Silver Bullet (4 Stars)

I like this film a lot. It's one of the Dino De Laurentiis films I've decided to watch in his memory, although I admit that I'd forgotten it was one of his films. Nobody remembers the producer, right? I remember this film most for the performance of Corey Haim, an excellent actor who died way too young. Why did he have to kill himself? Was the strain of being a star all his life too much for him? It wasn't even a spontaneous suicide, it had been planned. "Haim had used aliases to procure 553 prescription pills in the 32 days prior to his death, 'doctor-shopping' seven different doctors and using seven pharmacies to obtain the supply, which included 195 Valium, 149 Vicodin, 194 Soma and 15 Xanax." And he died broke, leaving not enough money to cover his funeral costs. What a waste!

This is a good film, though maybe not a horror film in the strict sense. Rather than concentrating on the werewolf itself, we're taken into the life of the crippled young boy played by Corey Haim and his determination to find the monster. Worth watching, and not just at Halloween.