Silver Bullet Is Unintentionally Stephen Kings Funniest Adaptation
If the 1985 horror movie “Silver Bullet,” inspired by Stephen King’s 1983 novella “Cycle of the Werewolf,” was primarily designed to frighten viewers, it falls short. But if we consider it as a comedy disguised as a horror film, “Silver Bullet” offers more chuckles than many successful standalone comedies from its time. Perhaps “Silver Bullet” was meant to be a playful take on the traditional Stephen King plot structure, where a community is tormented by an unimaginable terror. The movie is set in 1976 in the fictitious town of Tarker’s Mills, Maine, where, in the film’s initial scenes, several residents are gruesomely murdered by a creature with razor-sharp claws and teeth, under the influence of a full moon.