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Despite the overwhelming desire for a complete, uncut version of the film, the deleted scenes remain frustratingly difficult to access officially. The chart below summarizes the availability of deleted and lost material across various releases: an american werewolf in london deleted scenes
Beyond the deleted scenes, the film’s very conclusion was almost drastically different. In the original first draft of the script, the story did not end with the werewolf’s death in Piccadilly Circus. Instead, the film concluded with a surreal, ghoulish vaudeville-style musical revue in the afterlife. In this bizarre sequence, the film’s deceased characters would gather together and sing “Shine on Harvest Moon!” in a macabre celebration. While this ending was never filmed (and thus does not qualify as a deleted scene), it reveals just how much darker and more absurd Landis’ original vision for the film was. If you want to dive deeper into the
A specific shot of a London police officer being brutally mauled by the wolf amidst the crashing cars. Instead, the film concluded with a surreal, ghoulish
Rick Baker and his crew built several additional practical effects rigs that did not make the final film. These included: