Name: An American Werewolf in London + The Thing - Pat’s Film Club’s Halloween of Horrors
Start: 2025-11-02T18:00:00+00:00
Location: Plaza Cinema Truro

$An American Werewolf in London + The Thing - Pat\u2019s Film Club\u2019s Halloween of Horrors$

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 2ND FROM 6PM
AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON + THE THING
Transformation Terror: Two Masterpieces of Physical Horror
By overwhelming demand, we’re bringing back two of horror cinema’s greatest achievements in practical effects and body horror. You voted for them, you demanded them, and now they’re back—because some films are so extraordinary, they deserve to be experienced again and again on the big screen.
AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON (6pm)
John Landis achieved something remarkable with this 1981 masterpiece—he created a horror-comedy that’s genuinely hilarious and absolutely terrifying, often within the same scene. David Naughton’s doomed American tourist faces the ultimate transformation, aided by Rick Baker’s Oscar-winning makeup effects that remain unsurpassed four decades later.
The werewolf transformation sequence is legendary for good reason—it’s a masterclass in practical effects that makes CGI look like child’s play. But what makes the film endure is Landis’s perfect balance of humor and horror, creating a film that can make you laugh at a zombie’s advice one moment and genuinely disturb you the next. Griffin Dunne’s decomposing best friend Jack provides both comic relief and existential dread, while London itself becomes a character—foggy, ancient, and hiding monsters in plain sight.
THE THING (8.15pm)
John Carpenter’s 1982 paranoia masterpiece remains the gold standard for isolation horror. In the Antarctic wasteland, Kurt Russell and his team face an alien entity that can perfectly imitate any living thing—meaning anyone could be the enemy, and trust becomes the most dangerous luxury of all.
Rob Bottin’s creature effects are the stuff of nightmares—grotesque, imaginative, and utterly convincing transformations that showcase the artistry of practical horror. But THE THING works because it’s as much about human psychology as alien biology. Carpenter traps us in that research station with characters who can’t trust each other, can’t escape, and can’t be sure who’s still human. The result is a masterpiece of sustained tension that builds to one of cinema’s most ambiguous and haunting endings.
Both films prove that the best horror comes from transformation—whether it’s a man becoming a monster or the slow dissolution of trust and humanity itself. Join us for a double dose of practical effects mastery and psychological terror that reminds us why these films topped your survey.
Book now for an evening of transformation terror that showcases horror at its most visceral and unforgettable..