Fellwanderer

There is also the BBC Radio play, which starred Jenny and John Woodvine, and takes a slightly different storyline to the film.

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Bunnyboy

'The Cottage' seems to be the latest horror/comedy release. Not an outstanding film, but has its funny bits and some pretty grisly horror moments.

MB

I hadn't realised that John Landis wrote and directed this - he and John Hughes are two of my favourite 'Hollywood' directors/writers. I told somebody this once and they sniffed a bit..as though the 'lighthearted' nature of many of the movies they have made somehow devalued them as writers/directors. I think - not at all!

Amercan Werewolf (the original) had a great impact on me - it was the darkest 'comedy' I had ever seen. I remember noticing at the time (mid eighties on TV) how sharp the dialogue was and how the writing and direction cleverly and subtly played with cliches (unlike Sean of the Dead which hits you over the head with them...)

The scene in the cinema with the corpse talking has stayed with me...a very young Rik Mayall is sitting in the bar at the beginning...

I don't like 'horror' movies generally - but this was intriguing and amusing and payed off as pure entertainment.

EHV_Emmetts

When the "Werewolf" in question is finally revealed it looked more like a giant bear than a wolf.

TimR

True

I disliked this film intensely. The idea was a good one, but the violence was so ferocious and brutal that I felt as if I wanted to hide under my seat.

I haven't seen it in more than two decades, but I recall a "dream" scene ( I think it was a dream?) of a family being killed. It was absolutely arbitrary and irrelevant. It remains one of the most genuinely horrifying scenes I have ever seen.

I saw it with a friend who was infatuated with Jenny Agutter, and had been since Logan's Run. That was the reason we saw it.

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MovieLover12

A few years ago me and my father went out to Cornwall in the motor home and we got lost on the way back. Near Dartmoor, I thought we could go through here because thats where the pub is in the film. We went past the pub and I said, "There it is". Later at home I found that those scenes were actually filmed in on the Yorkshire Moors! Damm, but that pub looked identical!!

The bloke who runs through the tube and dies on the escalator, me and my father saw all that in London. We went down that escalator. Its near Embankment.

TimR

There are aspects of the production that are impressive. The sequences on the moors have considerable power, and the tube scene is very well done: as a man who has worked in an office and taken the subway in Boston and NYC many times in the years since I saw it, that scene remains very clear!

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James Fox

Love "American Werewolf." My favorite Landis film after "Animal House."