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Release Date: 19 August, 2003 Retail Price: $14.99 OUR Price: $11.99 You SAVE: $3.00! Cast: Complete Cast (9 total) |
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Stephen King Does Werewolves
This is the story of a small town that becomes the home of a vicious werewolf. People are violently killed and no one can figure out by whom.
A young boy confined to a wheelchair is the central character. Every month his uncle (Gary Busse) comes growling into town. He is a wild sort who likes to get drunk. But his influence is enough to spark the imagination necessary to for the boy to suspect the killings are done by a werewolf.
Meanwhile, the town is up in arms about the killings and feel the local law enforcement is not doing enough. Vigilantism is at hand.
Eventually the boy manages to convince his sister that someone is a werewolf. He tells her how to find it and she does. Then they must figure out who to put a stop to it.
The film is full of the wonderful imagery associated with King's better films (Christine, Carrie, Needful Things, Stand By Me, etc.) and has real surprises. I have seen the movie more than once and enjoyed it all times. Knowing who the werewolf was did not ruin it.
If you like werewolf films, this is one of the better ones out there. You might also want to check out Dog Soldiers if you like this one.
King's Halloween Monster Mash Treat
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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