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seriously 20+

I have seen this movie when I was 12 years old at a friends place at broad daylight.Movies don't scare me at all, I have seen the faces of deaths series while eating stuff you don't want to eat when you're watching a medical item on tv or when you're having a hangover; with no problem whatsoever.I am the guy that laughs at the rotten.com pictures when my friends are running to the toilet.. And I saw the Blair Witch Project thinking it was real, but I think I was less scared then the others who knew it was a fake.With this in your mind, picture me right now sitting at my computer at 1 AM looking over my shoulder everytime I hear some sounds coming from the stairs or the hallway..THIS IS WHAT SILVER BULLET DID TO ME !!!And I have seen that movie 10 years ago ! After I had seen it I had problems sleeping for a couple of months. With the time the haunted feeling faded. A couple of years after that I finally had the guts to go see the movie again, and BOOM there it was again, luckily the "fear" now lasted for only a few nights.. But every time I hear or see something about this movie my skin crawls and I keep looking behind me for some time.With that said I must conclude with the compliments to the music behind this movie. Especially the suspence sounds (I think it's basicly some sort of strings) do their job excellent. Maybe that's even what makes it so scary....

really good

This is a really good movie. I bought it one day because i am a big fan of Corey Haim and heard he was in it. He did such a good job in it as well as the rest of the cast. It was a really good movie and is pretty scary the first time you see it. (SPOILER) If you are squeamish u might have to cover your eyes a few times. One scene that grossed me out the most was when the wolf started clawing the skin off of the lady's back...ewww it made me squirm in my chair big time! But all in all i thought it was a really good movie and think everyone should see it!

Good little Fim

Based on the book by Stephen King,Silver Bullet is the story about A young cripple Boy named Marty(Corey Haim) who suspects that the killer in town is a werewolf.With the help of his sister Jane(Megan Follows) And Uncle Red(Gary Busey),They try to discover who the werewolf is and try to kill it...This is not a perfect movie,But it is a fun movie.The acting was pretty good,The kills were gory and cool,The werewolf affects were pretty cool,And it played out like a good mystery.The end was pretty cool and the car chasing scene was cool.If your a fan of werewolf movies or Stephen King,You should cheek it out.The werewolf beating the guys with the bat was kind of funny to.

One of my all-time favorites...

I first saw this movie when I was ten years old, my uncle, a horror fanatic, showed this to me and my brother and it scared the living soul out of me.Ten years later it still remains as one of my favorite horror films of all time and I consider it one of the best of King's work.When a small town is being ravaged by horrible mutilations, townsfolks begin to think it may be a monster doing the killings. A small crippled boy comes in contact with the werewolf and confides in his older sister and uncle and they all set out on a search for the monster. What they discover will be shocking.The film is very well directed and relies a lot on tension and atmosphere and solely on the acting which is performed well by Corey Haim, Megan Follows and Garey Busey who is immensely likable and memorable as the uncle.The film itself as a horror movie is excellent with a lot of sheer tension and some great horror scenes in which we never see the werewolf until the end. That's an aspect that makes this film truly horrifying and the murders are gruesome and never pulls its punches. The mysterious identity of the werewolf is shocking and it leaves us on pins and needles until the exciting end of the film.I highly suggest this among horror fans and think it's worth a look.***half out of **** stars.

Narration

I give this movie 4 stars. In my opinion Silver Bullet would not have been as successful had it not been for the narrator's compelling voice. Her voice immediately insensed viewing interest.

It was a brilliant idea to have Marty's sister narrate the story and loaded with a fine cast the movie couldn't help but be a winner. Two thumps to Stephen King for the Narrational idea.

One of Steven King's better movies

'Steven King's Silver Bullet' is one of the better adaptations of King's works.**SPOILERS**The town of Larker's Mill is threatening with a lot of strange missing person cases. As the town celebrates it founding day, one of the townspeople is killed. Sheriff Joe Haller (Terry O'Quinn) is under pressure from the town to solve it, and he sets out to investigate. An eccentric builder, Uncle Red (Gary Busey) arrives in town to visit his nephew, Marty, (Corey Haim) a crippled teenager who is confined to a wheelchair. A third animal attack reels the town, forcing Haller to put in a curfew. That still doesn't stop the killer, only this time it is Marty's best friend, Brady (Joe Wright). His father (Kent Broadhurst) organizes a town search party to go into the woods to find the killer, but they mostly end up being killed. Only a few survive, which cancels the rest of the town's celebrations for Independence Day. Uncle Red announces that he has to go back, leaving Marty by himself. That night, he sneaks out and shoots off some fireworks and finds out that the killer is a werewolf. Wounding the werewolf, he asks his sister Jane (Megan Follows) to go around town looking for people with an eye-patch. Only one person has one, Reverend Lowe (Everett McGill). Convinced that he is right, Jane agrees to help him solve the mystery in the town and find the real killer werewolf. The Good News: I really like this werewolf movie. It does have a lot more suspense than most werewolf movies. To me, the part that really made me jump was the hunting party in the woods. There is a few people wandering around with flashlights in a fog-covered forest, with the fog coming up to their waist. They start to hear very low growling, which is the growling werewolf, then each one is killed by a very cleverly placed jumps to signal their ends. It is spread out for several minutes, making the scene pretty long scene with ample jumps and kills. It does have a creepy atmosphere to it, as does the rest of the movie after the discovery that the killer is a werewolf. The attacks are all carried out in a scene that provides at least a good, cheap scare. Normally, films aren't necessarily content to doing the thoughtful scare and the cheap one, but this film walks a very fine line between the two and includes the both of them together in a very entertaining way. The two do go hand-in-hand together and the creepy effect they have is almost irreplaceable. I believe that this may be King's second best adoption. Keep in mind that by this I mean that of all the movies that have been made based on his books, I think only 'The Shining' eclipses this one. That is not to say that this is the best story, but is in fact one of the better films made from his ideas. Even the identity of the werewolf was a bit of a shock the first. It does take a while before it becomes very easy to guess who it really is. His attacks are very brutal. The film has some great-looking gore and some pretty bloody leftovers from the attacks. They were really bad and messed up, leaving nothing to be desired and a treat in itself for the bloodhounds.The Bad News: The werewolf itself is not in the least frightening or all that scary. The wolf is a badly made-up version of the one from 'The Howling' and comes off not in the least bit threatening. Even worse for it is that the werewolf is one the screen for so little time that it looks like it does have a very cheap design. It's nothing a few more snipes and cuts could've cure, but the result on film is a terrible looking werewolf. Another strike against it is that there was no reason for the film to be around. There was no storyline for the wolf's existence. It simply was, that was it. There was no territory invasion that he was trying to repel, no acting out to understand why the curse was in him, almost real motive for the werewolf was given. All werewolf films have a motive for the werewolves, and in King's novella, he had a really great motive. It was a shame that it was never transported over into the film.The Final Verdict: If the werewolf were given a motive of some sort, this would be among the top werewolf films of all time. As it stands, this is still a really great film and is one of the better films made from Steven King. Definitely worth a look for werewolf fans as well.Rated R: Graphic Violence, violence on children, Graphic Language, and mild alcohol abuse.

A fun, low-key horror

Silver Bullet is my favorite of Steven King's horror adaptations (yes, I do like this better than The Shining) . King even penned the screenplay himself (from his short story 'The Cycle of the Werewolf'), but since he was also responsible for the awful Maximum Overdrive, that's no solid proof of quality. But it a damn cool movie.What makes it so different and unique is that it's horror movie told from a child's perspective (though I admit that the retrospective narration seems out of place) and has a brother/sister dynamic that's quite cute and makes you really care for the characters.Corey Haim plays Marty Coslaw, a young boy who is confined to a wheelchair for reasons unknown. His older sister Jane is forced to take care of him and throws tantrums whenever the mum and dad take Marty's side (which is always). But the chair doesn't stop Marty from being mischievous. Especially when his manic, reckless Uncle Red (a fat Gary Busey-absolutely brilliant, as always) builds him a motorized wheelchair/bike called the Silver Bullet.There is killer in their small town who strikes every month when the moon is full. The townsfolk gradually become more and more weary as autumn rolls on and Marty takes a personal offence when his best friend is murdered, his best girl is run out of town and a fireworks display is cancelled. Then he witnesses what the killer really is. But who is going to believe a kid's story of a werewolf? Despite the red-herrings, it's easy to figure out who it is before the main revelation. But it's still a fun mystery.Filmed with the little-used JDC-Scope process, Silver Bullet has brilliant cinematography by Armando Nannuzzi and a wonderful score by Jay Chattaway. There's not much horror to it, but I don't think it was ever the intention to dwell on the violence. Even though I would call this film suitable for kids (despite the 18/R-rating) it's still way better than the PG-13 junk we get these days.The film is also notable for Everett McGill (so evil as the baddie in Under Siege 2), an under-rated and under-used actor in a typically eccentric role as a charismatic Reverend. Doesn't he look like a cross between Christopher Reeve and David Hasselhoff? A perfect Halloween movie or any night with the curtains drawn and lights off.

Classic Stephen King!

This was a great movie!I love the DVD,my only complaint is the mono sound.I wish they could of remaster the sound to 5.1 surround.And it would also of been nice to see some Special features.Interview with the cast or Stephen King.But this a Paramount DVD,old horror movies they dont seem to care about.But they must care for this movie,since they are doing a Silver Bullet part 2.It's on the countingdown.com list of upcoming movies.Another Warewolf is Attacking Tarkersmill,who is it this time?Is it the revrends replacement?Town Doctor?Or maby a house wife? I hope 2 does happen?If not a 2 how about a remake?

Narration

I give this movie 4 stars. In my opinion Silver Bullet would not have been as successful had it not been for the narrator's charming voice. Her voice immediately insensed viewing interest.

It was a brilliant idea to have Marty's sister narrate the story and loaded with a fine cast the movie couldn't help but be a winner. Two thumps to Stephen King for the Narrational idea.

One of The Best Werewolf Films!!!!!!

The master of horror Stephen King,brings to life one of the best werewolf film ever made.A boy bound to a wheelchair,knows who's killing everybody in town,knows who is stalking him at night.And the answer is a werewolf.Now he and Uncle and sister must stop the creature before it's to late. Starring:Gary Busey,Corey Haim,and Everett McGill all deliver solid performances in one of one of my favorite and best werewolf films ever made.My others are,and not in any order,are Ginger Snaps,Wolf,An American Werewolf in London and it's funny as hell sequel An American Werewolf in Paris,Underworld,and The Howling.The ones I can't wait for is Ginger Snaps II:Unleashed,Ginger Snaps Back,and Curse. If you'll looking for a great werewolf movie with gore,horror,comedy,than this is the movie for you.

the best werewolf movie of the 80's

Sliver Bullet is a Great S.King book too movie transfer. The werewolf make up is second only too American Werewolf in London.
In a small town there are mysterious killings.A boy in a wheelchair:With a big imagination. A uncle who (against parent permission)provides,a motorized wheel chair & fire works for the best forth of July.The town minster who has a deadly secret. Is the minsters sercret the cause of all the towns problems or is it something else.
The movie based it story of carnage around only the forth of july where as the book circled the entire caldar of holidays.

i loved it!

personally, i am a huge fan of stephen king. i love all of his movies. i really liked this one because there aren't that many good werewolf movies out there for people to see. it's a shame. i highly recommend this movie because even though it is pretty predictable, it is still entertaining.

Doesn't Follow the novelette very well, but yet the same writer wrote the screenplay.?

When I saw Silver Bullet I was somewhat disapointed with it. It doesn't follow the story very well. It is kind of suspenseful and unsettling, but not really scary. I have noticed that with Stephen King story's they are all very good in a novel, but if Stephen King writes the screenplay they don't work on film, but if someone like William Goldman writes the screenplay they turn out really good.
This movie is about a boy named Marty who is paralyzed below the knees who begins to notice something about the gruesome murders happening in the town of Tarker's Mills.
His Uncle Red(Al in the novelette)gives him fireworks one night and he sneaks out to set them off. He is having a good time when something that looks like a werewolf tries to attack him. He sets of a rocket into the beast's eye and drives off in his motorized wheelchair. Now he knows that someone in the town has only one eye and he sets off to find that person. This had potential to be really good, but it doesn't make the viewer wait to see who the person is it just reveals them within 10 minutes after the event. The climax and the makeup is about the only good thing this movie has going for it. See this movie if you have read the story "Cycle of the Werewolf" but if you haven't read it I would advise against wasting your time.Content-Rated "R" Violence, some gore, and language(2 F-words)

I wish I had seen this when I was a kid.

It was probably just the result of an excellent marketing campaign, but Stephen King is known around the world as THE Master of Horror. I've read a lot of Stephen King novels and seen even more movies based on them, and I have always felt that King achieves mixed results in his work. Some of it is excellent, and some of it leaves you feeling as though he lost interest in the story and just stopped writing. Hardly the work of a "master". However, the one thing that King does consistently succeed at is his portrayal of childhood. King has a talent for describing the childhood that you wish that you had. The best example of this is "The Body" (a novella contained in Apt Pupil : A Novella in Different Seasons), which was turned into the movie Stand By Me (Special Edition). A lesser known, but still equally excellent example is "Silver Bullet".

"Silver Bullet", loosely based on King's "Cycle of the Werewolf" and scripted by King, is the story of Marty Coslaw (played by Corey Haim when he was still young and cute), a young, wheelchair-bound, boy who becomes convinced that a werewolf is murdering people in his small town in Maine. Ultimately, he convinces his sister (played by Megan Follows of "Anne of Green Gables" fame) and uncle (Gary Busey) that what he believes is true and together they must defeat the werewolf before it gets them.


Although "Silver Bullet" is an excellent horror movie that is still very watchable, even more than 20 years after it was made, it is as a film about people that this film excels. King insights into the relationship between brothers and sisters and into how things can change as people transition from childhood to adulthood are deeper than many that I have seen in award winning dramas.

This is an intelligent movie that speaks, without condescension, to the child in all of us. I would recommend this film to all children, but since many people out there are, like me, no longer children, I recommend this film to all adults too, as a way of revisiting the childhood memories you wish you had.

Super Scary

This movie was really scary. It got really bad reviews, and I don't understand why. True, there is a little bit of gore in it at the beginning, but so what. Really well done.

Hurricane22,

Amateur Movie Critic

Revenge of the 80's: From the works of Stephen King!

Silver Bullet (1985) was another bad adaptation of a Stephen King novel. The book was originally based upon an idea for a calender. But the original concept was expanded to novel size. Like any book that was printed during the eighties, it was seized by Dino De Laurentis (a major Stephen King movie backer) and optioned for a film release. The film would star Coery Haim (one of the two infamous Coreys) Megan Follows and the "new" look of Gary Busey (re-inventing himself as a NIck Nolte wannabe).The film makers didn't know if they wanted to be serious or a cheesy parody. The sad results are on the screen. I was expecting more when I first saw it. But I was disappointed. It would have been a great spoof but I guess that wasn't in the cards. Who or what is stalking the residents? Why did Gary Busey change his image? What is The Silver Bullet? You'll have to find out for yourself when you watch SILVER BULLET!Not recommended (unless you're an eighties horror fan).

Marty vs "something".

Silver Bullet is one of best movies made from a short story from Stephen King. Most of the movies are not so good because the subject it outstretched to cover the full length of the movie. In this case it's a wonderfull story with strong performances from Corey Haim (Marty) (in 1985 when the film was released at the start of a tv carreer) and Gary Busy (his oncle)(he can play nice guys as well ! ). When something is killing people in a small town, Marty discovers what is going on, but who will believe him without proof? Tarker's Mill is haunted when the moon is full...

Not scary enough to have you make Lemonade in your pants but not bad.

From Stephen King comes a tale about a werewolf creating hate and discontent in a small town as it tears up a few of the residents. The townies don't like the way the sheriff is handling things and decide to take to the fog infested woods to hunt down what ever it is that's turning their fellow citizens into hamburg. A local boy confined to a motorized wheelchair thinks he knows what the evil really is. Can he convince anyone including his good natured drunken uncle played by Gary Busey? It's along the lines of a 50's ish B grade horror flick. The werewolf could have been better done and comes off as something you would expect to see in a Little Red Riding Hood film. Terry O'Quinn of "Stepfather" films is the towns Sheriff and Everett McGill is cast as a reverend who tries in vain to keep the townies spiritually guided as the menace continues. If you've never seen this picture do your self a favor and rent it vice seeing it on TV. It's usually edited for television and even though the editing is minor it's still better on video.

Great werewolf movie.

Wheelchair-bound teenager Cory Haim,his sister and his alcoholic uncle(Gary Busey)uncover a werewolf who has terrorized a small New England town of Tarker Mills for years.One night a drunken railroad engineer looses his head and the town think he just fell asleep on the tracks,until more murders begin to happen,each one more gruesome than the next.Soon the townsfolk believe its some maniac killer on the loose and intend to hunt the man down.Marty Coslaw,a young wheelchair bound boy,believes that the killer is no man at all,but a werewolf..."Silver Bullet" is an adaptation of Stephen King's short story.The film itself is quite enjoyable and has a special place in my heart,mainly because I saw it for the first time when I was a kid.The story is gripping and surprisingly atmospheric and there are some gory deaths.The acting is fine and the action is never dull.Overall,if you haven't seen this one yet give it a try.Fans of werewolf horror movies won't be disappointed. 8 out of 10.

"There are no such things as werewolves!"

~Spoiler~I owe quite a bit to this movie for opening up a lot of doors. Silver Bullet is one of the first horror movies I saw when I was a kid and has since gained it's own special place in my heart. And it's still a classic to this day. I love to watch it. The dream sequence is one of my favorite scenes. As well as the hunt for the werewolf after the fireworks accident. The werewolves identity is hidden very well. I had no idea who it was when I first watched it, of course I was probably six years old though. Everett McGill plays the best role in the movie. Especially when Corey Haim finds out he's the wolf. I think he scares me more when he's in human form. The werewolf itself isn't bad though. The best effects are at the end when the hair is receding to reveal the Reverend's body. It's not the best werewolf effects, however. The Howling and An American Werewolf in London boast far better transformation scenes. And does anyone remember the Monster Squad? That movie had a killer werewolf. But Silver Bullet is on the list of best werewolf movies. Stephen King wrote it based on his book, so there is no rape of his material (unlike most King flicks). Fans should be pleased, especially with the scene where the sheriff is carrying the bloody kite, it's the best.