20 Films That Prove The 1990s Was The Worst Decade For Horror
9. An American Werewolf In Paris
Innocent Blood wasn't the only film to urinate on the legacy of An American Werewolf in London in the 1990s. Some bright spark decided it would be a good idea to give the 1981 classic a sequel - and this 1997 stinkfest was the result.
Director Anthony Waller (previously responsible for the actually-quite-good low budget suspense thriller Mute Witness) presents us with more American backpackers - these ones so much more 90s, as we meet them bungee-jumping off the Eiffel Tower. This leads to a chance encounter with Serafine (Julie Delpy, who we can only assume leaves this one off her CV today), who we're later told is the daughter of the original film's David and Alex, and who is part of a Parisian werewolf gang. While his friends are eaten, Andy (Tom Everett Scott) finds himself turning wolf, and at odds with the gang leader, named - what else - Claude (Pierro Rosso).
As the synopsis alone makes clear, this is lightyears removed from An American Werewolf in London, and if better executed it might have been a reasonable action-horror of the sort we've since seen in the Blade and Underworld movies. Unfortunately it's sloppily made, dim-witted, anxious to be hip, and over-reliant on badly dated CGI which didn't even look good at the time.