#42 An American Werewolf in London

Before werewolves were turned into sexual metaphors for the YA generation they were terrifying monsters in John Landis’s gory groundbreaker, An American Werewolf in London. Along with The Howling, American Werewolf took the wolf man out of the misty swamps of the B&W classics and into the modern era thanks to Rick Baker’s Oscar-winning make-up work and a self-referential screenplay that’s both humorous and scary.