Silver Bullet

Silver Bullet

Credits
Title:	Silver Bullet
Director:	Daniel Attias
Writers:	Stephen King
Producers:	Dino De Laurentiis; Martha Schumacher
Composer:	Jay Chattaway
Cinematography:	Armando Nannuzzi
Editors:	Daniel Loewenthal
Production
Distributed by:	Dino De Laurentiis Company
Released:	October 11th, 1985
Rating:	R
Running time:	95 min.
Country:	USA
Language:	English
Budget:	$7,000,000
Gross:	$5,400,000
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Silver Bullet is an American horror film of the werewolf subgenre. It is based on the 1983 novella Cycle of the Werewolf by famed horror author Stephen King. The film was directed by Daniel Attias and written by King. It was produced by Famous Films and the Dino De Laurentiis Company and released theatrically on October 11th, 1985. The movie stars Corey Haim, Gary Busey, Megan Follows and Everett McGill and centers on the life of a crippled young boy named Marty Coslaw who is tormented by a werewolf in the fictional town of Tarker's Mill, Maine.

Cast[]

Actor	Role
Gary Busey	Uncle Red
Everett McGill	Reverend Lowe
Corey Haim	Marty Coslaw
Megan Follows	Jane Coslaw
Robin Groves	Nan Coslaw
Leon Russom	Bob Coslaw
Terry O'Quinn	Sheriff Joe Haller
Bill Smitrovich	Andy Fairton
Joe Wright	Brady Kincaid
Kent Broadhurst	Herb Kincaid
Heather Simmons	Tammy Sturmfuller
James A. Baffico	Milt Sturmfuller
Rebecca Fleming	Mrs. Sturmfuller
Lawrence Tierney	Owen Knopfler
William Newman	Virgil Cuts
Sam Stoneburner	Mayor O'Banion
Lonnie Moore	Billy McLaren
Rick Pasotto	Aspinall
Cassidy Eckert	Girl
Wendy Walker	Stella Randolph
Michael Lague	Stella's boyfriend
Myra Mailoux	Stella's mother
William Brown	Bobby Robertson
Herb Harton	Elmer Zinnerman
David Hart	Pete Sylvester
Graham Smith	Porter Zinnerman
Paul Butler	Edgar Rounds
Crystal Field	Maggie Andrews
Julius LeFlore	Smokey
Roxanne Aalam	Uncle Red's girl
Pearl Jones	Mrs. Thayer
Ish Jones, Jr.	Mister Thayer
Steven White	Outfielder
Conrad McLaren	Mac
Tovah Feldshuh	Older Jane (voice)
James Gammon	Arnie Westrum

Notes & Trivia[]

The film is alternatively known as Stephen King's Silver Bullet.
The tagline for this film is, "Whenever the moon is full... it comes back!"
The Silver Bullet: Original Motion Piture Soundtrack was released by Varese Sarabande in 1985 featuring the film score composed by Jay Chattaway.
This movie marks the directorial debut of Daniel Attias. Dan will go on to direct episodes of several genre-related television programs including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, True Blood and The Walking Dead.
This is the first horror film work for actor Corey Haim, who was only thirteen-years-old when production began on the movie. Haim will go on to play Sam Emerson in the 1987 vampire film The Lost Boys as well as a character named Travis in 1988's Watchers and Albert in 1996's ever Lake.
Actress Megan Follows will revisit her werewolf roots in 1999 when she appears in the "Interview with a Werewolf" episode of the TV series Big Wolf on Campus as Violet Thorne.
Actor Everett McGill has also appeared other projects involving lycanthropy. He played Sweet Jake Williams in the "Blood on the Tracks" episode of the short-lived Werewolf television series. He also played the unidentified male antagonist in Wes Craven's The People Under the Stairs in 1991.
Actor Gary Busey has also appeared in such horror films as Predator 2 and Gingerdead Man.
Marty Coslaw is 11-years-old in the year 1976 while Jane is 15-years-old.
Actress Tovah Feldshuh, who provides the voice of older Jane Coslaw in the framing sequence, will go on to play the role of Deanna Monroe on episodes of AMC's The Walking Dead.
This is Laura Warner's third film role, and her third movie based on a Stephen King project. She previously played several uncredited minor roles in Cat's Eye in 1985, as well as a girl in a country store in Firestarter in 1984.
Although the events of this film take place in the year 1976, a newspaper article has a date from the 1980s.

Production[]

Production on Silver Bullet began in October of 1984. Principal photography concluded in December, 1984.
The movie was shot entirely in Wilmington, North Carolina. This could explain why so many of the cast members have southern accents even though the fictional town of Tarker's Mills is supposed to be located in Maine.

Home Video[]

The Widescreen Collection edition of Silver Bullet was released by Paramount Home Video on May 28th, 2002.
Silver Bullet is included on the "When Animals Strike Back: Volume Two" DVD set along with Graveyard Shift and Pet Sematary.

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