An American Werewolf in Paris

Story

On the strength of his Hitchcockian-thriller debut, Mute Witness, writer-director Anthony Waller was hired to direct this belated sequel to the 1981 horror comedy An American Werewolf in London, but lycanthropy in the City of Light just ain't what it used to be. The movie offers plenty of gruesome makeup and special wolf-transformation effects, and there are some effectively spooky moments in the plot involving an underground population of hungry Parisian werewolves. One of them is seductively played by Julie Delpy, who is rescued from attempted suicide by an American tourist (Tom Everett Scott, from That Thing You Do!) but ultimately can't hide her dual identity when darkness falls and the full moon shines. The movie begins well, but gradually succumbs to nonsense and mayhem, prompting critic Roger Ebert to observe that "here are people we don't care about, doing things they don't understand, in a movie without any rules." In other words, you'd have to be a die-hard horror buff to give this one the benefit of the doubt. --Jeff Shannon

DVD Features

• Color
• Closed-captioned
• Widescreen

Movie Details

Cast:

Tom Everett Scott
Julie Delpy
Thierry Lhermitte
Vince Vieluf
Phil Buckman
Julie Bowen
Pierre Cosso

MPAA Rating: R
Running time: 105 min
DVD Aspect Ratios: Widescreen 1.85:1

International rating:

Europe: 15
Australia: M

DVD International release dates:
North America: Aug 5, 03
Europe: Oct 29, 01

VHS International release dates:
North America: Oct 5, 99
Europe: Sep 28, 98