An american werewolf in london 21st anniversary special edition

Extra thunderclap sound effects were added in the scene when David and Jack are walking in the moors and it starts to rain. The first werewolf can now be heard growling in the rear channels as it circles David and Jack. A louder growl has been added to the rear-left channel after Jack says "It's circling us" to make the audience jump.

All the gunshots and car crash sound effects have been replaced. The train in the "London tube" scene can now be heard moving from one channel to another Despite already being bad enough, the entire mix is inexplicably pitched down a half-pitch and sounds very different from the original mix. Due to a mastering error, the second Region 2 DVD the 2-Disc Special Edition has been edited to remove the scene where David calls home and speaks to his sister just before he attempts to cut his wrists with a pen knife All earlier releases of the film including the initial 2-disc 21st Anniversary Edition are uncut.

Universal Studios issued a statement saying that they will remove all affected stock and issue replacement discs. Such as the fact that water is wet, or that grass is green. Or the fact that An American Werewolf in London is a fantastic film.

It's been a few years since I last saw it, and I had forgotten just how brilliant it is. Horror comedies, of which this is a groundbreaking example, are far more commonplace nowadays than they were back in , and by today's standards the emphasis seems to be very much on the horror element rather than the comedy.

A vast proportion of the plot is spent building up the tension, from the spooky scenes on the dark moors of East Proctor to the dire warnings about what David David Naughton will become. These warnings come in the form of disturbing nightmares and verbal cautions from David's undead pal, Jack Griffin Dunne. Blu-ray No Time To Die. Blu-ray Spectre. Blu-ray Planetes - Collector's Edition.

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Picture The film has been reproduced in an enhanced 1. Although print damage may be kept to a minimum - with only a couple of frame judders and the odd speckle and fleck to mar it - the overall image is, unfortunately, often mushed-up-to-the-gills with grain. The opening titles, with their views over the moors Wales in reality and not Yorkshire are an appalling mess - blurry and completely lacking in definition.

Things brighten up with the arrival of Jack and David and a truckload of sheep, but the picture never loses its thick layer of grain, nor gains much in the way of clarity. Black, so vital for a horror film of this nature, are not too grand, either. And, whilst colours are fairly decent -particularly the rich flowing blood - skin-tones lack a healthy sheen, and I don't just mean the decomposing flesh of poor Jack. Compression errors don't appear to blight the transfer, though. But, even if they did, it would be hard enough to see them amid the squalor and murk of the picture, itself.

Backgrounds are never very distinct. Check out the view across the Thames when the wolf stalks the tramp trio - even the red neon is jumbled up.

Close-ups, however, are much better presented, with the transformation's popping flesh looking very interesting, indeed. All this sounds pretty terrible, I know. And it certainly is if you are watching on a big screen.

On a 32 inch, things fared far better, I have to say. And, to be honest, you would be hard-pushed to find a better version. The R2 release is similarly treated. Sound Well, things do improve considerably with the re-vamped audio. American Werewolf has both DD 5.