This was difficult to verify because of the extensive rebuilding but, after several others (including the always excellent ReelStreets), mentioned the filming site was nearby Clink Street, it was time to revisit. Contemporary sources claimed that the final confrontation was filmed on Winchester Walk, where a false wall was built across the road to give that dead end. This was an area of old warehouses criss-crossed by narrow cobbled lanes which has since been massively redeveloped. This was filmed in Southwark, south of the river, between Southwark and London Bridges. In fact, some of this sequence was filmed on a mock-up of the Circus at Twickenham Studios.īut you'd be hard pressed to find that old alleyway where the wolf is finally cornered anywhere near the West End.
You can see the cinema in its heyday in 1949 when the kids go to see the 'Siege of Burgundy' in classic Ealing comedy Passport To Pimlico.Īn American Werewolf in London film location: mayhem in central London: Piccadilly CircusĪnd once again John Landis demonstrates his talent for staging major set-pieces in impossible locations by setting the climactic mayhem smack in the middle of Piccadilly Circus itself – although, if you look carefully, you can see a wobbly street sign. The tiny cinema is long gone, and is now a branch of GAP clothes store on the corner of Shaftesbury Avenue in Piccadilly Circus, more recently featured in Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 1. Unable to get arrested by an unflappable British copper, David hides out in the Eros Cinema which stood on the north side of Piccadilly Circus, which happens to be showing – yes! – See You Next Wednesday.
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The cab driver is a young Alan Ford, now a regular heavy in London gangster movies (he was Brick Top in Guy Ritchie’s Snatch).
Needless to say, the Zoo has had a major makeover in the intervening years, though you can still see its famous Mappin Terraces, those reinforced concrete mountain structures, now rebranded as The Outback, home to emus and wallabies.Įn-route to see Dr Hirsch, David hears about the previous night’s carnage and leaps out of the cab in Trafalgar Square, the tourist heart of London. This place seems to have a strange fascination for London-based 80s cult movies – remember Richard E Grant performing Hamlet for the unimpressed wolves at the end of Withnail & I? Next morning, David wakes up naked, remembering nothing, in the Wolf House of London Zoo in Regent’s Park, NW1. Notice the first glimpse of the poster for John Landis’s trademark See You Next Wednesday movie? Unusually, the tube station, where the city gent gets chomped, is the busy Tottenham Court Road Station, though filmed in the wee small hours. Aldwych Station in the Strand is almost invariably rented out to film companies, since it’s permanently closed and at the end of a spur line, causing no disruption to services. You can see more of Tower Bridge of course in Spider-Man: Far From Home.ĭavid next turns up in a near-deserted underground station. The whole area, north and south of the river, has been seriously redeveloped since 1981 so you’re unlikely to stumble across a pile of abandoned cars. Why not fit in a little sight-seeing while satisfying that craving for human flesh? From here, David ranges across the city to turn up on the north bank of the River Thames just east of Tower Bridge, where he comes across those three unfortunate old homeless guys. An American Werewolf in London film location: David Kessler goes through changes in the flat of nurse Alex Price: Coleherne Road, Earl's Court, London SW10
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