This is the first horror film work for actor Corey Haim, who was only thirteen-years-old when production began on the movie. Haim will go on to play Sam Emerson in the 1987vampire film The Lost Boys as well as a character named Travis in 1988's Watchers and Albert in 1997's Fever Lake.
Actress Megan Follows will revisit her werewolf roots in 1999 when she appears in the "Interview with a Werewolf" episode of the TV series Big Wolf on Campus as Violet Thorne.
Although the events of this film take place in the year 1976, a newspaper article has a date from the 1980s.
Production[]
Production on Silver Bullet began in October of 1984. Principal photography concluded in December, 1984.
The movie was shot entirely in Wilmington, North Carolina. This could explain why so many of the cast members have southern accents even though the fictional town of Tarker's Mills is supposed to be located in Maine.