It was also a golden age of werewolf movies.

The 1980s was not only the golden age of slashers. So, why did it skip under the radar? Well, think of the time it was released. But, hey, Roger Ebert gave it three stars out of four in his review. Was it not well received by critics? Well, yes and no. While the movie doesn’t work as a whodunnit film, as you can tell who the lycanthrope is pretty fast, it is still a good werewolf film and works well as a Stephen King adaptation.ĭid it fail at the box office? No. The movie has a powerhouse of performances from veteran actors like Everett McGill and Gary Busey, who not only ad-libbed his role but did all of his stunts. The production disputes didn’t hurt the picture. Fun thing, viewers can easily tell the scenes shot by Cascarelli. After shooting all the non-werewolf scenes, Cascarelli opted out of the movie and was replaced with Daniel Attias, who would finish the film with Rambaldi’s werewolf. While the movie mogul and the master of horror were fighting over the design, Cascarelli decided to shoot all the non-werewolf scenes. And here the first production problem occurred.ĭe Laurentis disliked Rambaldi’s design, which King approved. Carlo Rambaldi, who helped to create monsters in Ridley Scott’s “Alien” and Andrzej Żuławski’s “Possession”, was responsible for creating the werewolf.

Stephen King penned the screenplay, and Don Cascarelli of “Phantasm” fame was brought to direct the adaptation under the title “Silver Bullet”. In 1985, Dino De Laurentis came up with the idea of adapting “Cycle of the Werewolf”. The novel consists of twelve chapters, representing the twelve months of the year. Instead of dealing with what it’s like to be a werewolf, King is focused on how a small town will react if a lycanthrope starts killing people one by one. In his 1983 novel “Cycle of the Werewolf”, Stephen King successfully deconstructs the werewolf subgenre. Although, some books and movies offered salvation via killing the lycanthrope that passed the curse.

Generally, there’s no way out of it, except death. The main character is bound to turn into a monster himself. Traditionally, movies about lycanthropy follow a person surviving an attack of the wolf, only to learn later that the canine was a werewolf. Silver Bullet (1985) Directed by Daniel Attias

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