Summer of Stephen
Title: Silver Bullet
Release Date: 1985 Length: 1 hour 34 minutes Start Date: December 28, 2018 End Date: December 28, 2018 Director: Dan Attias Starring: Gary Busey, Corey Haim, Megan Follows, Everett McGill This movie is so dumb, and for that I love it. It’s campy in all the best ways and absolutely does not take itself too seriously. The special effects are about as good as you can expect from an 80’s movie and the acting is about as good as you can expect from Gary Busey. For the most part, this movie follows the book pretty well. A werewolf attacks every month during the full moon, but is wounded by Marty, a young paraplegic, who shoots the werewolf in the eye with a firework. This leads Marty to discovering the human identity of the werewolf, as the town minister suddenly starts wearing an eyepatch the day after the Fourth of July. Eventually, Marty convinces his uncle to get him silver bullets and they take out the werewolf. Because Gary Busey is basically playing himself as the eccentric uncle, he’s kind of the best part of this movie. Megan Follows is horribly underutilized as Marty’s sister, but I’m biased because I grew up watching her in Anne of Green Gables. And Everett McGill was a little too good-looking as the minister, which made me slightly uncomfortable. Overall, this was an enjoyable movie that I will probably never watch again.
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