8 Most Ridiculous Stephen King Adaptations Of All Time

8. Silver Bullet (1985)

Adapted by King from his novella Cycle Of The Werewolf, which most readers would agree is €œnot one of his best€, Silver Bullet takes place in Tarker€™s Mills, a small town populated by character actors. Gary Busey (who€™s either high or pretending to be) is the town drunk, the local bar is owned by Lawrence Tierney and the Sheriff is The Stepfather himself, Terry O€™Quinn, who according to one redneck couldn€™t find his ass if it was radioactive and he owned a Geiger counter. The redneck is proved correct when a werewolf starts tearing the town€™s residents to pieces, and even though the first victim is decapitated, O€™Quinn attributes it to an alcohol-related €œaccident.€ Fortunately, the town is also home to Corey Haim, who uses his high-powered motorised wheelchair ("It's an ass kicker!" says Busey) to hunt down the culprit before the next full moon. This is one of those movies where all the adults are either sincere but useless or downright evil, and only a pre-teen can save the day, but that's far from the extent of the film's silliness. In one of the funniest scenes, Everett McGill (who's about as convincing a Priest as Frank Sinatra was in The Miracle Of The Bells) sees his congregation turn into werewolves, which of course turns out to be a dream. Haim eventually comes to believe McGill might be his man, setting up the movie's big action sequence - a 'thrilling' chase where our wheelchair-bound hero is pursued down the back roads at 50 mph. Bullitt was never like this.