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* 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 organized and at one point a townsman steps on a bear trap, badly injuring himself. [[FromBadToWorse Then]] the werewolf shows up to start killing people.


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* 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 organized and at one point a townsman steps on a bear trap, badly injuring himself. [[FromBadToWorse Then]] the werewolf shows up to start killing people.
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* ChaseScene: One of the film's major set pieces is [[spoiler:an enraged Reverend Lowe, shortly after Marty takes out one of his eyes,]] chasing Marty in his car as Marty is driving around in his SuperWheelchair.
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* TitleDrop: Four times. Marty's motorized wheelchairs (both regular and [[SuperWheelchair the modified motorcycle Uncle Red builds for Marty]]) are nicknamed "the Silver Bullet" (the bike even gets it stenciled on the side), and on the film's climax as the plan to kill the werewolf gets put together, Marty explains to Uncle Red the folklore about silver bullets and Red asks a local gunsmith to make him a silver bullet.
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* RecruitTheMuggles: Almost every townsperson with a name or dialogue joins in a massive effort to hunt down the werewolf after the sheriff steps aside and confines their efforts following a ShamedByAMob speech. They accomplish little besides giving the werewolf a few more victims.
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* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: As Andy rants on about the failures of the cops, asking about what they pay their taxes for, another customer named Aspinall (apparently some kind of city Hall employee) quips that he didn't know Andy has been paying her taxes.

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* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: As Andy rants on about the failures of the cops, asking about what they pay their taxes for, another customer named Aspinall (apparently some kind of city Hall employee) quips that he didn't know that, after reading the last town report, he'd thought Andy has been wasn't paying her his taxes.
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* ChewingTheScenery: Kent Broadhurst as Herb Kincaid. [[spoiler: And Everett [=McGill=]as Reverend Lowe.]]

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* ChewingTheScenery: Kent Broadhurst as Herb Kincaid. [[spoiler: And Everett [=McGill=]as [=McGill=] as Reverend Lowe.]]
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A 1985 [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptation]] of Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/CycleOfTheWerewolf'', directed by Daniel Attias, produced by Creator/DinoDeLaurentiis, and starring Creator/CoreyHaim, Creator/MeganFollows, Creator/GaryBusey, Creator/EverettMcGill, Creator/TerryOQuinn, and Creator/LawrenceTierney.

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A 1985 [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptation]] of Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/CycleOfTheWerewolf'', directed by Daniel Attias, ''Literature/CycleOfTheWerewolf'', produced by Creator/DinoDeLaurentiis, directed by Daniel Attias, and starring Creator/CoreyHaim, Creator/MeganFollows, Creator/GaryBusey, Creator/EverettMcGill, Creator/TerryOQuinn, and Creator/LawrenceTierney.
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A 1985 film adaptation of Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/CycleOfTheWerewolf'', directed by Daniel Attias, produced by Creator/DinoDeLaurentiis, and starring Creator/CoreyHaim, Creator/MeganFollows, Creator/GaryBusey, Creator/EverettMcGill, Creator/TerryOQuinn, and Creator/LawrenceTierney.

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A 1985 [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptation adaptation]] of Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/CycleOfTheWerewolf'', directed by Daniel Attias, produced by Creator/DinoDeLaurentiis, and starring Creator/CoreyHaim, Creator/MeganFollows, Creator/GaryBusey, Creator/EverettMcGill, Creator/TerryOQuinn, and Creator/LawrenceTierney.
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A small town is ravaged by a series of brutal killings. Marty (Creator/CoreyHaim), 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 Jane (Creator/MeganFollows) and a drunk uncle (Creator/GaryBusey).

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A small Maine town is ravaged by a series of brutal killings. Marty (Creator/CoreyHaim), (Haim), a young boy in a wheelchair, suspects that a werewolf is to blame blame, and is proven right when it tries to attack him. He now has Now he's got to find out try and discover its human identity and a way to deal with it it, with the help of his older sister Jane (Creator/MeganFollows) (Follows) and a drunk their alcoholic uncle (Creator/GaryBusey).
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* AdultFear: Brady's dad comes into the local bar and asks, "Has anybody in here seen my son, Brady?"
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* ChristianityIsCatholic: Averted (like in the book). Reverend Lowe is a major character and a Baptist, but the town also has a catholic priest whose a minor character (he's the hunter with Virgil who steps into a bear trap) and Marty has a St. Christopher's Medal which is more associated with Catholicism.

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* ChristianityIsCatholic: Averted (like in the book). Reverend Lowe is a major character and a Baptist, but the town also has a catholic Catholic priest whose who's a minor character (he's the hunter with Virgil who steps into a bear trap) and Marty has a St. Christopher's Medal which is more associated with Catholicism.
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* WhamShot: When Jane is returning bottles for the bottle drive, she talks to [[spoiler:Reverend Lowe]], who's on his knees gardening with his back to her. [[spoiler:Then the camera cuts to his face -- and, complete with ScareChord, we see that he's sporting an eye-patch over the same eye that Marty damaged on the werewolf...]]

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* WhamShot: When Jane is returning collecting bottles for the bottle drive, she talks to [[spoiler:Reverend Lowe]], who's on his knees gardening with his back to her. [[spoiler:Then the camera cuts to his face -- and, complete with ScareChord, we see that he's sporting an eye-patch over the same eye that Marty damaged on the werewolf...]]
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A small town is ravaged by a series of brutal killings. Marty (Creator/CoreyHaim), 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).

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A small town is ravaged by a series of brutal killings. Marty (Creator/CoreyHaim), 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 Jane (Creator/MeganFollows) and a drunk uncle (Creator/GaryBusey).

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