Silver Bullet’s prosthetic work and man-in-a-suit design by Carlo Rambaldi originally caused some feuding behind the scenes, as producer Dino De Laurentis held up the production of the werewolf’s scenes demanding a redesign. The film overall is a pretty low-budget affair, but one clearly committed to with love for the material and werewolves in general- I’ve gone to bat for werewolf stories before, and so I’m likely biased in favor of this film’s effort on display. Yes, this werewolf uses tools in his attacks. But that mob justice is short-lived as the moon rises, the man becomes beast, and the hunters become the hunted, killed with their own weaponry. That one of them is in fact the werewolf himself only makes the scene where the mob enacts its version of justice all the more self-serving on a rewatch. It’s a real treat to watch a town that’s practically Bedford Falls turn into a mob of frightened and angry and on the warpath, futilely pushed back by the only voices of reason in the town: the sheriff, played with pitch perfect folksy charm by Terry O’Quinn ( The Stepfather, LOST) and the town reverend, played with frantic concern by Everett McGill ( Twin Peaks’s Big Ed Hurley, The People Under the Stairs). The bodies continue piling up, torn apart, chewed and beaten by the feral hunter among them. Meanwhile, the lycan carnage continues as the townspeople turn from paranoid to furious. Marty seeks to find out who the werewolf is, in order to protect his town and himself.

It’s not until a woman Marty's sister, Jane, spies arguing over an illegitimate pregnancy is found torn apart in her own bedroom that the town becomes aware of the monstrous killer in their midst.įrom here, Silver Bullet becomes a game of cat and mouse, or wolf and schoolboy in this case. But, since he was a drunk, and he was found lying across the tracks without his head, it’s ruled an accident. A man-in-a-suit werewolf came up on him in the midnight fog and swiped his face off.

And then the town rail worker is found by the tracks, decapitated.

Cycle of the werewolf movie