" but to have sex with him conveys ''far'' more of a StalkerWithACrush vibe today, when sexual harassment is much less tolerated, than it did when the film was made.

*** They're also early examples of the stupidity of the UglyAmerican in action. It never occurs to either of them that the locals are anything more than superstitious hicks.

** That was more a case of them not realizing that they had left the road then them simply neglecting the warnings.

* {{Narm}}: For some, the ironically upbeat songs picked for the soundtrack kinda ruin the moments they accompany. A YouTube commenter once remarked on a clip of the transformation scene they nearly left the page because they thought the clip, featuring David's horrific transformation accompanied by jazzy, romantic crooning, was a parody.

* TheEndOrIsIt: Despite David [[spoiler: being killed in the end]], there is still the very distinct possibility that he wound up impregnating Alex during their night of passion together, and if that is the case, it will mean that the child will be born with David's lycanthropic blood in their veins and will eventually become a werewolf themselves, which makes the DownerEnding infinitely more sad to think about, as it makes David's [[spoiler: death]] all for naught, as the werewolf bloodline continues to live on in his unborn son/daughter, which would leave Jack and all the people he killed still trapped in limbo, and leaves Alex in the terrible, unenviable position of having to deal with their lycanthropic child on her own.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Some believe David (in his werewolf form) [[spoiler: pulled a SuicideByCop at the end after [[LoveRedeems Alex]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone reaches out to him.]]]]

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Some believe David (in his werewolf form) [[spoiler: pulled a SuicideByCop at the end after [[LoveRedeems Alex]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone reaches out to him.]]]]

* {{Tearjerker}}:
** [[spoiler: Jack]] is killed by the werewolf, and David doesn't find out until he wakes up in the hospital. [[spoiler: When Jack visits David as a corpse]], he mentions that there were a lot of people at his funeral, far more than he was ever expecting, and also that a girl who was in love with him had SexForSolace with some jerk. It's only touched on briefly but [[spoiler: Jack's family]] and community lost him.
** At the end of his visit, [[spoiler: Jack tells David that there really is such a thing as the supernatural and evil forces, and begs David to kill himself before more suffer his fate. David begins crying and Jack begins to falter, and begs him not to cry too.]]
** During his second visit, [[spoiler: Jack glances over at Alex's bedroom where she is sleeping. It's then that it hits you that he will never get to have sex, which his friend just enjoyed.]]
** When the transformation scene comes, [[spoiler: David]] is writhing in agony as his body forcibly converts into the werewolf. Right before it really starts, [[spoiler: David apologizes to an absent Jack]] in tears and insists he didn't mean to call him a walking meat loaf, but [[spoiler: Jack]] wouldn't be able to help him even if he was there.
** During the nightmare scene, David dreams his family is slaughtered by Nazi zombies. It's pretty horrific on its own, but considering that David is Jewish and was probably born only a generation or two after the Holocaust, the zombies being Nazis makes the whole scene even sadder. The concept of watching your family's peaceful afternoon get destroyed and them getting brutally massacred is heartwrenching, too, especially the kids who were just watching ''The Muppet Show''.
** Having realized he must go through with [[spoiler: Jack's warning, David]] calls his family. He gets an answer from his little sister, who begins bickering with him and informs him that their parents aren't around. [[spoiler: David]] grows visibly upset, and tells his sister that he loves her, and to tell the same to their parents since he realizes he will never get to say goodbye to his parents.
** The man in the subway confronts David posthumously at the theater and growls that thanks to David, his wife is now without a husband and his child is now fatherless.
** The ending. After wreaking havoc (partially unintentionally) in the square, David has been herded to a dark alleyway. Alex goes to him, and tells him that she loves him. After a moment, David visibly softens... But lunges anyway, and is shot and killed. Alex breaks down in tears, ending the film.

** The ending. After wreaking havoc (partially unintentionally) in the square, David has been herded to a dark alleyway. Alex goes to him, and tells her that she loves him. After a moment, David visibly softens... But lunges anyway, and is shot and killed, ending the film.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival's "Bad Moon Rising" makes a huge impression, somehow, despite the fact that not much really happens while it is playing. (The great transformation scene does '''not''' take place to this tune, but to Sam Cooke's version of "Blue Moon.") Also, Music/ElmerBernstein composed about eleven minutes of music for the film, which was so good that the technoband Meco based an entire album on it.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Some believe David [[spoiler: pulled a SuicideByCop at the end after [[LoveRedeems Alex]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone reaches out to him.]]]]

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Some believe David [[spoiler: pulled a SuicideByCop at the end after [[LoveRedeems Alex]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone reaches out to him]].]]
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Bad Moon Rising" makes a huge impression, somehow, despite the fact that not much really happens while it is playing. (The great transformation scene does '''not''' take place to this tune, but to Sam Cooke's version of "Blue Moon.") Also, Music/ElmerBernstein composed about eleven minutes of music for the film, which was so good that the technoband Meco based an entire album on it.

* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: Rick Baker, so much that he basically ''created'' the Academy Award for Visual Special Effects, ''and'' won said award the first year it was available!

* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: Rick Baker, so much that he basically ''created'' the Accademy Award for Visual Special Effects, ''and'' won said award the first year it was available!

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Bad Moon Rising" makes a huge impression, somehow, despite the fact that not much really happens while it is playing. (The great transformation scene does '''not''' take place to this tune, but to Sam Cooke's version of "Blue Moon.") Also, ElmerBernstein composed about eleven minutes of music for the film, which was so good that the technoband Meco based an entire album on it.

* FridgeBrilliance: Kermit and Miss Piggy watch a PunchAndJudy show. Miss Piggy thinks it's too violent, but Kermit defends violence in artistic expression. This exchange immediately followed by two incredibly violent scenes.
** Also a bit of a CelebrityParadox, in a way, as Kermit is defending the artistic merits of puppetry in the face of Ms. Piggy's criticism. As in, puppets arguing about puppetry.
* NightmareFuel: If the TransformationSequence doesn't get you, the "Undead" will, which are more like living zombies than ghosts; Jack first appears to David with most of his skin still torn off from the Werewolf attack, and he just keeps decaying from there until his last appearance is... gah.
** How about the actual nightmare sequences? Some screenshots should not be on rental video cases available to six-year-olds.

* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: Rick Baker.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: If the TransformationSequence doesn't get you, the "Undead" will, which are more like living zombies than ghosts; Jack first appears to David with most of his skin still torn off from the Werewolf attack, and he just keeps decaying from there until his last appearance is... gah.