Silver Bullet

Grossly ignored, for good reason, when it was released in 1985, this is perhaps one of the best "sleeper" of the Stephen King based films and for many, many reasons. For starters, it maked the directorial debut of Daniel Attias. Don't recognize the name? I'm not surprised but if you've watched any of the cool shows on television in the last 20 years you've seen his work, from ALIAS to BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER to THE SOPRANOS to SIX FEET UNDER....this guy has been in there....delivering some key episodes to boot. With SILVER BULLET you don't get any glaring indication of where his future was headed and like many of the big studio productions of the period it is firmly rooted in it's time frame, right down to having one of the "Coreys" in it, in this case Haim who does his job so no complaints there. As a matter of fact, what makes SILVER BULLET so special now is the cast, from Gary Busey playing the old drunken Uncle, Terry O'Quinn (with hair which just weirds me out these days) as the local Sheriff to Everett McGill as the Reverend. Hold on a second......EVERETT McGILL as a man of the cloth....sorry folks of Tarker's Mills.....you're fucked! This is the other element of SILVER BULLET which is so great and ful props have to be given to the head of casting Jeremy Ritzer. The assortment of faces and such here make it very much like TWIN PEAKS and because of this the film, despite it's look, has aged well. So much so they could lift the King screenplay as it is and remake it right now without a problem. Well worth another look, even if just for old time's sake, providing you can find it.