Stars: Gary Busey, Corey Haim, Everett McGill, Megan Follows, Robin Groves, Terry O'Quinn, Leon Russom, Lawrence Tierney, Bill Smitrovich, David Hart

Director: Daniel Attias

Summary: Strange things are happening in a small American town... Appalling carnage in the witching hours of darkness. Nobody knows why, until a young crippled boy discovers the blood-chilling truth...

Based on Stephen King's novella CYCLE OF THE WEREWOLF, SILVER BULLET concerns a small mountain community terrorized by a half-man/ half-beast of folklore. Young, wheelchair-bound Marty Coslaw (Corey Haim), after an encounter with the murderous lycanthrope, becomes saddled with the unfortunate knowledge of the beast's human alter ego. With some help from his sister (Megan Follows), his good hearted alcoholic uncle (Gary Busey), and his turbo-charged wheelchair, he sets out to rid the town of the murderous scourge. King also wrote the screenplay.

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Silver Bulletis a generic, by-the-numbers Stephen King film with a Stephen King screenplay adapted from an earlier novella. Back in the innocent days of 1976--the age of innocence gets later every year--the town of Tarker's Fall finds itself in the grip of mass hysteria when something starts tearing people apart. Only a crippled child Martie (Corey Haim) works out the truth, which is that the new pastor is a werewolf. Eventually he manages to convince his supercilious sister Janey and his unreliable drunk Uncle Red (Gary Busey) and there is the usual confrontation involving a silver bullet melted down from the children's religious jewellery; the title also refers to the boy's motorised wheelchair. The film neglects interesting possibilities--the lynch-mob mentality that takes over the town fizzles after the major vigilantes are killed, the pastor tries to justify the killings to himself--in favour of stock ultra-violent confrontations and extended metamorphoses; its major strength is a familiar King theme, the helplessness of being a child in a world full of people who will not listen to you.

On the DVD:The DVD comes with a director's commentary by Daniel Attias and dubbed versions in German, French and Italian. The soundtrack has Dolby sound which brings out the stylised fairy-tale elements in the score and the widescreen picture is presented in 2.35:1 anamorphic ratio. The sometimes muddy-looking night-scenes are balanced by brisk pastoral daylight scenes that have their own innocence. --Roz Kaveney

Aspect Ratio:	2.35 Wide Screen, 16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Trailer, Scene Selections, Audio Commentary By Director Daniel Attias
Subtitles:	Dutch, English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish
Year:	1985
Release Date:	October 22, 2001
Runtime:	90 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	M P 116 D
Keywords:	Bullet, General, Wide, Screen, Silver, Horror, Occult, Sci, Fi
Genre:	Horror/Occult