Continuing to review werewolf movies in chronological order, we're now at 1985 with Stephen King's Silver Bullet. King adapted from his own novella "Cycle of the Werewolf" filling it with a nice small town atmosphere and plenty of interesting characters. Corey Haim plays a handicapped kid named Marty who functions in a motorized wheelchair. Megan Follows is his teen sister, Jane. Gary Busey is their alcoholic Uncle Red who Marty idolizes because of his carefree attitude. I'll stop there and just say the killings are graphic the first two times, then one-because it's of a minor-isn't shown, and several more happen under a fog so you don't see too much of what happens there. There's also some intentionally funny lines that I liked such as when a woman asks her husband "Are you going to make lemonade in your pants?" Can't believe I didn't get to watch this until a little more than 30 years after it was first released! So on that note, I highly recommend Silver Bullet.

I definitely didn't expect a masterpiece, but Silver Bullet can sure count on many good and suspenceful scenes, unfortunally weighted down by a few unhappy ones that didn't manage to do them justice. The make up too is rather fickle, but overall the movie doesn't disappoint, being also rather faithful to the beautiful Stephen Kings' short novel.

A pretty good werewolf flick, one of the best from the 80's, not as good as American Werewolf in London (I don't think many werewolf films are) and on par with The Howling. Perhaps a little too predictable, and its not incredibly original either but manages to deliver us some great werewolf action, I really loved these scenes, they were suspenseful and the gore was fantastic (some of the attacks were funny and I don't know whether it was intentional or not but they were fun to watch nonetheless).I liked the kids in the film they did good, and I also loved Gary Busey in this, he's always a delight to watch.Roger Ebert liked this better than London and the Howling, and I like this one but I don't know what Roger found in this movie that made him rate this higher than those films. Anyway, Silver Bullet its an awesome movie, check it out if you haven't.

In my obsession with werewolves, I'm quite sure I've seen all werewolf movies out there (except for some of the most obscure low- budget ones, I suppose), and I have yet to find a better one than Silver Bullet.Although some parts of it are a bit dated today, the effects are still far better than the CGI we see in more contemporary werewolf movies. The werewolf in Silver Bullet does not grow into a muscular super-monster, but remains unnervingly human under the wolf-like exterior (seen particularly through the many close ups of its eyes), and that goes for the personality as well. There is depth to the character, rather than him being just a bad guy who turns into a wolf.Although it does not scare me sleepless as it did when I was a kid, some scenes are still incredibly frightening. Oh, and Gary Busey is just as insane as needed for the part!