# The American Werewolf in London appreciation thread

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 25, 2002, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-werewolf-in-london-appreciation-thread/105546 "2002-04-25T15:29:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Capt.Spaulding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5a626/32.png) [@Capt.Spaulding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Spaulding)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-werewolf-in-london-appreciation-thread/105546/21 "2002-04-26T18:56:59Z")

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Dunne’s character: “Say ‘Knock, knock.’”

Jack: “Knock, knock.”

D.C.: “Who’s there?”

J.: “Wha…?”

D.C.: “You don’t get it? Here, try it again. Say ‘Knock, knock.’”

J.: “Knock, knock…wait…”

D.C.: “You _still_ don’t get it, do you?”

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D.C.: “Do you know how _boring_ it is being undead?!”

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My favorite memory of that flick was seeing it with my cousin who had worn a fake rabbit fur coat. During one of the tense set-ups to an attack scene I took her coat sleeve and brushed it against the back of her neck.

She went 30 feet straight up in the air in that theater.

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**Author:** ![Capt.Spaulding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5a626/32.png) [@Capt.Spaulding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Spaulding)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-werewolf-in-london-appreciation-thread/105546/22 "2002-04-26T19:05:09Z")

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Oops! I got that backwards. I just realized Dunne’s character was named “Jack” and Naughton’s was named “David”.

And I called myself a “fan”.

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**Author:** ![everton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-werewolf-in-london-appreciation-thread/105546/23 "2002-04-26T20:39:30Z")

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> \*Originally posted by buckyogi \*  
> **everton** : _Walkabout_ is a film I first saw only because Agutter was in it, and it has given me more to think about than nearly any film I’ve seen. A refreshingly honest film about teenage sexuality. And she is hot in it, even if she was only 14 (or is she hot _because_ she is only 14?).

My parole officer has suggested that I point out that, although she’s playing _the part of_ a fourteen-year-old, Ms Agutter was in fact eighteen when she made the movie ;).

Back to OP, I enjoyed AWIL for the same reasons others have mentioned, plus the fact that I was at university in Yorkshire when it opened and the moors scenes were very like some late-night excursions I took with friends.

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