Silver Bullet (1985), Graveyard Shift (1990)

Silver Bullet is a lesser Stephen King adaptation based on his novella Cycle of the Werewolf. It's set in a small Maine town in the 1970's and is about a sister (Megan Follows), her brother (the late Corey Haim) who rides a supped up wheelchair dubbed 'The Silver Bullet', and their drunkard black sheep uncle (perfectly cast as Gary Busey) who must stop a particularly prolific werewolf who is slowly decimating their town. Kind of an odd film, its B-movie like, fairly violent, rated R and featuring teenagers as the leads (real teenagers, not 20 something pretending to be teenagers), so I'm not sure who the target audience is supposed to be. Also staring Everett McGill and Terry O'Quinn. **

Graveyard Shift is a bottom of the barrel Stephen King flick based on one of his earliest published short stories. In short Graveyard Shift is about a rotting, rat infested old textile mill in Maine which is not only run on the extreme cheap but has a carnivorous monster living beneath it. The movie is not good, its pretty slow, boring, and has some of Stephen Kings least interesting, least complex, and most annoying characters. It also doesn't seem to have a point beyond pure horror, and it's horror is not well executed. I feel like the people who made this film managed it about as well as the characters managed the textile mill. To me the most interesting thing about this movie is that the lead David Andrews looks a lot like a former boss of mine, one who could have run that mill a whole lot better. *