Silver Bullet (1985)

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

I definitely didn't expect a masterpiece, but Silver Bullet can sure count on many good and suspenceful scenes, unfortunally weighted down by a few unhappy ones that didn't manage to do them justice. The make up too is rather fickle, but overall the movie doesn't disappoint, being also rather faithful to the beautiful Stephen Kings' short novel.

A pretty good werewolf flick, one of the best from the 80's, not as good as American Werewolf in London (I don't think many werewolf films are) and on par with The Howling. Perhaps a little too predictable, and its not incredibly original either but manages to deliver us some great werewolf action, I really loved these scenes, they were suspenseful and the gore was fantastic (some of the attacks were funny and I don't know whether it was intentional or not but they were fun to watch nonetheless).I liked the kids in the film they did good, and I also loved Gary Busey in this, he's always a delight to watch.Roger Ebert liked this better than London and the Howling, and I like this one but I don't know what Roger found in this movie that made him rate this higher than those films. Anyway, Silver Bullet its an awesome movie, check it out if you haven't.

I found this older movie on Amazon streaming movies. My interest was piqued because the screenplay was written by Steven King and based on his own book of a different name. It is interesting diversion but at 30+ years old the picture, sound, and effects don't hold up very well compared to more recent movies. It is no 'Shawshank Redemption.'Filmed in North Carolina at a number of different locations, it is set in 1976. In a small community where everyone seems familiar with each other. Panic begins when a railway worker is found dead, his head severed near tracks. Everyone assumes he drank too much and fell asleep on the tracks. But that was not it at all. We witness an animal-like creature that killed him.The main character is Corey Haim as wheelchair-bound Marty Coslaw, about 13 or 14. He has a motorized wheelchair, with controls like you'd find on a scooter, and he names it 'Silver Bullet.' At some point he realizes what is going on and when he gets trapped on a bridge, shooting fireworks, he rouses the monster.Other key characters are Gary Busey as Uncle Red, the brother of Marty's mother. He likes Marty and in fact surprises him with a 3- wheeled motorcycle that is road-worthy.Everett McGill is the local Christian pastor, Reverend Lowe. Maty's sister is played by Megan Follows as Jane Coslaw. She and Marty have a good sister-brother bond.Just a fluff of a movie, there are a few moments of terror.SPOILERS: While shooting fireworks Marty was surprised by the Werewolf. He managed to shoot off a small rocket that punctured the monster in the left eye. Next day in an encounter with the preacher he is wearing a fresh patch over his left eye. Of course it turns out he is the werewolf and now has to take care of Marty. At night he enters their home, fights with Uncle Red, and Marty manages to shoot the monster with a silver bullet he just had made for the occasion. As the monster dies we can see it gradually turning back into the preacher.

It was summer, and the drive-in beckoned. On the menu that night was SILVER BULLET, based on the Stephen King novella illustrated by Bernie Wrightson. Werewolves? Hell, yeah- we were there. While the werewolves themselves weren't all we'd hoped they'd be, the movie as a whole was watchable. Gary Busey, beset by whatever personal demons he was battling at the time, did a decent job of sucking it up and getting the job done. Even that irritating kid did a good job, but the girl was the standout performer. And you just gotta love a preacher with an eye patch who turns into a f---ing werewolf. Like UNDER THE DOME (and FIRESTARTER and CAT'S EYE and NIGHT FLYER, etc.), SILVER BULLET was shot here in Crack Town. Them was the days...