Review – Silver Bullet

With the combination of Stephen King and werewolves, I guess I should have liked this one a lot better than I did. The plot is based on King’s “Cycle of the Werewolf,” though in my opinion the book was better than the movie. For openers, the plot in the book stretched out over a year and just generally flowed a lot better than its big-screen adaptation. Further, King’s text was accompanied by illustrations by Bernie Wrightson, an outstanding illustrator who drew werewolves the way I’d always imagined werewolves should look. The effects in the movie compare unfavorably, making the lycanthropes look more like skinny bears. Still, I don’t imagine King can gripe much about the film adaptation, inasmuch as he wrote the screenplay himself. I’ve seen plenty of werewolf movies that were a lot worse than this one. But I’ve seen a couple of better ones, too. Mildly amusing