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Silver Bullet
The small city of Tarker's Mills is startled by a series of sadistic murders. The population fears the work of a maniac, but sightings of a mysterious, hairy creature soon spread. People lock themselves up at night, but there's one boy who's still outside…
1985 · Directed by Dan Attias · 95 min · Horror · Screenplay in the scene database · 14 frames
Tagline
It started in May. In a small town. And every month after that whenever the moon was full...It came back.
Plot
The rocky relationship between Jane Coslaw and her paraplegic younger brother, Marty, changes after a series of murders begin in their small rural town of Tarker's Mills, Maine, in the spring of 1976.
Railroad worker Arnie Westrum is decapitated by an unseen attacker. Pregnant Stella Randolph, preparing to kill herself, is brutally murdered in her bedroom along with her unborn baby. An abusive father, Milt Sturmfuller, is killed in his greenhouse, and Marty's best friend, Brady Kincaid, is also slain. Following Brady's death, the townspeople form a vigilante group. Despite Sheriff Joe Haller's attempts to stop them, he relents after Brady's father, Herb, angrily confronts him. Reverend Lester Lowe tries, but fails, to prevent the townsfolk from causing more bloodshed.
While the vigilantes hunt for the killer in the nearby woods, three of them are attacked and killed. The survivors — particularly Andy Fairton — later deny seeing anything unusual. Afterwards, Reverend Lowe dreams he is presiding over a mass funeral, only for the congregation — including the bodies in the caskets — to transform into werewolves and attack him. He wakes up screaming and pleads with God to "let it end."
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Crew
- Screenplay: Stephen King
- Cinematography: Armando Nannuzzi
- Edited by: Daniel Loewenthal, Tommy Dorsett
- Music: Jay Chattaway
- Production design: Giorgio Postiglione
- Produced by: Martha De Laurentiis, Dino De Laurentiis
Cast
- Gary Busey as Uncle Red
- Everett McGill as Reverend Lowe
- Tovah Feldshuh as Older Jane (voice)
- Megan Follows as Jane Coslaw
- Corey Haim as Marty Coslaw
- Terry O'Quinn as Sheriff Joe Haller
- Robin Groves as Nan Coslaw
- Leon Russom as Bob Coslaw
- Bill Smitrovich as Andy Fairton
- Joe Wright as Brady Kincaid
Production
- Country: Italy, Netherlands, United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: International Film Corporation (II), Famous Films Productions, Paramount Pictures, DDL Cinematografica
- Budget: $7,000,000
- Box office: $12,400,000
- Themes: based on novel or book, halloween, maine, werewolf
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