Stephen King's Thinner

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Stephen King's Thinner

R

1996

1h 32m

Horror

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Billy Halleck (Robert John Burke) is an obese lawyer who accidentally hits a Gypsy with his car after his wife distracts him. Given Halleck's influence in town and a general prejudice against Gypsies, he manages to brush the incident under the rug with some unethical legal help from his associates. However, the victim's father, Tadzu Lempke (Michael Constantine), places a curse on the heavyset man, and he starts to lose weight at an alarming rate, which is followed by other macabre events.

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Critics Consensus

A bland, weightless horror film that seems to want to mock itself as the proceedings drag on.

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

The anemic screenplay offers little in the way of engaging scenarios and satisfactory payoffs.

Rated: 2/4

Feb 8, 2024

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Kevin Carr

Fat Guys at the Movies

A well-made adaptation of King’s work that balances body horror with questionable morality.

Rated: 2.5/4

Jan 27, 2024

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Patrick Cavanaugh

The Wolfman Cometh

Even though the source material itself is flawed, the film has too many tonal inconsistencies to know whether to laugh at or be creeped out by the experience.

Rated: 2/5

Sep 22, 2023

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

The thinner the lawyer becomes the thinner the story gets.

Rated: B-

Aug 17, 2023

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Grant Watson

Fiction Machine

Thinner is jaw-droppingly bad: not only weirdly amateurish but regularly offensive.

Rated: 2/10

Jan 26, 2023

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Rob Gonsalves

Rob's Movie Vault

A wretched excuse for a horror movie and a flat-out disgrace on every level.

Rated: F

Sep 1, 2022

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Jonathan N

Spoilers: This contains spoilers. Go watch this before reading my review. Best movie about a guy getting a Gypsy curse and then losing a bunch of weight and then killing his entire family I've ever seen.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

08/15/25

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John E

Very disappointed. This is an awful, ugly movie - there are no good characters. The Mafia guy is the closest to a likable character. It's basically a torture and snuff film. The premise of a selfish fat guy losing lots of weight where he can't stop, that was funny for maybe 30 seconds but that's the whole film. And the sick ending of the main guy's wife, daughter eating the pie, what was with that? Our country used to have community standards to prevent #*$&@ like this.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

08/06/25

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thiago s

Filme fraco, o roteiro é fraco, as cenas de terror são fracas, a história é fraca, o elenco é fraco, e ninguém ajuda a melhorar o filme, os personagens são fracos, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores e relevantes, para fazer o filme ser bom.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

06/11/25

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Julian S

You can’t help but enjoy this dark, funny, and often campy story by Stephen King, which wraps up with a twist you won’t forget.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

10/05/24

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Jonathan O

Thinner is the weakest Stephen King since Maximum Overdrive is really strange and confuse body horror and the special effects looks great and pretty much it.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

09/26/24

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John R

I wondered to myself how I missed this movie because I usually go for all of Stephen King‘s adaptations. But after watching it, I can see through some form of clairvoyance on my own. I have been protecting myself from what possibly is the worst adaptation of any horror writers novel or story let alone Kings. I couldn’t decide whether it was a satire or serious? The acting bordered on slapstick. The characters so exaggerated. It was like the characters were caricatures of what the writer intended. And then it ended so abruptly with a piece of strawberry pie. We don’t even get to see the last victim, eat it. It was a lousy film, and I seldom say that.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

08/26/24

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Tom Holland

Director

Robert John Burke

Billy Halleck

Joe Mantegna

Richie Ginelli

Michael Constantine

Tadzu Lempke

Lucinda Jenney

Heidi Halleck

Kari Wuhrer

Gina Lempke

Thinner: Official Clip - The White Man from Town

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Thinner: Official Clip - I'm Being Erased!

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Thinner: Official Clip - You Lose!

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Thinner: Official Clip - Did You Try It?

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Thinner: Official Clip - The Attack

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Thinner: Official Clip - Die Clean

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Thinner: Official Clip - What Have I Done?

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Thinner: Official Clip - Still Thinking About Food?

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Thinner: Official Clip - Take the Gun!

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Thinner: Official Clip - The Curse

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Synopsis

Billy Halleck (Robert John Burke) is an obese lawyer who accidentally hits a Gypsy with his car after his wife distracts him. Given Halleck's influence in town and a general prejudice against Gypsies, he manages to brush the incident under the rug with some unethical legal help from his associates. However, the victim's father, Tadzu Lempke (Michael Constantine), places a curse on the heavyset man, and he starts to lose weight at an alarming rate, which is followed by other macabre events.

Director: Tom Holland
Producer: Richard P. Rubinstein, Mitchell Galin
Screenwriter: Michael McDowell, Tom Holland
Production Co: Paramount Pictures, Spelling Films International
Rating: R
Genre: Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 1, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA): $15.3M
Runtime: 1h 32m
Sound Mix: Surround

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