: John Landis describes the scene as extremely graphic and "quite bloody".
The climax of the film in Piccadilly Circus is already a chaotic mess of car crashes and flying glass. However, several beats of "gratuitous" gore were trimmed to avoid an X rating.
For four decades, John Landis’s An American Werewolf in London has stood as a monolithic titan of horror-comedy. Released in 1981, it won the first-ever Academy Award for Best Makeup (thanks to Rick Baker’s legendary transformation sequence) and terrified a generation with its bleak, nihilistic ending. Yet, for die-hard fans, the film has always been haunted by its own ghost: what was left on the cutting room floor.
John Landis’s 1981 masterpiece, An American Werewolf in London , is often cited as the perfect horror-comedy. It has the scares, the Rick Baker practical effects that changed the industry, and a lean, mean script that doesn’t waste a second.
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