When was american werewolf in london filmed

The Edwardian red-brick mansion block, where the posh couple unwisely decide to give their friends a surprise by sneaking around to the rear of the property, is The Pryors, East Heath Road, Hampstead, NW3. Why not fit in a little sight-seeing while satisfying that craving for human flesh? From here, David ranges across the city to turn up on the north bank of the River Thames just east of Tower Bridge , where he comes across those three unfortunate old homeless guys.

David next turns up in a near-deserted underground station. Unusually, the tube station, where the city gent gets chomped, is the busy Tottenham Court Road Station , though filmed in the wee small hours.

Needless to say, the Zoo has had a major makeover in the intervening years, though you can still see its famous Mappin Terraces , those reinforced concrete mountain structures, now rebranded as The Outback , home to emus and wallabies. Unable to get arrested by an unflappable British copper, David hides out in the Eros Cinema which stood on the north side of Piccadilly Circus , which happens to be showing — yes!

You can see the cinema in its heyday in when the kids go to see the 'Siege of Burgundy' in classic Ealing comedy Passport To Pimlico. And once again John Landis demonstrates his talent for staging major set-pieces in impossible locations by setting the climactic mayhem smack in the middle of Piccadilly Circus itself — although, if you look carefully, you can see a wobbly street sign. In fact, some of this sequence was filmed on a mock-up of the Circus at Twickenham Studios. John Woodvine Dr.

Hirsch as Dr. Frank Oz Mr. Collins as Mr. Collins …. Colin Fernandes Benjamin as Benjamin. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Two American college students are on a walking tour of Britain and are attacked by a werewolf. One is killed, the other is mauled. The werewolf is killed but reverts to its human form, and the local townspeople are unwilling to acknowledge its existence.

The surviving student begins to have nightmares of hunting on four feet at first but then finds that his friend and other recent victims appear to him, demanding that he commit suicide to release them from their curse, being trapped between worlds because of their unnatural deaths. John Landis - the director of Animal House brings you a different kind of animal. Did you know Edit. That category was created in Goofs When the werewolf is seen approaching the escalator in the Tottenham Court Road underground station, a foot of one of the crew pushing the werewolf along is clearly visible at the end of the shot.

Quotes David : I want you to arrest me, you asshole! Alternate versions Universal Studios re-mixed the film's monaural soundtrack to Dolby Digital 5. Extra thunderclap sound effects were added in the scene when David and Jack are walking in the moors and it starts to rain. The first werewolf can now be heard growling in the rear channels as it circles David and Jack. The opening shots of the moors are near Hay, a mountain that straddles the Welsh border in Brecon Beacons National Park.

The scenes were shot on the Welsh side of Hay Bluff, about four miles to the south of the town of Hay-on-Wye in the county of Powys. The scene where David and Jack get dropped off by the sheep farmer is by the stone circle, the same location where, later in the film, Dr.

Hirsch stops and looks at the sign for East Proctor. The same road provides the scenery for the next two shots, where David and Jack talk about Debbie Klein. East Proctor was filmed at a small hamlet ten miles to the west of Hay Bluff called Crickadarn.

Films tended to show the transformation from man to wolf through dissolves, but I wanted to capture how painful the entire process would be — and make it painful to watch. Although the film did have a lot of comedy, I wanted to treat the violence realistically, to make it as terrible as violence always is. Elmer Bernstein wrote the score.

Although the leads were American, it was a British movie: the entire crew and most of the cast were British. The climactic scene, set around Piccadilly Circus, is like a time capsule of London in John Landis kept things very light on set, but the shoot was gruelling.