Reverend Lowe is the antagonist in the 1985 film, Silver Bullet.
The small town of Tarker's Mills was a place that was very peaceful, where nothing extraordinary ever happened until one night when murders began. The townspeople believe it's some maniacal killer on the loose whom they intend to hunt down. Marty, a young handicapped boy, believes the killer is no man at all, but a werewolf. After a run-in with the werewolf, Marty and his sister Jane hunt all over town for the man who is the werewolf.
Appearance
Reverend Lowe looks like any man until he changes into a werewolf.
Powers and Abilities
Reverend Lowe possesses the following powers and abilities:
- Intimidation
- Deception
- Teeth And Claws
- Hunts/Tracks its Prey
- Leaps and Lunges
- Powerful Strength
Fate
Reverend Lowe is finally killed when Marty shoots a single silver bullet into the werewolf's eye during a full Moon.
Trivia
- The werewolf dream sequence utilized a total of seventy extras that were divided up into four groups with various levels of make-up and costume. These ranged from approximately ten principal actors used for close-ups and action shots, having the most refined looks, while the remainders were just made to appear menacing and fill up the rest of the church to give it a full house appearance.
- Shooting started without a proper werewolf suit.
- Producer Dino De Laurentiis was very unhappy with the werewolf used in the film. He was disappointed in both the way it looked and the way the costumed actor moved.
- Complete construction of the werewolf costume took three months. After finalization of the shape and design, using three-dimensional clay heads, the entire costume was made of foam and polyurethane and was covered with actual bear hair. The head of the costume was mechanically operated by six people from a distance of up to thirty feet away.
- Early drafts of the film's script, including the pressbook release, stated that the werewolf speaks. In the film itself, the werewolf does not speak at any time.
- In "Cycle of the Werewolf", the story on which this film is based, the events take place over the course of a year. A murder was committed by the werewolf once a month. In the film, the murders occurred over the course of several months, from spring to autumn.
- When Red questions the culprit's supposed lycanthropy by pointing out that there wasn't a full moon when Marty was attacked, Marty and Jane posit that while the stories say that the werewolves turn during the full moon, this werewolf may perhaps turn whenever he likes. The werewolf also targets a very specific woman in her own home and breaks in to murder her there, which is uncharacteristic of most werewolves who in both mythology and other works of modern fiction keep to themselves for the most part and only attack those who enter into their territory.
- This movie was released during an early to mid 1980s cycle of werewolf movies. The other movies being Wolfen (1981), The Howling (1981), An American Werewolf in London (1981), Full Moon High (1981), The Company of Wolves (1984), Howling II: ... Your Sister Is a Werewolf (1985), Teen Wolf Too (1987), and Howling III (1987).
- Stephen King asked that the werewolf be plain, and hard to see, in contrast to the hulking monsters seen in other werewolf films and books in the early-to-mid-1980s, with the end result being a creature which looked more like a black bear than anything else and did not really have any identifying characteristics.
- Body Count: 9
- Everett McGill who portrays the werewolf also starred in a episode of a TV show called Werewolf (1987) Werewolf: Blood on the Tracks (1987).
- Everett McGill is billed twice - once as Reverend Lowe at the top of the credits and as Werewolf at the bottom of the credits.
Photo Gallery
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