A customized, souped-up, hot rod wheelchair named the Silver Bullet (it kills werewolves-get it?). Marty therefore doesn't need a motorized wheelchair, but the movie goes for some sick jokes as the kid pulls into a gas station to fill his tank.Īnd then Uncle Red ( Gary Busey) gives the kid a great present. As the werewolf continues his raids, the story centers around the typical family, and especially around the crippled kid, little Marty, whose legs are paralyzed but who is able to use his arms to climb trees and sneak out of the house at night. Who is the werewolf? I was able to guess almost the moment he walks onscreen. Worst of all, when the full moon shines, a werewolf breaks into people's homes and rips them to shreds. One of the kids in the family is in a motorized wheelchair. We meet a local family (named the "Coslaws"-a nice touch, expecially if the Potato Salads live next door). A decapitated body is found down by the tracks. The town's social life centers around the bar, where mean drunks sit around looking hostile. A narrator talks about how quiet and sleepy things used to be-and then, after a few shots of Main Street, we see what really goes on. The movie takes place in 1976, in one of King's patented little American towns.
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