An American Werewolf in Paris

MPAA Rating

Theatrical Release Date

Dec 24, 1997

Genre(s)

Suspense
Mystery
Netherlands
4-for-3 All DVDs
Frighteningly Funny

Rating (Stars)

Description

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

Director

NULL

Stars

Serge Basso
Ben Salem Bouabdallah
Julie Bowen
Phil Buckman
Isabelle Constantini

Running Time

98 minutes

Original Price

$9.99

Current Value

$3.56

DVD Features

Closed-captioned
Color
DVD-Video
Letterboxed
Widescreen
NTSC
1.85:1