Jarv’s Birthday Series: An American Werewolf in London (1981)

Welcome back to The Birthday Series. After the unintentional horror of Xanadu, I gleefully unwrap my next present and am ecstatic to see John Landis’ seminal intentional horror American Werewolf in London pop out. As with Life of Brian, this is rightly regarded as a stone-cold classic and as such there are reams and reams of proper reviews by enlightened scribes out there, so I haven’t got a huge amount to add that hasn’t already been written. Nevertheless, I’ll give it my best.

Koutchboom’s Adventures In Terrible Comedy – Shrink

PULL OVER PULL OVER!!!! Quick…….NO I CAN’T MAKE IT TO THE NEXT REST STOP WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF FRIGGING NOWHERE NO ONE WILL CARE JUST PULL OVER I GOTTA PISS!

The Underrated: Fierce People

Fierce People is a strange film. For the life of me, I cannot understand Lionsgate’s decision to bury it. It sports a stellar cast, is based on a simply fabulous and successful book (the author, Dirk Wittenborn,  adapted it for the screen) and it is directed by Griffin Dunne who’s previous films include such unmitigated trash as Practical Magic. It’s now seeing the light of day on a very limited and unheralded DVD release, but that’s probably in an attempt to cash in on the increased fame of the teenage actors (although Twilight fans are in for a hell of a shock).