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

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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.

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!

James Fox

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

Fellwanderer

Being as we've now got the Halloween background, that reminds me what I'll be watching tomorrow.

Got to be AAWIL with the NHS's most gorgeous nurse:

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christoph404

There was no actual filming in Yorkshire or Dartmoor, the Yorkshire Moors were the film's supposed settings but "the Moors" filming was in the "Black Mountains" region of Wales. The exterior of the pub was a mocked up residential cottage in the village of Crickadarn ("East Proctor" in the film) off the A479. The interior of the pub is in Surrey, its "The Black Swan" near Effingham Junction(between Guildford and Leatherhead) The London Underground filming was actually at Tottenaham Court Road Tube, normally underground filming for movies is done at the closed Aldwych station on the Strand with signs changed accordingly by the prop dept, in this instance Tottenham Court Road was used in the small hours .

LukeAFB

Steve missed out the 'Sorcerers' (not sure of the title in the UK) from his list. Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre.

I've just checked on Google and possibly this is not the title at all.

It was the story of three lunatic scientists, which if my memory serves, was quite hilarious, especially the scene towards the beginning with the telescope!

Steve Crook

But is it meant to be funny? Or is it a "so bad it's funny" type of film?

The Sorcerers (1967) with Boris Karloff - but it doesn't look to have too many intentional laughs in it

Steve

ollie

loved brian glovers character in awil , from him holding court in the pub telling the mexican joke to the serious warning in his distinctive accent keep to the path, beware the mooooon

"Bullseye !!"

LukeAFB

Steve,

Hence the reason I wasn't sure about the title. However, the film was a send up of Karloff's, Lorre's (and one other well known horror actor) own films. I'm sure it was made in the UK.

dadsarmy

Great film,i got the audio book torrent of demonoid and its great,tells the story before the 2 yank backpackers arrive,and the voices are all the original cast.