In 1978, the year of Eraserhead and The Deer Hunter, we were also laughing, thank goodness. Debut director John Landis’s outrageous teen comedy National Lampoon’s Animal House is extremely bold and hysterically funny. A landmark movie, it changed the landscape of screen humour and spawned whole generations of gross-out and farcical movies, from Porky’s to Ghostbusters,… Continue reading Animal House [National Lampoon’s Animal House] ***** (1978, John Belushi, Karen Allen, Tom Hulce, John Vernon, Tim Matheson, Stephen Furst, Verna Bloom) – Classic Movie Review 50