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A naked American man stole my Behind the Scenes Pic of the Day!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s Behind the Scenes pic!
As I sit here typing this my back is to three framed one-sheets. One of them is the Gone With the Wind style Empire Strikes Back poster, another is Brad Bird’s Iron Giant and the third is An American Werewolf In London.
Can you imagine a movie like An American Werewolf In London being made today? I know Shaun of the Dead drew some comparisons, but there’s something John Landis was able to pull off with AWIL that is unique. The horror is genuinely scary, the comedy is genuinely funny and there’s a sense of playful danger throughout the whole thing.
The nightmare within a nightmare, for instance. Nazi monsters, muppets, murdered children and then you think you’re all fine and safe because David woke up. Nope. Left hook.
Besides being one of my favorite movies, An American Werewolf In London is a showcase for Rick Baker just as John Carpenter’s The Thing is a showcase for Rob Bottin.
Bottin had a bit more freedom just based on the story he was bringing to life, but Baker’s werewolf set the standard in my eyes and his gore make-up on Griffin Dunne is a thing of legend.
And as such, here’s a series of photos of Baker applying the famous Jack make-up, complete with little hangy bit of flesh at the torn out neck! Dunne doesn’t appear to be having the best time, yeah? Heh, looks great! Enjoy!
If you have a pic you think should be included email me. I’m looking for the iconic, the rare or the just plain cool behind the scenes shots to feature here.
Tomorrow’s Behind the Scenes Pic has been bbbbaaaaaddddddddddddd!
-Quint
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Previous Behind the Scenes pics:
- Alien
- Big Trouble In Little China
- Clash of the Titans
- Dr. Strangelove
- Sesame Street
- The Birds
- The Dark Knight
- Batman (1989)
- Batman: The TV Series
- Stephen King’s IT
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- Superman
- The French Connection
- Tron
- The Road Warrior
- Ghostbusters
- King Kong (’33)
- The Empire Strikes Back (Luke with Slate)
- Rebel Without A Cause
- Taxi Driver
- Metropolis
- The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
- Tommy Chong Meets The Blues Brothers
- The Empire Strikes Back (Filming the Crawl)
- John Carpenter’s The Thing
- Jaws
- Die Hard
- Aliens
- Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man
- The Howling
- Revenge of the Creature
- The Empire Strikes Back (Vader & Luke Duel)
- The Godfather
- Rambo III
- Vertigo
- Planet of the Apes
- Pan’s Labyrinth
- Labyrinth
- RoboCop
- The Adventures of Robin Hood
- Marathon Man
- Young Frankenstein
- Viva Las Vegas
- The Empire Strikes Back (Han driving a snow cat)
- Rio Bravo
- Giant
- Back to the Future
- The Time Machine
- War of the Worlds (1953)
- Alien (Chestburster)
- On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
- Dr. No
- The Twilight Zone
- Once Upon A Time In The West
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Star Trek: The Original Series
- The Empire Strikes Back (Luke in Wampa Cave)
- Edward Scissorhands
- The Warriors
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Fantastic Mr. Fox
- Requiem for a Dream
- The Princess Bride
- Hard Boiled
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
- They Live
- The Empire Strikes Back (Tippet with Wampa)
- Dirty Harry
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
- Blade Runner
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (Periscope Ride)
- 1941
- The Godfather (Coppola & Brando)
- The Lady Eve
- 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
- Godzilla
- The Empire Strikes Back (Bald Vader)
- Mary Poppins
- Alien 3
- Total Recall
- The Pink Panther
- Fawlty Towers
- The Trouble With Harry
- Beetlejuice
- The Shining
- Thriller
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I really do.
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The GREATEST werewolf film!
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...steal an American man!
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but that's a long time ago and some serious flops Landis needs to be on top of his game again.
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And now I walk the earth in limbo...
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It's in God's hands now
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Yeah, rational, sure. I'm a fucking werewolf for chrissake!!
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FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!11
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What I remember most about the movie was being in grade school and a friend of mine who had just seen it was describing the movie to me, my 8 year old mind just couldn't comprehend what I was hearing. I eventually saw it a few years later on cable and it still blew my adolescent mind.
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That little flapping piece of skin in the neck always drove me nuts, just want to pull it off! As awesome as the transformation scene is, I think Bottin's from The Howling is just as good.
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Why the mate with the torn up face in these pics , keeps coming back in a more decayed state?i could understand if he appeared as a fresh killed ghost and stayed like it throughout the movie , but hes doing ,more of a zombie scenario.Was he meant to be the guys actual body? { in which case his wounds would be stitched post mortem} or some sort of apparition?
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I heard in one of the DVD extras that he had a rough time with that makeup because it was depressing to him seeing his own demise.
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It opens in the UK in about a month, but I've heard almost nothing about it.
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..Blue Moon..(the credits roll)..loved that ending! A lot of people complained that it was too jarring but it sure had them discussing afterwards..
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It's pretty damn hard for a film to be both funny and frightening at the same time. This incongruity between humor and scares is the chief reason why so many "horror comedies" fail. To this day, American Werewolf in London outshines them all.
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I must have bought this movie about 4 times(VHS, Laserdisc, DVD, now Blu-Ray.) God to think how much money I spent on now worthless laserdiscs.
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from cutting up the Life magazine spread for this movie (to hang up as pictures on my bedroom wall) to doing a H.S. term paper on Rick Bakers SPFX and best of all spilling my young seed at the Jenny Agutter nude scenes
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..remember the Alamo!..and chucks out the Mexicans!
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..bloody awful!
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Nothing comes close. The Howling was fantastic, but the ending kind of killed it when they get to the village of stupid looking "werewolves"...also, The Howling's terrible sequels hurt it's legacy a bit.
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I saw in the theater. My friends and I made our own super 8 film version. My mom it for me used on VHS at the then unheard of price of $45 which I still have. Much love for American Werewolf.
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Teen Wolf!
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this movie has (why am i talking like Yoda?)
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It was released on my 14th birthday.
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Alien 3 crew jackets said the same thing.
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Bitch, bitch, bitch. That's all I hear about it. No one cares! Knock this shit off.
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A lot of people forget, or never knew, how expensive movies were, to buy. In the early days of VHS, a brand new film could cost $80 to $100 dollars.
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IS FUCKING AWESOME!!!!
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were actually filmed in Wales.
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like seriously so disgusting, it's a wonder more women aren't Lesbians
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I was lucky enough on a visit to London a few years back to make it out to the Black Swan, where they filmed the interior Slaughtered Lamb scenes. My favorite viewing of the film was at the New Bev in L.A. where Edgar Wright interviewed John Landis. This movie broke genre film rules and by doing so practically created it's own.
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Best part of this film.
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and I want it back because I need to sit down. The scenes pics are great today. Enjoying them without my ass. Rick Baker was amazing.
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Good and the special effects in some sequences better than AAWIL but the story and pacing were NOT. Especially he ending like MelGibsonsRacialTirade says.
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I love this movie. I was about 7 when this came out, I think, and for some reason my parents took me to see it (they were either progressive or stupid) and I was clearly shitting pants through 80% of it. Fifteen years of therapy means I can l laugh now, of course. :)
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He was banned for no good reason. It was classless, cowardly and unnecessary. The bitching is more than justified and the person who did it (I refuse to name him) deserves all the bitching he's been getting. This just proves how far this site has fallen in recent years. Trolls are allowed to come on here and post for months and nothing happens, yet a loyal talkbacker who has been here from the start, and never once acted like a troll, has the nerve to disagree with some idiot's policy and gets banned. That's the truth. If you don't like it, bite me.
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The transformation was more exciting and interesting in the howling, as was the featured werewolf. The ending was a low perplexing thing though. I realize bakervcould be considered a force behind the howling as well, but time has told that bottin is the more creative in my perception.
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There were some great suspensful moments in The Howling where you expect something to jump out at you - sometimes it did, sometimes it didn't. Most movies back then always had stuff jump out at you. I think the opening scene was fantastic - even if the idea of it was kind of funny, heh.
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in LIFE if I remember correctly. I got scared by the photos even before I got to see the movie (I was still bit to young then). Great, great stuff. Now I have to watch the Howling again, it's been decades since I've seen it.
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1981. The year of the Werewolf.
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I randomly say that out loud, for no reason, in that british gay voice.end of line.
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This is one of the all time great horror/comedy films - the conversations with his slowly decaying friend are classic, and the Nazi demon sequence at the time was pretty freaky. "Innocent Blood" had a lot of the same qualities - I know a lot of people didn't like that film, but I thought it came off really well (Robert Loggia especially). As for Wolfen, I really like the movie, but the book was a lot better - and the random decision to have the wolves suddenly disappear at the end seemed out of place and a complete letdown.
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When is Landis gonna make *that* movie?!
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I know. I bought Aliens for $80 on VHS when it was released.
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The scene where Don Rickles as a vampire IRS in the hospital bed and burns away when the nurse opens the window... Hmmm.... Let the right one in?
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Not IRS
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I haven't missed the behind the scenes pic of the day before.
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Rick Mayall in The Slaughtered Lamb, sniggering. Landis is working with at least three of the cast of AMIL in 'Burke and Hare'. I have high hopes for it! Cast looks perfect. (He says in that British gay way).
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Paul Kember was rocking some serious Clouseau in his performance.
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For once something I can really appreciate. Classic film. A modern horror masterpiece. Of course it's 20 odd years old so I suppose the kids wouldn't consider it modern! I watched the second best werewolf film ever made last night (Howling is so meh).... DOG SOLDIERS. I'm watching a tonne of horror films this month leading up to Halloween. Started with Night of the Demon, then Nightmare on Elm Street. Last night was Dog Soldiers. "I hope I give you the shits!!!" It's no American Werewolf, but I can't think of another were film to touch it. After that it's got to be Curse of the Werewolf. Then.....that's it I guess. Haven't seen Legend of the Werewolf (with Peter Cushing) since I was a kid, so I don't know how that holds up. How about a Dog Soldiers pic next.......??? Think it's all over? It is now!
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did i miss something? who is D. Vader and why did they get banned?
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had to throw out a quote. its tradition. you know this to be true.
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Because it's funny. End of.
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For banning D.Vader
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Brilliant movie. David's acting's fucking rubbish though.
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One of my top 10 and definitely better than Howling. Should NOT be remade, as they are attempting. Oh, and I paid $100 for Godzilla: King of the Monsters on VHS back in the day.
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I thought it was fine. If you want to see bad acting in a Werewolf movie, watch Wolfman with Benicio Del Toro. Now THAT's bad.
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Oct. 4, 2010, 7:06 a.m. CST
Classic in all respects. Landis truly gets British humour too.
by Mr Nicholas
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I literally do not get sick of it...I must have watched the documentaries and extras on it as many times as i've seen Evil Dead 2, which is many. ED2 is the only other film, apart from maybe Braindead, to balance gross effects, horror and comedy so well.
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Zing!
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Jenny Agutter--so fine.
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if you ever bated to Jenny.
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porn actress had an amazing rack.<p>And that floppity bit of latex on Dunne always bugged me, but in a good, "that looks painful", kind of way.
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the movie?
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I'm still hanging on to my frayed and faded Slaughtered Lamb t-shirt from some pub in NYC because a) Gift from the wifey and b) This film. So much good stuff...that howl...porn theater...David trying to get arrested...the transformation...the demon dream sequence(that I think gave birth to the phrase What the fuck?!?), the music...Frank Oz as the American ambassador or whatever he was. And for the record, Abominable, I'm sure I've saluted my flag to Jenny Agutter but I'm positive the moaning nubile lady Brits in the porn movie were quite useful as well.
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Best werewolf movie ever.
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The porn actress is Linzi Drew. A soft-core brit model of the 70's/80's theres most likely a load of pics of her on the web in vintage sites etc the guy she was in the film with came on her leg...much to her horror!!
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"A naked American man stole my balloons." <P> "Wot?"
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Prince Charles is a faggot! Shakespeare's French!
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Its amazing how accurate Landis was in terms of satirising the British Tabloid Press. Right on the money..
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Director fail.
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Now he truly WAS British humour
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Ouch
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It's boring.
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