Silver Bullet (1985)

"When darkness falls, terror rises."
When a group of horrifying attacks reaches the once peaceful town of Tarker's Mill, it ends up becoming a very chaotic and dangerous place to be, as the panic stricken citizens suddenly now find themselves in a desperate situtation and where things is coming very close of getting way out of control.
However not everybody is so sure that this is the work of some murdering madman on the loose, as the young Marty Coslow (Corey Haim) and his older sister Jane (Megan Follows) think it might be the work of something far more dangerous and inhuman.

Heavily inspired by Anthonyrocks thread in the Movie General section from yesterday, I thought about re-watching it again last night, and since I could not find a thread for the film in the horror section (I did try and use the search function but nothing came up) so I decided to start up an own thread for the 1985 horror/adventure movie, Silver Bullet. I thought I had given it a 7/10 rating, but it turns out I only gave it a 6/10, but I had not seen the film some time, and last night it felt like the right moment to do something about that. 
I was surprised at how serious some of the scenes was, specially the conversations or meeting between the town folks, and some of those scenes I thought was incredible well done and acted out. Also the werewolf came as a pleasant surprise, most of the time.
My favorite part was when we only saw a few glimpses here and there, but mostly heard it's terrifying noises and breathing.
But the most fearsome part for me was seeing only the eyes of the beast, specially in the dark at night.
Now that has to be some of the most down right scary and evil looking eyes I have ever seen in a movie, maybe only beaten by the chilling and calculating death stare of the endoskeleton at the end of The Terminator (1984).
Nothing human about those eyes at all, just pure evil and Marty was some brave kid, going up against such a nightmarish creature all by himself and trapped in a wheel chair. However, it was as I said, most of the times. As I did not like the transformation scene, that was not bad but poor, or at least compared to other werewolf 80s films such as An American Werewolf in London (1981) or The Howling (1981).

Corey Haim was fantastic as was Megan Follows in the main leads, where their brother and sister relationship along with their friendship with Uncle Red (Gary Busey) was the heartbeat of this film, and I only wished there would be a couple of more scenes with them and Uncle Red included, as they were both very funny and touching.
I have never read the novel, but I am planning on that after seeing the film again. 
I was also surprised at how grisly some of the scenes was in the movie, not just a little but very heavy with heads flying and blood gushing, that I had completely forgot about. 

The soundtrack by Jay Chattaway is very good, maybe a bit more adventurous than his unsettling and darker scores he did on his work for William Lustig, but I thought it fitted well in with the film and it's little town atmosphere, and at times the movie felt more like a early 90s film, than someone who is made in the mid 80s.
As I said earlier, I gave it a 6/10 but seeing it once more, I upgraded it to a very kind 7/10.
All in all, it has a feel-good vibe to it, and while I felt some of the scenes was maybe a bit "rushed" I really enjoyed re-watching it, and so much I might just do it again tonight.