Silver Bullet

Silver Bullet (1985)

Ending / spoiler

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Uncle Red(Gary Busey), Marty Coslaw(Corey Haim), and Jane Coslaw(Megan Follows) hole up in the house with a gun that is loaded with only one silver bullet. Megan sees the werewolf looking in through a window. A few moments later the power is cut. Suddenly the werewolf explodes through a wall and attacks them. Uncle Red wrestles with it but it easily overpowers him and knocks him out. It then tries to kill Marty, but he shoots it in the head with the gun and it falls to the floor, dead. It's carcass transforms back into.... Reverend Lowe(Everett McGill).

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Factual error: When Marty is on the covered bridge, after running from the pastor, he hears a tractor running. He starts yelling for Mr. Zimmerman, who is driving the tractor, and Mr. Zimmerman stops the tractor and walks to the covered bridge. It would have been nearly impossible for Mr. Zimmerman to hear Marty yelling for him over the noise of the tractor.

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Milt Sturmfuller: Ow! That's it. Oh, that hurts my parts.

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Trivia: Gary Busey ad-libbed a majority of his lines. When director Daniel Attias told Stephen King about this, Stephen said he was OK with it.

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Question: Reverend Lowe says that he's been killing people because of the sins they committed but why did he kill Brady? He never committed a sin.

Answer: Firstly, Reverend Lowe is deluding himself by saying he only kills people because of their sins. He is in fact wracked with guilt over his actions and has at least one vivid nightmare about this. Secondly, in the Christian faith all humans are considered sinners so this gives Reverend Lowe a justification for his beliefs. Anyone he kills would be a sinner in his eyes, including Brady.

BaconIsMyBFF

I think the first part is more accurate. It really has nothing to do with the idea of original sin or everyone being a sinner since he states he only punishes the evil, corrupt, and immoral. He tells Marty he'd never hurt an innocent child. He just really has no control of his Wolf side and is lying to himself about why he kills.

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