Seriously, how did we miss this one on our last list? In the beginning of John Landis' horror-comedy, friends David and Jack are mauled by a werewolf, with the latter dying from his wounds.

Humour and horror are nicely blended by John Landis in the tongue-in-cheek tale of a couple of young American innocents on the Yorkshire Moors who encounter a species not natural to the region.

1313 Mockingbird Lane Late Night Frights: “An American Werewolf in London” (1981), 9 p.m., Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts St. See libertyhall.net for tickets. Sunday, March 30 Community Meal ...

“Our first challenge had a small jury consisting of SFX magazine editor, David Bradley, film director, John Landis (American Werewolf in London) and actor, Emily Booth,” the organisers say. “We had a ...

But they didn’t know anything about writing a screenplay, so he gave them a copy of his own An American Werewolf in London, which he would finally get to make into a movie in 1981. In the Saturday ...