The film takes place in Tarker’s Mills in 1976. The book and movie both use a paraplegic 11-year-old boy as the hero who is accompanied by his sister and uncle. Silver Bullet takes place over several months and seemingly gives us a werewolf who can change when he wants but is forced to on the full moon. The book takes place over the course of a year and tracks the werewolf during every full moon. The movie and book share a similar story but each does things a little differently. Silver Bullet and “Cycle of the Werewolf” I tracked it down to rewatch it for the first time in over two decades. It wasn’t until I read “Cycle of the Werewolf” that I realized the movie was based on a Stephen King novel, which led me to find the movie, and now I know it’s called Silver Bullet. As I grew up, I had no idea what the film was actually called and basically forgot about it. It terrified six-year-old me and helped introduce me to horror films. It was missing roughly the first five to ten minutes, but I loved it. Growing up, I distinctly remember distinctly having a werewolf movie on VHS that someone had recorded on TV.
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