In the eighties of the last century it may have been a decade of weaker, but vampires and werewolves fans had a lot to enjoy -and the classic creatures had their greatest moment of the 30s and 40s of the last century of the universal films of monsters. Although the bloodshists only covered it in terms of quality and variety, there were some really good activities of licantrope around, especially Johnon Landis "American Werewolf in London" And OEO DANTE's "The Howling". Elsewhere, you had the poor Michael J football. Fox in "Teen Wolf;" The dark of the Neil Jordandan is a little Red Crvenka in "Wolves' Society;" And the man Wolf again joined with his old universal friends in the "monster squad". Something lost in the mixture was a "silver bullet", a nasty and underestimated story from Steven King's pen.

The author of Maine was almost everywhere in the mid-1980s. King fueled the novels, wrote scripts, directed films ("Maximum Exaggerated"), and appeared in front of the camera in lush clamps and bigger roles in films like "Creekshow". He even became so successful that he even turned out books under the pseudonym Richard Bachmann to see how he would go without all the glory. 1983 was probably Steven King's peak with the release of three film adaptations: "Kujo". "Dead Zone", and "Christine;" And the posting of three books: "Christine" (Johnon Carpenter was a fast worker), "Five Semar" and "Werewolf Cycle".

The latter is a slim illustrated volume that started as an idea for a calendar. Greek was that every month there would be a picture drawn by the artist with comics, Bernie Rightsson ("Wetland Work") and a little King vignette. The author was not satisfied with the size of the individual stories and decided to expand it to Novella, including Rightson's drawings. The "lash cycle" was not particularly successful, but King was so hot at that moment that he could sell film rights for his grocery list. He adjusted the script and the "Silver Bullet" was the result, with Dan Atias making the TV's "Miami Vice" jump to use his only feature film to this day. However, it could have been very different; Atias replaced Don Bone, the man who brought us The Fantasma franchise and the "beer". His experience may have helped, but let's take a look at what we got instead-film that now airs free on ad-based platforms, such as Pluto TV and Huppa.

The "Silver Shull" is placed in the fictional city of Tarker Mill, a typical Kings Rural Rear Water in Maine. Following the unnecessary voice of Janeain Koslav (Megan follows) the explanation that the story is set in the mid-1970s, the film descends directly to the Werewolves action, as a drunken railway worker was attacked by the light of a full moon and a pregnant woman is also rescued by the creature. After setting the stage, Janeeine disappears for much of the film and our focus shifts to her younger brother Marty (Corey Haim), a para-11-year-old who enjoys the bombardment of his wheelchair. He also loves his uncle Red (Gary Busi), an irresponsible alcoholic who is the only adult to treat Marty as a normal child.

More unresolved killings send the city city into anger, and anger reaches a boiling point after Marty's best friend is torn into pieces. Local Sheriff Oeo Haller (Terry O'Kuin) is struggling to keep control because local men form a position to seek "private justice", going out at night to lynch the killer. The watchful suffering of predictably dense fate, and Marty begins to believe that the werewolf is responsible, confirmed when he escapes a shootout with the creature. Together a child manages to firing one of his eyes with fireworks and suspicion falls on Revera Lowe (Everett McGill), the local preacher who suffered a similar smooth injury.

"Silver Shull" puts a horror torque on the classic children's adventure in the 80s, where adults do not trust children and reduces our young heroes to solve the mystery. The big twist here is that the usual BMX and Seimiri are excluded for a sincere amazing way of transport when the uncle red upgrades Marty to a wheelchair soup/hybrid motorcycle, with a nickname silver bullet. It is pretty nonsense, but the film is kept by the cast, especially with the winning dynamics between Marty and Uncle Red. Haim offers the same brand on a cute cheek that will show vampires again a few years later in the "lost boys", and Busi is out of graph as a pleasant uncle. The actor is always a greater presence than life and obviously enjoyed advertising most of his ranks. Fortunately, King and Atias went with their makeshift, giving the character really lived and chaotic quality.

The "silver bullet" has not been discolored for violent violence from the beginning, as we get beheading, fog and dirt in the first 25 minutes. But as the killings have fun, the film falls when it comes to displaying the creature. This is perhaps the biggest difference between vampire and werewolves; You do not need much more than a guy with funky and a little frightening makeup to have a daunting vampire story, but every movie that focuses on licantropy lives and dies on his transformation scenes. Unfortunately, the footage of the money in the "silver bullet" is nowhere near as good as their equivalents in "American Werewolf in London" And "howl", and that failure must be attributed to Steven King.

The author reportedly wanted to reduce the design of the creature to a simpler, strange choice that is a serious loss of talent of SF wizard Carlo Rambaldi. Rambaldi had three Oscars under the belt before applying for a "silver bullet", taking up home awards for King Kong, Alien and Extra-Copiva. Unfortunately, the restrictions on him meant that his monster ended up more like a bearded bear than a supernatural shape. To make things worse, Dan Atias clearly didn't have much sense of uncertainty or fear, so we get a few nasty moments, but there is no real scares such as quarreling from one scene to another.

Everything he said, a "silver bullet" complements its effects on the creature and lack of tension with some moments of "only in the 80's. The film has a cheerful Hokey B-Movie Energy, and you have incredible spectacles like Corey Haim exceeding the car in his warm wheelchair and a werewolf that has a baseball bat. It is the only example I can remind myself in the history of horror, where licantrop uses sports equipment as a weapon of choice, and how it appears is the reason why Roger Ebert has mistaken him for a parody of Steven King. Overall, the "lantern cycle" is one of the smaller records in Steven King's bibliography, and a "silver bullet" is fun, but similarly easy. It's not there with real great Werewolf movies from the decade, but it's definitely worth checking for the fans of the 80s horror, and you can do it for free now on ad platforms such as Pluto TV and Huppa.