Silver Bullet (1985)

Regisseur:

Daniel Attias

Drehbuchautoren:

Stephen King (novel)
Stephen King (writer)

Premierendatum:

11. Oktober 1985 (USA)

Genre:

Abenteuer | Horror | Mystery

Werbezeile:

It started in May in a small town and every month after that whenever the moon is full... It came back.

Plot:

Werewolf terrorizes small city where lives Marty Coslaw, - a paralytic boy - his uncle and his sister - the narrator of the story.

Plot Keywords:

Stephen King | Reverse Footage | Werewolf | Child Murder | Paraplegic

Filmpreise:

1 nomination

Nutzerkommentare:

Brady's Dad

Besetzung

Gary Busey	...	Uncle Red
Everett McGill	...	Reverend Lowe
Corey Haim	...	Marty Coslaw
Megan Follows	...	Jane Coslaw
Robin Groves	...	Nan Coslaw
Leon Russom	...	Bob Coslaw
Terry O'Quinn	...	Sheriff Joe Haller
Bill Smitrovich	...	Andy Fairton
Joe Wright	...	Brady Kincaid
Kent Broadhurst	...	Herb Kincaid
Heather Simmons	...	Tammy Sturmfuller
James A. Baffico	...	Milt Sturmfuller
Rebecca Fleming	...	Mrs. Sturmfuller
Lawrence Tierney	...	Owen Knopfler
William Newman	...	Virgil Cuts

Alternativ:

Cycle of the Werewolf (USA) (working title)
Stephen King's Silver Bullet (USA) (complete title)
Werwolf von Tarker Mills, Der (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) [de]

Länge:

95 Min

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe (Technicolor)

Seitenverhältnis:

2.35 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Stereo

Altersfreigabe:

Iceland:16 | Singapore:PG (cut) | Netherlands:16 | Australia:R | Finland:K-18 | France:-12 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:R | West Germany:18 | Norway:18 (video premiere) (1987) | Norway:(Banned) (1987-2003) (cinema release)

Drehorte:

Burgaw, North Carolina, USA

Firma:

Dino De Laurentiis Company

Dies und das:

Don Coscarelli was scheduled to direct but left over creative differences with 'Dino De Laurentiis' .

Pannen:

Filmfehler: Marty is in the park flying kites with his friend Brady and is up on a tree limb getting a kite down. Janie helps him down from the tree limb and we see that the limb he is on is too high for him to reach from his chair.

Dialogzitate:

Jane Coslaw: You always take his side because he's crippled. Well, it's not my fault he's crippled!
Nan Coslaw: You just stop it right now or I'm gonna smack you.

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Verweist auf/spielt an auf/erwähnt Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

Soundtrack:

All Dressed Up With Nowhere To Go

Brady's Dad

The actor who played Herb Kincaid (father of the shredded Brady) was phenomenal - I don't understand why no one has commented on this. When he was talking to the local yokels and the sheriff in Owens Bar after Brady's funeral, his voice, the depth of emotion in his eyes - so filled with pain, anger and loss that I almost actually believed that he had lost his son to a brutal killer. He captured the part of a bereaved and inconsolable father as accurately as any actor could, especially the way he said "As for me, I think I'll go out and hunt up a little private justice." Such a small part but one that reflected what real acting is all about.

I think they should have explained how Marty became paralyzed - his Uncle Red hinted that Marty hadn't always been crippled when he said (I'm paraphrasing here), "Sometimes I think your brain must have gotten paralyzed along with your legs." It seems to indicate that Marty had suffered an accident that left him unable to walk and it made you wonder exactly what had happened.

I think the manufactured tension between Jane and Marty wasn't terribly credible either. Beside the usual sibling rivalry, there was really no reason that Jane should resent Marty so much and act like she hated him, saying "Marty was the cross I had to bear." If anything, it seems like she would have been protective of him since he couldn't get around on his own and shown a little understanding. It made her seem like a selfish little witch and she garnered no sympathy from me. I wish her mom had actually made good on her threat to "smack" her.

Like a number of people, I loved Uncle Red - he wasn't supposed to be perfect but he sure loved his niece and nephew. He's the type of guy I'd want to watch my back in a crisis - drinker or not, he was always there for them.

I'm sure we all know a sneering, arrogant little jerk like Andy Fairton (who somehow always got otherwise rational people to listen to him and follow him). I could see this character in a western saying "Let's string him up boys" before he even knew whether or not the person was guilty. I wish the werewolf had a bitten a sizable chunk out of his know-it-all ass.

His mean-spirited comments were pretty funny though:

When the sheriff said "We'll catch him." Andy said "You couldn't catch a cold." "This whole investigation is as f***ked up as a submarine with screen doors."

The sheriff was totally incompetent though. Why would he go to Rev. Lowe's house at night alone when he wanted to question him about murder and not have any back up. Instead of blasting the reverend when he started walking toward him in a menacing fashion, the sheriff stared backing up in fear and only pulled his gun at the last minute.