Don't mind the hairballs or the dismembered corpses, those are just for show. Maybe. King's werewolf tale is certainly nothing less than chilling, despite a fuzzy exterior.
In King's tale, the evil exists without rhyme or reason, save maybe to feed. Perhaps this evils origins date so far back, it escapes human understanding. There is a rhyme this this evil: every full moon.
In more depth, King creates a sense of dread in Tarker's Mill. Of course King could have expanded the story, but that would have taken away from it. The town is certainly small, and with the narrative weaves, it feels outright claustrophobic. Sorry, I'm trying not to "fan-boy" too much.
Anyway, onto the teeth of the matter! With this tale, we get character. Yes, they may seem "cookie-cutter" but at the core, these are people, every day people going about their lives. When terror is introduced, you get more flavor to these characters. They each react differently, as anyone else would react to strange violent murders occurring in a small town.
Rating: 5/5
Something I hadn't seen mentioned, and this is a liberty the film took, and if King did extend the story, this probably would have been the direction, is that the werewolf or the beast, is used as a way to hunt and kill evil people, though this is kinda burned when the wolf attacks Marty, because he's innocent, unless Reverened Lowe sees their difference in faith as blasphemous, which may be true. But I think there could have been a little more to that than just feasting on people, to me King used this more to the affect and nature of the werewolf, which is all good and I'm not gonna complain.
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