One of the best science-fiction comedies from the 1980s refuses to lose any of its shine. Two great performances and a wonderful story make this one of Joe Dante’s finest films.

Midnight Double Feature #2 – John Landis’ “An American Werewolf In London” and Joe Dante’s “The Howling”
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“I vote we go back to the Slaughtered Lamb.”
MDF #2 is werewolf night! And what better werewolf movies to enjoy than the Granddaddies of the genre. John Landis gives us horror and humour with cutting edge make-up effects, a classic rock soundtrack making use of as many songs as possible featuring the word ‘moon’, while Joe Dante satirises the media with his wry homage to …

JOE DANTE’S TOP 10 FILMS
1. Citizen Kane (Welles)
2. City Lights (Chaplin)
3. 8 1/2 (Fellini)
4. Les Enfants du paradis (Carné)
5. The Dead (Brakhage)
6. Rashomon (Kurosawa)
7. Psycho (Hitchcock)
8. Raging Bull (Scorsese)
9. The Searchers (Ford)
10. Once upon a Time in the West (Leone)