Marty uses the Silver Bullet to go out in the middle of the night to a bridge where he lights the fireworks. Red gives Marty a custom-built wheelchair/motorcycle, which he nicknames the 'Silver Bullet,' as well as a pile of fireworks so he can have his own celebration. The Coslaws decide to have their own backyard party and invite their mother Nan's alcoholic brother, Red. He awakens screaming and asks God to 'let it end.'īecause of the mounting unsolved murders, curfews are put in place, canceling the town’s Fourth of July celebration. Afterwards, Reverend Lowe dreams that he is presiding over a mass funeral when his congregation – including the bodies in the caskets – begins to transform into werewolves before his eyes and attack him. The survivors – especially Andy Fairton – later deny seeing anything unusual. While the vigilantes hunt for the killer in the nearby woods, three are attacked and killed. Reverend Lester Lowe fails to dissuade the townsfolk from causing further bloodshed.

Although local Sheriff Joe Haller attempts to stop the citizens, he relents after Brady's father Herb berates him. After Brady's death, citizens form a vigilante justice group. Railroad worker Arnie Westrum is decapitated by an unseen attacker, pregnant Stella Randolph prepares to kill herself but is brutally murdered in her own bedroom, an abusive father Milt Sturmfuller is killed in his greenhouse, and Marty's best friend, Brady Kincaid, is also killed. The rocky relationship between Jane Coslaw, the film's narrator, and her paraplegic younger brother Marty changes after a series of murders in their small rural town of Tarker's Mills, Maine, starting in the spring of 1976. The film is directed by Dan Attias, written by King and produced by Martha De Laurentiis.

It stars Gary Busey, Everett McGill, and Corey Haim, with Megan Follows, Terry O'Quinn, Lawrence Tierney, Bill Smitrovich, Kent Broadhurst, David Hart, and James Gammon in supporting roles.

Silver Bullet is a 1985 American horror thriller film based on the 1983 Stephen King novella Cycle of the Werewolf. $12.4 million or $5.4 million (North America)

Cycle of the Werewolf by Stephen King