Silver Bullet

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Violent * No Strong Language * No Sexual Situations *   </div> <div> * No Nudity *</div> <bR> <div> 1985/Color/95 Min./Paramount Home Video & Paramount & Famous Films B.V. & International Films Corporation/Rated R</div> <bR> <div> Director.........Daniel Attias</div> <div> Screenplay.......Stephen King (Cat's Eye, Maximum Overdrive)</div> <div> Music............Jay Chattaway</div> <div> Producer.........Martha Schumacher (Maximum Overdrive)</div> <div> Director of Photography..Armando Nannuzzi (Maximum Overdrive)</div> <div> Executive Producer.......Dino De Laurentis</div> <div> Based on Stephen King's Novelette "Cycle of the Werewolf"</div> <div> Creatures Created by Carlo Rambaldi (Alien, Cat's Eye, E.T.)</div> <div> Special Effects Make-up Supervised by Michael McCracken Sr.</div> <bR> <div> Dramatis Personae</div> <div> Uncle Red...........Gary Busey (The Buddy Holly Story, The Firm)</div> <div> Reverend Lowe.......Everett McGill (The People Under the Stairs)</div> <div> Marty Coslaw........Corey Haim (The Lost Boys, Lucas, Watchers)</div> <div> Jane Coslaw.........Megan Follows (Anne of Green Gables, Stacking)</div> <div> Sheriff Joe Haller..Terry O'Quinn* (Black Widow, Pin, Stepfather & II)</div> <div> Andy Fairton........Bill Smitrovich (Crime Story, Miami Vice)</div> <div> Nan Coslaw..........Robin Groves (The Nesting)</div> <div> Owen Knopfler ......Lawrence Tierney (Reservoir Dogs, Runestone)</div> <div> Herb Kincaid........Kent Broadhurst (The Dark Half)</div> <div> Bob Coslaw..........Leon Russom </div> <div> Brady Kincaid.......Joe Wright</div> <div> Tammy Sturmfuller...Heather Simmons</div> <div> Milt Sturmfuller....James A. Baffico</div> <div> Mrs. Sturmfuller....Rebecca Fleming</div> <div> Werewolf............Everett McGill (Heartbreak Ridge, Quest for Fire)</div> <div> Arnie Westrom.......James Gammon (Cabin Boy, Major League & II)</div> <bR> <div> Critique: Disabled Marty, sister Jane, and Uncle Red are the last line of defense to save Tarker's Mill from a particularly calculating, moralizing, and heretical werewolf. Corey Haim and Gary Busey lead a strong cast through this traditional, but fun, sometimes scary, sometimes light werewolf thriller, with a few very good chills in the werewolf scenes. First-time director Attias provides a great pace from the opening murder to the final showdown. In yet another creature effects triumph, Carlo Rambaldi manages to subtly give away the identity of the werewolf by uncannily matching the eyes of the culprit with those of the beast. Everett McGill is as scary as the priest as he is as the Werewolf, which is not a shot at Rambaldi's good - if otherwise somewhat run of the (Tarker's) mill werewolf. The narration of older sister Jane, the only trustworthy character, is a nice twist that organizes the action effectively. The beerbellies' attempt to hunt down the werewolf is, like the reverend's dream of a congregation of werewolves, memorable camp. Filmed in Burgaw and Wilmington, NC, the thick forest and swamp settings are the ideal backdrop for a summer vacation-small town hippocracy-werewolf story.   </div> <bR> <div> Plot Summary: Tarker Mills, Maine, Spring 1976. The last full moon of the spring. Railroad workman Arnie Wenstrom is enjoying his Reingold beer as he works and is observed by something in the bush. He sees a werewolf footprint just before his decapitation. In the town, his death is passed off as a drunken rail accident. Narrator Jane, now a grown woman but an early teen at the time, recalls ironically how people cared about each other in Tarker Mills, before beginning to tell the story of that summer vacation with the werewolf. Wheelchair bound 11 year old brother Marty and friend Brady play a trick on Jane by scaring her with a chicken snake. Janie resents having to care for her paralyzed brother. As a pregnant woman is preparing to commit suicide over her pregnancy, she is attacked by the werewolf, who beats her to it. Police chief Joe Haller quickly has his competence called into question. Marty plays poker with his favorite uncle, the ne'er do well drunk Uncle Red, his mother's brother. That night in a nearby home, schoolmate Tammy's father is watching wrestling and enjoying beer when he hears something in the yard. He pulls out his shotgun and weaves outside to investigate. Meanwhile, Mr. Kincaid is looking for his son, Brady. Brady, Marty's friend, was last seen flying his kite. Soon, the bloody kite is discovered. Marty thinks it might be some kind of monster and tells Uncle Red. Red, skeptical of the monster theory, notes that psychotics are more active when the moon is full. A vigilante group is organized. Chief Haller tries to puts a stop to it, but it fails. The beerbellies take to the woods, bloodhounds and all, in a dense fog beneath a full moon, and are forced to retreat when they are easily wiped out by the werewolf in zero visibility. The next day there are a number of coffins in church. Reverend Lowe dreams that the whole town has become werewolves. People are fast abandoning the town. Uncle Red brightens Marty's summer vacation with the "Silver Bullet", a souped-up wheelchair motorcycle. That night, he takes it out for a ride. As he sets off bottle-rockets, also given to him by Red, the werewolf approaches. Marty is trapped on a bridge, but shoots the monster in the eye with a rocket and speeds off with his souped-up chair. The monster plucks out the rocket, losing what remains of its left eye in the process. Red refuses to believe Marty's story, but Janie is beginning to suspect it's true. Under the pretense of collecting for the church can drive, she goes house to house looking for someone with just one eye. Everyone she sees during her exhaustive search has two. Reverend Lowe, however, appears to have had an accident. As Janie is putting away bottles in the church garage, the reverend appears with a patch over one eye, upon which she beats a hasty retreat. Marty puts together a note for the reverend from newsprint: "I know who you are. I know what you are. Why don't you kill yourself?" Red drives the kids to the church and they observe the Reverend. Red, too, is starting to believe. Marty watches the other kids play baseball as the Reverend drives up, then follows Marty home. A wild chase ensues. Soon the Silver Bullet runs out of gas and the Reverend has Marty at his mercy. The Reverend feels he is saving people, for "All things serve the will of God". Suicide is a terrible sin, he explains. Just as Marty's about done for, Mr. Zimmerman tools by in a tractor and Marty is saved. When Red finds paint from the Reverend's blue car on the Silver Bullet, even he is convinced. They go to Sheriff Haller, who agrees to check out Reverend Lowe. Haller visits the rectory that night and enters the garage, where he finds a small dent on the car. Unfortunately, he finds the Reverend as well, who transforms as Haller watches and tears the sheriff apart. Marty and Jane give their crucifix and medallion to Red and he goes to an old world weaponsmith who senses right away what is required of him. Red then claims to have won a trip for two, which he can't use, and gives it to Marty's parents so that the werewolf-hunters can be alone. At 3:10 am on the morning of Halloween, hours after they have given up hope, Red and the children are finally paid a visit. During the ensuing battle with the werewolf, the silver bullet falls into a vent, Marty finally retrieves it and the priest/werewolf is dispatched in the titular traditional fashion.</div> </td> </tr></table></body>