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Thursday, November 16, 2017

Episode 5: Cycle of the Werewolf Scares Us

Katya loves loves loves to make fun of Silver Bullet, the movie based on Stephen King's novelette (lovable little word, that) Cycle of the Werewolf which we discussed in Episode 5 (click here to listen), but I love it. It reminds me very strongly of my childhood; also, the little towns of Burgaw and Wilmington, North Carolina, where it was shot are very much like the tiny Eastern Montana town where I grew up in the 1980s.

Okay, so the werewolf looks like a bear.  Or sometimes kinda rubbery.  But I love him, darn it!  (Stephen King referred to him as "ol' shaggy" in the copy of CotW he signed for me when I was 8; be jealous, be very, very jealous.)  And no lying, this movie terrified the piss out of me when I was a kid; the scene where the werewolf rips poor Stella Randolph to shreds sent me out of the room every time, for years.

At any rate, I've read several reviews that describe it as an 80s "classic," so I suppose it's earning its keep; as America continues to enjoy 80s nostalgia in the form of shows like Stranger Things and a kind of Stephen King renaissance (check out Gerald's Game on Netflix, once thought to be un-filmable), perhaps more of you kitty-cats will come to appreciate the lovableness of ol' shaggy and the rest of the company of Tarker's Mills, Maine (though it sounds an awful lot like Tarker's Mills, North Carolina).

Here are a few Silver Bullet images I scoured from the internet. Enjoy.


The first edition, from Land of Enchantment Press.  Boy, I'd love to get my paws on one of those.  (Plus that picture, THAT PICTURE ...)


British edition.




Run, Megan Fellowes, run!


Laser disc!


Stick with playing Buddy Holly, Gary Busey.  You're safer that way.



Ack!  Werewolf baby!


I think that werewolf on the cover sprang fully formed from The Howling.


Poor Stella.



   And here I am with the signed copy of Silver Bullet and Cycle of the Werewolf Stephen King sent to me one winter day in 1987. 

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