Silver Bullet (film)


Silver Bullet is a 1985 horror film based on the Stephen King novella Cycle of the Werewolf. It stars Gary Busey, Everett McGill, Megan Follows, Corey Haim, Terry OQuinn, Lawrence Tierney, Bill Smitrovich, Kent Broadhurst, David Hart, and James Gammon. The film is directed by Dan Attias and produced by Dino De Laurentiis.

First, a railroad worker, Arnie Westrum Gammon, is decapitated by a werewolf after noticing its tracks. The county coroner believes that Arnie passed out on the railroad tracks and was run over by a train. Soon after, a local woman, Stella Randolph Wendy Walker, prepares to commit suicide because she is unmarried and pregnant. Before she can act, she is murdered. This murder goes unsolved and the townsfolk become worried. The next victim, a redneck named Milt Sturmfuller James A. Baffico, whose daughter is Martys girlfriend, hears a racket in his shed. Believing teenagers are making mischief, Sturmfuller plans to scare them off with a shotgun. Instead, he encounters the werewolf and is killed. His family leaves town. Next to die is teenager Brady Kincaid Joe Wright, Martys troublemaking best friend, who stayed out too late one night while flying a kite.After Bradys death, citizens led by local gun shop owner Andy Fairton Smitrovich form a vigilante justice group. Although local Sheriff Joe Haller OQuinn and his lone deputy Hart attempt to stop the citizens, the officers relent after being berated by Bradys father Broadhurst. In the middle of the melee, Baptist Reverend Lester Lowe McGill attempts to prevent the townsfolk from causing further bloodshed. After the vigilantes go out hunting for the killer, several are attacked and killed, including bartender Owen Knopfler Tierney. The survivors later deny seeing anything unusual. After the vigilantes are attacked, Reverend Lowe dreams that he is presiding over a mass funeral when his congregationincluding the bodies in the casketsbegins to transform into werewolves before his eyes and attack him. He awakens screaming and asks God to let it end. ........

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