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Summary: Highly Recommended
Review: Great film,great cast!!!
Corey Haim plays Wheelchair Bound Marty,a 12 year old boy in a small town.
Strange murders are happening in the town and eventually Corey and his older sister discover who the werewolf is.
Gary Busey is superb as the borderline drunk uncle who builds a
suped up motorised wheel chair called the silver bullet for Corey.
Corey Haim gives a
very good performance for his age but he goes on to make films that do not show his true acting ability which is a real shame
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Summary: King's Halloween Monster Mash Treat
Review: Based on the very good novella, CYCLE OF THE WEREWOLF, Director Attias has done a fine job in bringing King's monster mash thriller to the screen. Even diehard fans admit King often has not translated well to the movie medium. Non-fans think...Writely so?...his books could use some judicious editing. Not so with SIVLER BULLET. From the jump, an ambience of brooding menace is created and sustained by the story's focus on "unbelieved" children discovering The Unbelievable. Gary Busey is great as Uncle Red: friend, mentor and ultimately protector of his neice and nephew (appealingly played by Megan Follows and Corey Haim) who unluckily discover the identity of the town's local member of THE WEREWOLF community. One of King's strong points has always been contrasting salt-of-the-earth New England settings with scary stuff reminiscent of Poe and Lovecraft. Everett McGill is good as the not-quite-tragically cursed Wolfster. When he cries, "It's not my fault!" to children he's about to chow down-on, a viewer's sympathy is taxed to the max when he recalls what The Beast's "Day Time Job" is. SIVLER BULLET is a winner because...unlike versions of "epics" like THE SHINING or SALEM's LOT...the story gets to its toothy-point quickly and stays there. This is really a classic Bogey-Man movie: the thing that wants to eat kids up. It's a Halloween treat that can be enjoyed anytime.
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Summary: Don't be Fooled This is the WORST Werewolf movie of all time
Review: This movie [stinks] big time. The ending was a disappointment, the werewolf was weak, and I really didn't see were he was really all that scary nor did he hardly do any killing for this to be a werewolf flick. Gary Busey is a good actor but, this role definitely wasn't for him, and I don't know what he was thinking when he agreed to do this horrible movie. This movie certainly does not make it on my favorite movies by Corey Haim list.
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Summary: Don't be Fooled This is the WORST Werewolf movie of all time
Review: This movie sucks big time. The ending was a disappointment, the werewolf was weak, and I really didn't see were he was really all that scary nor did he hardly do any killing for this to be a werewolf flick. Gary Busey is a good actor but, this role definitely wasn't for him, and I don't know what he was thinking when he agreed to do this horrible movie. This movie certainly does not make it on my favorite movies by Corey Haim list.
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Summary: Scary.
Review: This is one of my favorite werewolf movies and one of Corey Haim's better films. It is scary without too much gore. The special effects are good for the time period and the story is great. This is no mindless horror flick. I would recommend it to anyone who likes werewolf movies.
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Summary: This is NOT a good movie!
Review: "Silver Bullet" is one of the most amateurish movies I have seen. It has no idea of whether it wants to be a horror film or a comedy, a looking-back narration or a present-tense thriller. It doesn't know where it is going, and tries to be everything all at once. As a result it is a mess with the very annoying Corey Haim- the lesser talented one of the two Coreys.It's not funny. It's not scary. It's narrated, at times, by Megan Fallows' character which makes no sense because she is just a minor character. Gary Busey can be a very effective and entertaining actor, but in "Silver Bullet" it looks like he was just collecting a paycheck to fuel his raging cocaine habit and that he was indulging in that habit on the set. He's a wreck! "Silver Bullet" ranks as one of the worst movies of the 80's, its only saving grace is that bad movie lovers might get a kick out of its awfulness. Did MST3000 ever do a show on this movie?
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Summary: Pure fear but the werewolf is a pure monster!
Review: This film by Stephen King is very effective as for fear and suspense. The trick of the film, that I cannot reveal, is that the werewolf is THE person no one would suspect. The great merit of the film is that the werewolf is killed by a young handicapped boy and by his sister, with the help of their uncle and a silver bullet, of course. This executioning team is not a surprise in Stephen King's world of suspense. There is somewhere in his world the belief that only people who believe in dreams and nightmares, i.e. children, can confront and destroy evil in this world. The theme of the handicapped person at the center of the tale is common in King's books and many have to be quoted : « The Talisman », « The Stand », for example. We could do the same thing with girls : « Carrie », « The Firestarter », for two. The only shortcoming of the film is that we do not feel the twelve month cycle of the original novella that was written for a special calendar. But I guess this is not very important here. We can also regret the systematic compliance of King with the tradition when he deals with monsters like vampires or werewolves, and lately extraterrestrials. They are monsters, and nothing else, that have to be destroyed. There is never any kind of second vision, regeneration, epiphany. So don't look for any deviation from the normal course of such a story. Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, Paris Universities II and IX.
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Summary: One of the best "attempts" to adapt a King novel
Review: I saw this movie in the theater with my church youth group way back in my early teens. After the movie, while we were all loading back into the church van, our pastor walks up wearing an eye patch. Now that was classic! Out of this trip to the movies, I became hooked on all things Stephen King. Today, I own all his books in hard back and all the videos made from his works. I hope that lends some credibility to me when I make the statement "This is one of the best Stephen King films". Corey Haim is excellent as Marty (a wheel chair bound pre teen), Gary Busey is hilarious and steals the show as Uncle Red (who builds Marty a wheel chair that is faster than my car). Everett McGill plays the pastor and the turmoil of his character is evident and well protrayed. The special effect are very good considering the time period, with the ending sequence when the werewolf is killed still among the best of all werewolf movies. Not very scary, but a very good story and well acted. There are some scenes that give away who the werewolf really is and it doesn't take a keen eye pick up on these. This predictibility is the only major draw back to a pretty solid film. Very much worth picking up.
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Summary: "Watch Out For The Werewolf"
Review: Silver Bullet is essential Halloween time viewing and after watching it on television (edited for content, of course) for years I finally decided to just buy it. Stephen King adapted his novella Cycle of the Werewolf to be even bloodier and more terrifying on screen. Changing such things as the body count to the lunar cycle restraints for the Werewolf's savage killings King made an extremely entertaining Werewolf film possible. The film is a bit dated in the special effects department, but for some reason that only adds to the appeal. Knowing that at the time it was filmed the effects were top notch and the story keeping to key elements of the novella. Such as who the Werewolf is and that the protagonist, Marty is still a parapalegic. Great performances by Gary Busey as "cool" Uncle Red and Everett McGill (later to be seen in Wes Craven's The People Under the Stairs). The atmosphere and small town element are two of King's endearing qualities as a writer, he really can write about a tightly knit community. Some really graphic death scenes and a sometime silly looking/sometime frightening Werewolf make this a perrenial favorite of any Horror film buff! I recommend buying and reading Cycle of the Werewolf and then buying Silver Bullet. For Horror fans, for Stephen King fans, and for movie fans in general this a great way to kill a rainy afternoon or a dark October night. "What the heck you gonna shoot a .44 bullet at anyway, made out of silver?" "How 'bout a Werewolf?"
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Summary: One of the few good Stephen King movie adaptations
Review: "Carrie" is arguably the only other King story that adapted well to the silver screen. Too often a screen play from a Stephen King book is either entirely made-up and works nothing like the original story or crams in too many partial details that can't be explained in 90 minutes (if they ever could). "Silver Bullet" is a very simple story that only centers around four main characters (including the werewolf). It's only about a boy trying to get help from his family to kill a werewolf. If a werewolf actually existed, that scenario is as close to reality as any other. No time is wasted on exploring the poor tortured soul of the werewolf that's typical of these stories. There are no scenes of stupid-citizen-who-has-all-the-evidence-but-doesn't-believe-it-and-becomes-victim-number-5. Well, not really. Yes, this probably is the best reason to see Corey Haim act. Megan Follows is very good as the older sister just before she did "Anne of Green Gables". Gary Busey is entirely believable as the uncle who tries to relate to the kids more as a big brother. I think we all know a relative of ours or someone else's that plays that role. The werewolf costume looks like a costume, but then the artificial shark in "Jaws" wasn't very good either. Like "the Fog" and "Tremors", this is a good horror film that hasn't gotten the positive attention is deserves.
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