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The Kingcast

71: Silver Bullet with Don Coscarelli

The Kingcast

FANGORIA Podcast Network

Tv & Film

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2021

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Don Coscarelli exploded onto the scene with PHANTASM in the late '70s. That film has many fans, Stephen King included, who has namechecked Phantasm many times in his work, including a big nod in the fifth Dark Tower book, Wolves of the Cala. 

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yearly subscription. Now on with the show. Hi, my name is Stephen King.

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My name is gonna break.

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is gonna break.

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Bad rock. Bad rock. You guys want to go see a dead body.

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But sometimes that is better.

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Hello and welcome back to the Kingcast on the

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Angoria Podcast Network my name is Eric Vespi and I'm Scott Wampler and we are

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your hosts. Today the topic at hand is Stephen King's Silver Bullet and

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the Oddity that inspired it the calendar-based novella cycle of the

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werewolf, and our guest today can add some insight into this particular adaptation.

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In 1979, he unleashed Fantasm on the world and created a new horror icon in the tall man.

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It should be noted that phantasm's influence has made its way into Star Wars.

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Captain Phasma was designed and named after the film.

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And even in the King's own writing,

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the Killer Spears were notably name-checked

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in Wolves of the Kala.

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