Silver Bullet with Steven C. Miller
Episode 260, Dec 04, 09:00 AM
Director Steven C. Miller (Werewolves, Silent Night, Mauraders) joins Vespe to discuss Stephen King's werewolf story Cycle of the Werewolf, with a particular focus on the adaptation Silver Bullet. King penned the screenplay for Silver Bullet and the end result is essentially his second pass at the story where he gets to center the plot on a main character a bit more than his novella, which famously started life as a series of monthly werewolf attacks in a calendar format. We break down why werewolves are such interesting cinematic threats, how the human element of Silver Bullet carries the weight left over by the crappy werewolf design, and give flowers to all the great character actors involved in the movie.
Silver Bullet focuses on young Marty Coslaw (Corey Haim), a boy in a wheelchair who is the first to figure out that the mysterious deaths in his small town are the work of a rogue werewolf. Based on a novella by King, illustrated by the late, great Bernie Wrightson, this '80s movie is one that holds up more than a lot of its contemporaries.