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AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON

LET’S CLEAR THIS up first. Just because a film makes you laugh — even if it is outrageously funny throughout — even if it’s full of comedy — it is not necessarily A Comedy. Or even a horror comedy.

Half an hour into , after backpackers Jack (Griffin Dunne) and David (David Naughton) have first encountered the creature on the moors, after Jack has been viciously torn to death, and after David, himself mauled, has already suffered a series of vivid nightmares in hospital, he has the worst one of all, and the least abstract: on YouTube the scene is

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