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Stephen Kingcast

Episode Twenty Nine-Stephen King's Silver Bullet

Stephen Kingcast

Constant Reader

Tv & Film, Arts, Arts:books, Books

4.7680 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2015

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Because Cycle of the Werewolf was such a short episode, I decided to release my review of Stephen King's Silver Bullet a week early!  So there you go, constant listeners!  You get two reviews in the span of one week!  In this week's episode of the Stephen Kingcast, tune in for my review of Silver Bullet, King's film adaptation of Cycle of the Werewolf.  With Cory Haim, Gary Busey, Everett McGill, Terry O'Quinn, Bill Smitrovich, and a killer soundtrack, does this movie top King's novella?  Take a joyride this week on the Stephen Kingcast to find out!

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0:00.0

Hello everyone

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Hello everyone

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And all I ask is for a wish come true

0:11.0

Hello everyone and welcome to the Stephen King

0:14.0

One Man's musings on the Works of Stephen King.

0:16.0

Each week I'll review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King

0:20.0

In the Chronological order of publication.

0:22.5

And this week, rather than reviewing one of his written works, I'm reviewing 1985's Stephen King's Silver Bullet,

0:29.8

the adaptation of his collaboration with Bernie Wrightson's mix between a short story and a calendar, Cyclo of the Werewolf.

0:36.1

Before we get into the review itself, I want to share the Stephen King's cinematic universe,

0:41.6

put together by Michael Rothman, Dan Caffrey, Justin Gerber, Randall Calburn, and Dan Flevgor at Consequence of Sound.

0:50.8

If you haven't checked this out yet, you should stop listening this podcast right right now and head over to consequence of sound.net to check it out.

0:59.1

The consequence of sound president and editor-in-chief writes, back in October, Scott Tobias wrote a condemning case against cinematic universes, arguing that the films conform to a specific template

1:11.7

includes scenes that are otherwise useless and eventually add up to a confusing viewing.

1:17.0

He's not wrong. For all of its past glories, Disney's Marvel Cinematic Universe has become an

1:22.5

intricate web of cursed narratives and curious mythologies that will only get more complicated as the waves

1:28.4

continue to pummel theaters. But really, the stories beg for that medium. The universe allows

1:34.1

them to get away with an Avengers film that doesn't feel too over or underwrought. The problem

1:39.5

is that everyone's doing it. DC films tipped off theirs in 2013 with Man of Steel. Fox continues to

1:46.2

stretch out their X-Men franchise and Sony's doing something with Spider-Man, we think. The difference

1:51.7

lies in execution. Whereas Marvel has spent the better half of a decade or even maybe more

1:57.0

planning theirs. The others seem to have juggled their own licenses around because, well, that's what's

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