An American Werewolf in London - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[victoria]

The final look of the werewolf was based on make-up creator Rick Baker's Keish hound or keeshond, "which was this hairier dog and kind of almost wolf-like. A lot of times I'd look in the mirror and I'd make faces and kind of like be working on sculptures and it looks like me and my dog was there so I was like okay. He's kind of like a wolf, you know, he's got four legs, he had this big mane of hair which the wolf kind of had. So yeah, [the Werewolf] was very much based on my dog Bosco."

[caroline]

David Naughton took his parents to a screening of the movie when it first came out, and he was preparing them for it for what they were about to see, and they were in shock when they saw the whole movie, when the press asked them what they thought of the film they didn't say a word as they were still in complete shock.