BEFORE: Day 3 of New York Comic-Con, and I made it through the whole day, I even got a little time to walk around and see the booths - but there was nothing I wanted to buy, which is good news for my bank account. Maybe I'm jaded, maybe I've gone to too many comic-cons, but after a while it all just starts to look like the same stuff over and over.
Someone who stopped at our booth did tell me a good Corey Feldman story, so it's a little odd that tonight's film stars his late friend Corey Haim. Which reminds me, I should probably add "The Lost Boys" to my list and get around to watching that one of these days. This is also the 2nd movie based on a Stephen King story, with 9 more to follow later in the month. Note: I don't condone the practice of "name above the title", some might refer to this as "Stephen King's Silver Bullet", but I don't consider the author's name to be PART of the title - not for King, not for Walt Disney, and certainly not for Tyler-effin' Perry.
THE PLOT: A werewolf terrorizes a small town where lives Marty, a paralytic boy, his uncle and his sister.
AFTER: A rather basic werewolf film, with the best acting coming from Gary Busey (last seen in "Predator 2") as the drunk uncle (drunkle?) who doesn't want to believe in werewolves at first. It's funny how quick some people in these movies are to suggest werewolves as the cause of the strange mutilations in town - you'd think that regular wolves, or even "escaped tiger from the circus" would be a more logical conclusion.
But once you've settled on "werewolf" - how to determine which one of the town's citizens is the actual lycanthrope? There are a lot of creepy people in town, so that's no help... Is it the one who never shows up for the posse to track down the werewolf? Or the single most ironic person in town that it could be? Hmmm....
Does the title refer to the common werewolf-killing ammunition, or the main character's motorized wheelchair? Or both? Either way, that thing's not street-legal.
Also starring Terry O'Quinn (last seen in "Young Guns", but most famous for "Lost"), Everett McGill (last seen in "My Fellow Americans", but most famous for "Twin Peaks"), Bill Smitrovich (last seen in "Flash of Genius"), and Lawrence Tierney (last seen in "Prizzi's Honor"), plus a quick cameo from James Gammon (last seen in "Ironweed").
RATING: 5 out of 10 fireworks
SPOOK-O-METER: 6 out of 10. The werewolf's not on camera for very long, but the scenes where he's hunting the townspeople are pretty disturbing.
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