Silver Bullet
It started in May. In a small town. And every month after that whenever the moon was full...It came back.
The small city of Tarker's Mills is startled by a series of sadistic murders. The population fears the work of a maniac, but sightings of a mysterious, hairy creature soon spread. People lock themselves up at night, but there's one boy who's still outside…
Why watch Silver Bullet
A wheelchair-bound kid armed with a silver bullet becomes your town's only defense against a werewolf—it's Stand By Me meets An American Werewolf in London, filtered through Stephen King's gift for making small-town dread feel suffocatingly real. Corey Haim carries the film with a scrappy determination that grounds the supernatural chaos, while Gary Busey's feral intensity as the creature itself feels genuinely unpredictable.
Director Daniel Attias nails the '80s horror sweet spot: practical creature effects that still hold up, a synth-driven score that crawls under your skin, and pacing that never lets you exhale. The film toggles between genuine scares and moments of dark humor without ever feeling campy or cheap. It's got the craft-first sensibility of prestige horror before that phrase even existed.
This is essential viewing if you love creature features with heart—films where the monster mythology matters less than how ordinary people respond when their world stops making sense. Silver Bullet doesn't just deliver jump scares; it builds an atmosphere of paranoia and isolation that lingers. You'll be thinking about that final act twist for days, and the image of a kid in a wheelchair facing down something inhuman will stick with you long after the credits roll.
— The What2Watch desk · US
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The small city of Tarker's Mills is startled by a series of sadistic murders. The population fears the work of a maniac, but sightings of a mysterious, hairy creature soon spread. People lock themselves up at night, but there's one boy who's still outside…
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What makes this movie a winner to me is that the Boogeyman can be anyone; and usually is the person we want to trust in the most outside of a Supreme Higher power than ourselves; this movie is great because, it shares a great bond and obligation between siblings and family, with family support, open-mindedness, and will; brings back that old saying; If there's a will there's a way. Well thought out from the beginning…Show more
Quaint comic book werewolf flick by Stephen King RELEASED IN 1985 and directed by Daniel Attias, "Silver Bullet" chronicles events in a small town in Eastern America when a ferocious werewolf starts picking people off one-by-one. Corey Haim and Megan Follows play the adolescent brother/sister protagonists, the boy being a paraplegic. Gary Busey appears as the amiable alcoholic uncle while Robin Groves plays the mo…Show more
Like a children's horror movie that still has some **actual** horror, Busey chews up _Silver Bullet_ hard, because of course he does, but it was still pretty enjoyable. If you **are** feeling a retro sort a deal, I can recommend it, not strongly, but there's a mood you can be in where _Silver Bullet_ is much appreciated. _Final rating:★★★ - I liked it. Would personally recommend you give it a go._
Better than its reputation. Warning: Spoilers Silver Bullet is directed by Daniel Attias and adapted for the screen by Stephen King from his own novelette "Cycle Of The Werewolf". It stars Gary Busey, Corey Haim, Megan Follows, Everett McGill & Terry O'Quinn. The film is set in the small rural town of Tarker's Mills, Maine, which falls prey to a series of grizzly murders. At first the killings are believed to…Show more
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