Stephen King: Ranking His Films From Worst To Best
27. Silver Bullet
1985's Silver Bullet is very loosely drawn from the King novella Cycle Of The Werewolf, which was not great to start with. Reviewers at the time took the hysterical and divergences from the source material as King (who wrote the screenplay) and director Daniel Attias actively critiquing and/or mocking the genre King primarily works in. The story of a series of unsolved murders which plague a family over the course of a years is needlessly complicated, involves all sorts of astrological and mystical mumbo jumbo, and an inexcusably terrible lycanthrope in the era of An American Werewolf In London. It's mainly interesting because it's mostly forgotten, despite being a big deal at the time; it stars Gary Busey, Corey Haim in his eighties heyday, and Lost's Terry O'Quinn back when he used to have hair. A supernatural slasher flick that probably should've gone direct-to-video, filmed in about two-and-a-half months.
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