History Film / SilverBullet

* AdaptationInducedPlothole: In this movie, the werewolf actually goes in the wood too confront the hunters when they go looking for him, when he could have easily avoided them, seeing how he knew they were going to go look for him. In the original book, he instead leaves the town for the night so he will be out of their reach when he transforms.

** In addition, the film scores points for tackling head-on the difficulties in making bullets out of silver, instead of someone simply getting silver bullets and going to work. When Red takes the silver to the gunsmith, he says that his nephew just discovered the Lone Ranger and wants to make him silver bullets as a gift. The gunsmith directly states that silver isn't a good choice for making bullets. When the bullets are done and Red picks them up, the gunsmith has a few lines where he states that he crafted the bullet carefully and compensated for using silver by giving the bullet a lower powder load than would be used for a lead bullet, making it more accurate. The gunsmith also pretty directly implies he knows exactly what Red is up to.

* StupidEvil: Justified. Initially the wolf is smart enough to kill without drawing to much attention but, as the full moon draws near, he becomes more savage and his victims more numerous. A drunk dying by the railway doesn't draw suspicion. However mauling a woman and a child to death sparks a mass manhunt for the killer. [[spoiler: An act which leads Lowe to wittingly murder four more people and brings himself even closer to being caught.]]

* DeathByPragmatism: [[spoiler: Once the sheriff has no more leads, he decides to take a look at the reverent's place due to Red's earlier insistence. Once he actually finds some damning evidence, he is of course discovered by Lowe. Who then promptly transforms and bludgeons him to death.]]

** The werewolf also targets a very specific woman in her own home and breaks in to murder her there, which is uncharacteristic of most werewolves who in both mythology and other works of modern fiction keep to themselves for the most and only attack those who enter into their territory.

* ComedicSociopathy: Mr. Knopfler is attacked and dragged beneath the mist by the werewolf, and he makes a last-ditch effort to drive it off with his [[BatterUp baseball bat]]. We see a human hand rising out the mist and hitting with the bat twice, there is a beat, and then we see the werewolf's hand holding the bat and striking its victim instead.

A small town is ravaged by a series of brutal killings. Marty (Corey Haim), a young boy in a wheelchair, suspects that a werewolf is to blame and is proven right when it tries to attack him. He now has to find out its human identity and a way to deal with it with his older sister and a drunk uncle (Creator/GaryBusey).

Small town is ravaged by a series of brutal killings. Marty (Corey Haim), a young boy on a wheelchair, suspects that a werewolf is to blame and is proven right when it tries to attack him. He now has to find out its human identity and a way to deal with it with his older sister and a drunk uncle (Creator/GaryBusey).

* Title drop: Marty's SuperWheelchair

* SuperWheelchair: Marty's uncle Red rigs up a wheelchair/motorcycle combo for his nephew as a gift.

* DrivenToSuicide: Stella is about to commit suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills when she is attacked and killed by the werewolf.

A 1985 film adaptation of Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/CycleOfTheWerewolf'', starring Corey Haim and Gary Busey.

Small town is ravaged by a series of brutal killings. Marty, a young boy on a wheelchair, suspects that a werewolf is to blame and is proven right when it tries to attack him. He now has to find out its human identity and a way to deal with it with his older sister and a drunk uncle.

* TorchesAndPitchforks: After one death too many the town gathers an angry mob to go on a WitchHunt into the woods to find the killer. The search is poorly organised and at one point one townsman steps on bear trap. [[FromBadToWorse Then]] the werewolf shows up to start killing people.

* DeathByPragmatism: [[spoiler: Once the sheriff has no more leads, he decides to take a look at the reverent's place due to Red's earlier insistence. Once he actually finds some damning evidence, he is of course discovered by Lowe. He promptly transforms and bludgeons him to death.]]

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The werewolf becomes more violent the closer the full moon draws near and is strongly implied to be unable to control the urge to kill. The killer offers up a flimsy excuse but it comes across as more a lie he's telling himself to justify the fact he can't stop murdering people.

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The werewolf becomes more violent the closer the full moon draws near and is strongly implied to be unable to control the urge to kill.

* EpicFail: The angry mob goes into the woods to drive out the killer. They don't suspect he's among their number, which is a real possibility, and no-one knows the killer is actually a werewolf. All it accomplishes is adding four more victims to bury.

* BearTrap: Whe the posse searches the forest, one guy accidentally steps on to a bear trap.

** Jane also believes him for reasons she can't quite explain, despite how crazy it sounds, and begins helping him track down anyone with an eye injury matching the one inflicted on the werewolf with a firework.

* CassandraTruth: Averted. Marty insists through his uncle that the sheriff should question [[spoiler:Reverend Lowe]] after learning that he started wearing an [[EyepatchOfPower eye patch]] [[RevealingInjury after he hit the werewolf in the eye]]. After realizing that he doesn't have any other leads, he decides to take the advice. [[spoiler:Of course, he's killed for his trouble anyway.]]

* InfantImmortality: Averted. The werewolf mauls [[spoiler: Brady to death]] and kills pregnant woman too. No-one is safe.

* {{Lunacy}}: When Mary first start suspecting that a werewolf is behind the killings, Red just says its probably a psycho, since "full moon drives them crazy". Once they believe it's an actual werewolf they suspect the closer the full moon is, the more vicious it becomes.

* StupidEvil: Justified. Initially the wolf is smart enough to kill without drawing to much attention but as the full moon draws near, he becomes more savage and his victims more numerous. A drunk dying by the railway doesn't draw suspicion. However mauling a woman and a child to death sparks a mass manhunt for the killer. [[spoiler: An act which leads Lowe to wittingly murder four more people and brings himself even closer to being caught.]]

* TerrifyingPetStoreRat: A rodent startles Marty's sister into falling over and knocking down a stack of cans. Her reaction seems a bit extreme, considering it's a ''gerbil''.

* {{Lunacy}}: When Mary first start suspecting that a werewolf is behind the killings, Red just says its probably a psycho, since "full moon drives them crazy".

* ShamingTheMob: When the posse is organizing itself, Sheriff Haller tries talk them out of it. He is in turn shamed by Brady's dad, who's fresh off from his son's funeral.

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