AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN PARIS (1997)

AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN PARIS (1997)

Tagline: Things are about to get a little hairy.

(Horror, Comedy, The City Of Love) [R]

I waited four years on a stairmaster to get a package like this. You ripped through it like a lamb chop!

I don’t think many people will argue with the notion that a lot of the best horror came from the 80s. In the 90’s we started getting soundtracks with 90’s bands in them and hip cars and apparently bungee jumping. 

In this one, a few thrill seekers go to Paris and one of them saves a young girl from committing suicide. Later we find out she and her dead mom live there, and she is a freakin werewolf. Apparently, there was supposed to be some connection between the first one AMERICAN WEREWOLF INLONDON, and this one with the Serafine (played by Julie Delpy) character being the daughter of the nurse in the first one…but I didn’t see that connection anywhere. 

Oh and back to the “dead mom is alive” section of this review. Yeah- there are a lot of dead people that continue to live and haunt the werewolf that killed them. This was a huge idea presented in the first film and it really works well again in this one. The effects in some areas were decent, but the chase scenes looked terrible and the werewolves in this for some damn reason looked NOTHING like the great one we had in the first installment. Julie Bowen (HUBIE HALLOWEEN) was also a welcome surprise as well as a pretty cool soundtrack. There is a subplot involving a drug that allows a werewolf to change at any time, but I really don't think this was needed. A few changes could have eliminated that aspect altogether. 

Overall we’ve got a lot of werewolves in this film and some are trying to take over the world essentially (one party at a time) but there was enough of the stuff we saw in the first film to make this fun. AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN PARIS also had its issues though. I will give this a 5 for following the original ideas close to the best, but the design work had just a ton to be desired. 

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