Linzi Drew in An American Werewolf in London (1981)

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The British tend to view tourists from the breakaway States as somewhat uncouth johnny-come-lately fellows who could do with a tad of sophisticating. Imagine then the reactions of appalled English men and ladies of manners when visited by the utterly beastly An American Werewolf in London (1981). This John Landis-directed pastiche of comedy, drama, and gore-splattered suspense provided early 1980s America with a howling-good Top 40 hit with its eponymous theme song and won an Academy Award for the onscreen transformation of a likable-enough chap from the frontier into a bloody, horrid, flesh-craving monstrosity.