American students David Kessler (David Naughton) and Jack Goodman (Griffin Dunne) are spending their holidays backpacking around England. Seeking shelter from a storm at unwelcoming Yorkshire inn 'The Slaughtered Lamb', the pair are soon spooked by the unwelcoming locals, who nonetheless warn them not to stray from the road. Sure enough, the duo become lost on the moors and are attacked by a savage animal. Jack is killed, but when David wakes in a London hospital weeks later he is told that his attacker was in fact a rampaging madman. Already shocked and confused, David is horrified to receive a visit from the rotting corpse of an undead Jack, who informs him that the creature which attacked them was in fact a werewolf. Unless David kills himself he will fall prey to the monster's curse at the next full moon, and transform into a savage killer...
Director: John Landis
Producer: Peter Guber
Producer: Jon Peters
Writer: John Landis
Music: Elmer Bernstein
Music: Creedence Clearwater Revival
Cinematographer: Robert Paynter
Special FX A/V: Rick Baker
Make Up: Rick Baker
Actor: David Naughton
Actor: Jenny Agutter
Actor: Griffin Dunne
Actor: John Woodvine
Actor: Brian Glover
Actor: Lila Kaye
Actor: Rik Mayall
Actor: David Schofield
Actor: Donald McKillop
Actor: Frank Oz