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Silver Bullet

1985 • 1h 35m •
Horror
MOVIEVIBE Rating
★ 6.7/10
725 reviews
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Silver Bullet

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…

"It started in May. In a small town. And every month after that whenever the moon was full...It came back."

Top Billed Cast

Gary Busey
Gary Busey
Uncle Red
Everett McGill
Everett McGill
Reverend Lowe
Tovah Feldshuh
Tovah Feldshuh
Older Jane (voice)
Megan Follows
Megan Follows
Jane Coslaw
Corey Haim
Corey Haim
Marty Coslaw
Terry O'Quinn
Terry O'Quinn
Sheriff Joe Haller
Robin Groves
Robin Groves
Nan Coslaw
Leon Russom
Leon Russom
Bob Coslaw

Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews

R Rosemary Johnsobn Verified TMDB Critic
2016-07-14

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 to the end. Love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...

W Wuchak Verified TMDB Critic
2018-05-08

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 mother. Everett McGill is on hand as a prominent minister while Terry O'Quinn appears as the sheriff.

Stephen King wrote both the novella and the screenplay and so the movie has t...

G Gimly Verified TMDB Critic
2019-01-20

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._...

J John Chard Verified TMDB Critic
2019-10-04

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 be the work of a mad man, with the town ready to take up vigilante arms against the perpetrator, but young wheelchair bound Marty (Haim) is convinced something more lupine like is...