I vaguely remember reading somewhere that Stephen King had an anonymous cameo in Silver Bullet, playing one of the werewolves/parishioners in the dream sequence.
Am I right?
John
Am I right?
John
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Would have to ask as that was before my time but maybe someone else has an answer for you.I vaguely remember reading somewhere that Stephen King had an anonymous cameo in Silver Bullet, playing one of the werewolves/parishioners in the dream sequence.
Am I right?
John
If you go to 1:08 (by my timer) there is a lone wolf with his hands on the back of the pew in front of him sort of swaying back and forth -- that kind looks like stephen, but I'm sure I'm just seeing him in there by the power of suggestion.Don't see him,Imdb doesn't mention it in the trivia section..
I saw that guy too..but apparently he didn't have a part,googled that..If you go to 1:08 (by my timer) there is a lone wolf with his hands on the back of the pew in front of him sort of swaying back and forth -- that kind looks like stephen, but I'm sure I'm just seeing him in there by the power of suggestion.
He just throws a baseball (the opening pitch) but it's pretty cool to see him in that movie. Jimmy Fallon has a great part in that as well - quite a good movie!SK got reunited with Drew Barrymore once more in Fever Pitch (2005, Peter and Bobby Farrelly) in which he did a cameo. I haven't seen that one though.
I listened to the Knightriders commentary with Romero, Savini and several others. Although when King comes on they mention him obviously, but they don't explain why he was on set, since he did not write it or was it based on something by him. Romero only quickly mentions that he 'had just started working with him' (they worked on an adaptation for a theatrical version of Salem's Lot, before it went to television with Tobe Hooper directing). I don't know at this time (1981) whether there was already talk of Creepshow, but that was 1982 so it's very possible.
Is this about 1983/84? I think King is wearing engineer boots because there's a buckle on the side of them. I've never seen this clip before. I see that Gerald says it's from 1980.In this episode of the Dick Cavett show they already talk about Creepshow, and it looks by the copyright that's in 1980. I don't know if this was before or after Knightriders was filmed.
Straub, King, Levin and Romero! What a line-up! In these talks about horror there's often the same topics, but still I didn't know some things, like that The Shining was inspired by Bradbury's The Veldt, or that Tabitha came up with the idea for Salem's Lot first.
In fact they comment that the genre is often parasitic, a lot of well-known books and films are based on earlier works - like I Am Legend inspired Romero for Night of the Living Dead.
I also find it interesting that Levin says this same thing SK has said: that the inspiration and basis for books and stories are often not one thing, but a couple of ideas coming together and clicking somehow.
I don't know if I agree with them that horrorstories need humor. It seems to me that some of the best horror doesn't have a lot of humor, like a lot of Gothic horror doesn't have humor (for example the Hammer films; Amicus films of the same period often have humor, but Hammer not much), or a masterpiece like The Exorcist doesn't have humor.
I'm always surprised SK and Romero think of Creepshow as a really scary film they wanted to make. I think the comic strip style and the Jordy Verrill episode make it quite funny. It's always been more of a nostalgic, funny film to me than a scary one.
Is this about 1983/84? I think King is wearing engineer boots because there's a buckle on the side of them. I've never seen this clip before. I see that Gerald says it's from 1980.