So, I have to wonder, does it ever occur that people in Hollywood set out, ??Producers, to intentionally make a really, really bad movie?
Because, honestly, I can't come up with any other reason that An American Werewolf in Paris would have been made. I scanned it–ah, the joys of TiVo because I have a lot of affection for An American Werewolf in London, an altogether better, if lower budget, movie that, like Logan's Run, has the added bonus of having Jenny Agutter (who, I find, has not actually been in a movie I've seen since 1987) nekkid.
This brings up, an interesting, if trivial, question for which Google has not been able to produce an answer: in the movie, Julie Delpy character's name is Serafine (sometimes spelled Seraphine). In Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, one of the characters, who is, incidentally, a werewolf, also has the name Seraphine, although she goes by Angua. So, is the name some sort reference that Google can't find, or is Terry Pratchett inexplicably a fan of the movie (since I believe the appearance of that name only dates back to 1999, a couple of years later)?
(Incidentally, there is a very weird site I stumbled upon in my search, Otaku World. Actually, it's not so much the site that is weird as the fact that they have "a whole section of "paper dolls. One of which is supposedly an illustration of Angua, although it looks nothing like any illustration I've seen before.)
And, finally, one of those weird bits of interconnectedness.
When I was four or five–while my mom and my infant brother and I were living in Birmingham with various relatives while my dad was stuck in Korea for a year (and I don't know how the fuck one maintains a relationship at that distance for that long; three months and a couple hundred miles is tough, I can't imagine that)–I insisted that I wanted to stay up and watch the movie Trilogy of Terror, and that I wouldn't be scared, etc.
(I suspect many people haven't seen the original, but The Simpson's Halloween episode where the Krusty doll comes to life and tries to kill Homer is based on it.)
Anyway, predictably, I was scared shitless. I had nightmares from that movie for years (comments on the IMDB message board suggest others did, too).
The author? ??William F. Nolan, co-author of the afore-mentioned Logan's Run.