John Landis’s Typical Vibe
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John Landis has 19 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2010s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Michael Jackson's Thriller.
Recurring themes

Ruthless People
1986
Comedy

Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ
1982
Comedy

Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
1982
Comedy

Yuppies
1986
Comedy

Dragnet
1987
Action · Comedy

I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
1988
Comedy · Action

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
1988
Comedy · Crime

Johnny Dangerously
1984
Comedy · Crime

An American Werewolf in London
1981 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 6%Shudder · Included

Clue
1985 · Movie · Writer
Top 11%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

Coming to America
1988 · Movie · Director
Top 20%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Animal House
1978 · Movie · Director
Top 20%Netflix · Included

Twilight Zone: The Movie
1983 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 20%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Oscar
1991 · Movie · Director
Top 52%Prime Video · Included
A night at the movies turns terrifying when Michael and his date are attacked by zombies. Released at the height of Thriller’s success, the short film redefined the music video, broke racial barriers, and became the first inducted into the U.S. National Film Registry.
Dir. John Landis · With Michael Jackson, Ola Ray, Vincent Price

American tourists David and Jack are savagely attacked by an unidentified animal while hiking on the Yorkshire Moors. After retiring to the home of a beautiful nurse to recuperate, David soon begins experiencing disturbing changes to his body and mind.
Dir. John Landis · With David Naughton, Griffin Dunne, Jenny Agutter

Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised.
Dir. John Landis · With John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, James Brown
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
Dir. John Landis · With Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Ralph Bellamy

Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy -- who turns up dead after his secret is exposed: He was blackmailing all of them. With the killer among them, the guests and Boddy's chatty butler must suss out the culprit before the body count rises.
Dir. Jonathan Lynn · With Tim Curry, Eileen Brennan, Madeline Kahn

An African prince decides it’s time for him to find a princess... and his mission leads him and his most loyal friend to Queens, New York. In disguise as an impoverished immigrant, the pampered prince quickly finds himself a new job, new friends, new digs, new enemies and lots of trouble.
Dir. John Landis · With Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, Shari Headley

At a 1962 College, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.
Dir. John Landis · With John Belushi, Karen Allen, Tom Hulce

An anthology film presenting remakes of three episodes from the "Twilight Zone" TV series—"Kick the Can", "It's a Good Life" and "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"—and one original story, "Time Out."
Dir. John Landis, Joe Dante, Steven Spielberg, George Miller · With Dan Aykroyd, Albert Brooks, Scatman Crothers

Ed Okin used to have a boring life. He used to have trouble getting to sleep. Then one night, he met Diana. Now, Ed's having trouble staying alive.
Dir. John Landis · With Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dan Aykroyd

Angelo "Snaps" Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman. Despite having no experience in making money in a legal fashion, Snaps sets about to keep his promise.
Dir. John Landis · With Sylvester Stallone, Marisa Tomei, Vincent Spano

A trio of unemployed silent film actors are mistaken for real heroes by a small Mexican village in search of someone to stop a malevolent bandit.
Dir. John Landis · With Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, Martin Short

as TV Technician Thrown by Gorilla (segment "A.M. Today") · Director
Prime Video · Included+4
A series of loosely connected skits that spoof news programs, commercials, porno films, kung-fu films, disaster films, blaxploitation films, spy films, mafia films, and the fear that somebody is watching you on the other side of the TV.
Dir. John Landis · With Evan C. Kim, Bong Soo Han, Agneta Eckemyr

Marie is a vampire with a thirst for bad guys. When she fails to properly dispose of one of her victims, a violent mob boss, she bites off more than she can chew and faces a new, immortal danger.
Dir. John Landis · With Anne Parillaud, David Proval, Rocco Sisto

Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for nuclear war.
Dir. John Landis · With Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Steve Forrest
When he hears talk radio host Fran Ambrose discussing the topic of matricide, Norman calls in under a false name to tell his story.
Dir. Mick Garris · With Anthony Perkins, Henry Thomas, Olivia Hussey

Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist.
Dir. John Landis · With Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis, Isla Fisher

Centered on a television station which features a 1950s-style sci-fi movie interspersed with a series of wild commercials, wacky shorts and weird specials, this lampoon of contemporary life and pop culture skewers some of the silliest spectacles ever created in the name of entertainment.
Dir. Peter Horton, Carl Gottlieb, John Landis, Robert K. Weiss, Joe Dante · With Arsenio Hall, Donald F. Muhich, Monique Gabrielle

When his boss is killed, Detroit cop Axel Foley finds evidence that the murderer had ties to a California amusement park called Wonder World. Returning to sunny Beverly Hills once more, Foley reunites with Detective Billy Rosewood to solve the case. Along with Billy's new partner, Detective Jon Flint, they discover that Wonder World is being used as a front for a massive counterfeiting ring.
Dir. John Landis · With Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, Héctor Elizondo
Finally released from prison, Elwood Blues is once again enlisted by Sister Mary Stigmata in her latest crusade to raise funds for a children's hospital. Hitting the road to re-unite the band and win the big prize at the New Orleans Battle of the Bands, Elwood is pursued cross-country by the cops.
Dir. John Landis · With Dan Aykroyd, John Goodman, Joe Morton
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