Silver Bullets

Name: Silver Bullets
Genre: Horror
Released: October 28, 2011
Duration: 70 min
Rating: 59

2011

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Factory 25 | Release Date: October 28, 2011 | Not Rated

Summary: Ethan is a director who aims to make meaningful art films, but is struggling with a creative slump and disengagement with his work. His girlfriend Claire, is an actress whose career is beginning to take off. She has accepted the lead part in a werewolf movie being directed by talented young horror filmmaker Ben. Ethan's depression leads toEthan is a director who aims to make meaningful art films, but is struggling with a creative slump and disengagement with his work. His girlfriend Claire, is an actress whose career is beginning to take off. She has accepted the lead part in a werewolf movie being directed by talented young horror filmmaker Ben. Ethan's depression leads to jealousy over both Claire’s success and her increasingly close relationship with Ben. Ethan decides to retaliate against Claire by casting her best friend Charlie in a romantic role opposite himself in his new film. As pettiness and jealousy spiral out of control within their relationship, Claire begins to slip into a surreal fantasy world that more closely mirrors her role in the werewolf film than that of her real life. Largely improvised Silver Bullets draws inspiration from Chekhov ‘s The Seagull and Roman Polanski’s Bitter Moon, while using David Foster Wallace as a reference point to explores fame, depression and suicide. (Factory 25)… Expand

Director: Joe Swanberg

Genre(s): Horror

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 70 min

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Jaime N. Christley

Oct 26, 2011

Joe Swanberg's idea of making audiences "happy" is by acknowledging what his supporters and detractors have been saying about him for a number of years, but presenting these things within the same game of elliptical story-unraveling and confession that's governed most of his other films. Read full review

Alison Willmore

Oct 26, 2011

The line between "highly personal" and "navel-gazing" varies depending on one's feelings toward the person offering up the serving of self-contemplation, but Silver Bullets' introspection feels earned. Read full review

Mark Holcomb

Oct 26, 2011

Silver Bullets is the most affecting "horror" movie I've seen in a while, as Swanberg ignores tired supernatural scare-flick trappings and locates terror in the shadowy, passive-aggressive process of making, and watching, movies. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Oct 27, 2011

Silver Bullets neither pleases the eye nor stimulates the mind. Read full review

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