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...werewolf schtick went through a novelette" phase on its way to becoming a box-office draw, but it would be a mistake to call Silver Bullet a story. Stories generally rely on characters and a plot...
...Silver Bullet has a werewolf and gallons of blood...
Since the movie doesn't star a frumpy dog with a sad face, it stars a crippled kid with a sad face (Corey Haim). The kid zips around town in a motorized wheelchair called "The Silver Bullet," longingly watches his buddies play baseball, sneaks out of his room late at night to light fireworks and does other such adorable things...
What happens instead is a burst of violence that would seem incredible were | it not for Keene's matter-of-fact transcriptions of what he has seen or heard. He and a scouting party find three friends massacred: "Martha's breasts were skinned. They are made by Indians into bullet pouches, says Beam." That juxtaposition of horror and information perfectly captures the genius of this imaginary diary. For Nissenson has created an apparently loose, formless work that is poetic in its artful selectivity. Scarcely a word is wasted. Hardly an aspect of the struggle to found a new civilization remains...
Cinema 57: 200 Stuart St., near Park St., Boston, 482-1222. Commando: 1, 3:15, 5:25, 7:45, 10:10; Silver Bullet...