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Lost in the Moors: The Deleted Scenes of An American Werewolf in London

John Landis’s 1981 masterpiece, An American Werewolf in London, is widely considered one of the greatest horror-comedies ever made. It gave us Rick Baker’s Oscar-winning transformation effects, a haunting soundtrack, and the nightmare of the Slaughtered Lamb.

Status: Considered lost media. No known video or audio survives, and Landis has expressed regret over its removal. Because the footage is gone, viewers can only guess how the "ghostly" versions of the tramps in the cinema scene actually died. Shortened Transformation & Gore an american werewolf in london deleted scenes

• The Scene: A flashback to 1935. A group of villagers huddle in the pub. Outside, a full moon hangs over the moors. We see a young boy (the future pub landlord) watch in horror as his father transforms into a wolf. The men of the village, using silver-tipped walking sticks, hunt and kill the creature. The scene ends with the boy being sworn to secrecy.
• Why it was cut: Landis shot a version of this prologue during principal photography, but the footage was unusable due to a technical error—the lab ruined the film negative. Faced with budget and time constraints, Landis chose to abandon the sequence rather than reshoot it. The eerie atmosphere and unspoken dread in the final film are a direct result of this loss; the audience, like the American tourists, is kept in the dark.

5. The "Piccadilly Circus" Massacre (Unfilmed, Storyboarded)

The film’s climax was originally far more public and carnage-heavy. Lost in the Moors: The Deleted Scenes of