![]() And so for decades afterwards I detested this flick. Carlo Rambaldi’s werewolf suit was a bust in every conceivable way. I thought, oh, look, they’re being attacked by a werebear. The final confrontation at the end where we see the “werewolf” in all its glory-holy shit, it was a goddamn bear?! Yes, that’s what it looked like to me. I saw it a year later on cable and while I enjoyed it for the most part it was the ending that eventually destroyed all that for me. That’s probably why I remember this memory, because of the ‘emotional component’ of disappointment and envy. Most movies we all wanted to see, we saw together. You know, it’s funny, because that’s how it was, when you’re a kid and a movie comes to town you want to see, you absolutely have to see it opening night, if you couldn’t, you prayed none of your friends saw it before you. Truth be told I was also now a tad jealous he had seen it before I did. I remember being instantly disappointed he didn’t ask me to go with him. ![]() I believe I was thumbing through his collection of Fangorias when I came across a Silver Bullet article and he told me he saw it last night. I was hanging out with my best friend, Gerry, at his house, and I have this feeling it was night time, and we were in his room. I had to check the release date first on IMDB to put my first “memory” in perspective, looks like it came out October of ’85, making me sixteen. This gem comes from my high school years, which means it qualifies, big time, as a ‘memory movie,’ and if you follow my reviews you know how much I love reviewing ‘memory movies.’ I have three for this one, but only two have stayed relatively vivid in my memory banks. This review has now been updated to included Scream Factory’s new U.S. ![]() Umbrella Entertainment’s blu-ray was reviewed on July 4, 2017.
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