Waller, Anthony

An American Werewolf in Paris

On the strength of his Hitchcockian-thriller debut, Mute Witness, writer-director Anthony Waller was hired to direct this belated sequel to the 1981 horror comedy An American Werewolf in London, but lycanthropy in the City of Light just ain't what it used to be. The movie offers plenty of gruesome makeup and special wolf-transformation effects, and there are some effectively spooky moments in the plot involving an underground population of hungry Parisian werewolves. One of them is seductively played by Julie Delpy, who is rescued from attempted suicide by an American tourist (Tom Everett Scott, from That Thing You Do!) but ultimately can't hide her dual identity when darkness falls and the full moon shines. The movie begins well, but gradually succumbs to nonsense and mayhem, prompting critic Roger Ebert to observe that "here are people we don't care about, doing things they don't understand, in a movie without any rules." In other words, you'd have to be a die-hard horror buff to give this one the benefit of the doubt. --Jeff Shannon

Wild thriller about three college grads on a daredevil tour of europe. In paris one of them meets the woman of his dreams only to learn that when the moon is full she turns into the stuff of which nightmares are made. Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 08/05/2003 Starring: Tom Everett Scott Julie Delpy Run time: 145 minutes Rating: R Director: Anthony Waller

Mute Witness

Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 06/28/2005 Run time: 97 minutes Rating: R

The Guilty

Mute Witness [Region 2]