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Marco Castellini
•Two young men are on vacation in England; one night, while crossing an isolated moorland in a rural area, they are attacked by a werewolf that tears one of the two poor boys to shreds and injures the other. The survivor is taken to a London hospital and, once discharged, is hosted at the nurse's home who had taken care of him during his hospitalization. But whoever is bitten by a werewolf contracts the same "disease", and thus the boy, on full moon nights, transforms into a terrible and gigantic wolf sowing panic and death through the streets of London…
Directed by John Landis ("Animal House", "Blues Brothers"), a cult film of the eighties that made history above all thanks to the incredible special effects and makeup by Oscar winner Rick Baker, and which remain exceptional even for the modern viewer (the sequence of the protagonist David Naughton's transformation into a wolf still leaves one astounded). A plot halfway between the grotesque and pure horror, which skillfully mixes moments of real suspense with "parentheses" of pure fun. Certainly one of the best werewolf films of all time and a must for all horror movie lovers.
Trivia: Landis wanted to give himself a small appearance in the film mainly to pay homage to his past career as a stuntman: the director appears in one of the final sequences impersonating one of the pedestrians hit in Piccadilly Circus.
