This is fairly standard werewolf stuff with that Stephen King "coming-of-age" feel. It's enjoyable, but fairly predictable in both plot and feel. What saves it from being rote are the performances of Haim and Busey, who develop a really enjoyable and slightly off-kilter chemistry. Besides that it moves through the normal tropes and narrative devices one would expect, but everything is done well and at the end of the movie I felt well entertained! This certainly deserves a look alongside other possibly better-known films like The Howling, Wolfen, An American Werewolf in London etc.
Review of Silver Bullet
