# The Movie "THINNER"
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-thinner/800575
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [November 3, 2017, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-thinner/800575 "2017-11-03T04:29:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@anomalous1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anomalous1)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2017, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-thinner/800575/1 "2017-11-03T04:29:12Z")
I know its a a poor adaptation to Stephen Kings stuff (most of it is), but I found it absolutely hilarious in every possible way. It was not a horror movie at all, not even dark comedy to me, just absolutely cheap and hilarious.
Just thought I’d share… Anyone have any thoughts?
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### Author:  [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2017, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-thinner/800575/2 "2017-11-03T04:36:43Z")
It is pretty fun for not being good. And I can only ever hear Fat Tony when Joe Mantegna says anything. It’s worth watching like once every 5 or 10 yrs.
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### Author:  [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2017, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-thinner/800575/3 "2017-11-03T06:55:13Z")
I think it’s a pretty good adaptation of the book… which isn’t that great either.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2017, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-thinner/800575/4 "2017-11-03T11:10:04Z")
I’ve remarked before about this Stephen King story, because it’s one of the cases where I feel certain that I saw the story’s roots. As I posted back in 2005:
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> **Thinner** – When I read the novel (published under the Bachmann pseudonym) I immediately saw the similarity to an old story from a comic book. Back in **Journey into Mystery** #62 (pre-Thor), Steve Ditko drew a story based on a script by Stan Lee or Larry Lieber entitled “I Must Find Korumbu!” (It was reprinted in **Fear** #3 in 1971. I lost the first one, but I still have the second. [http://www.comics.org/details.lasso?id=24099](http://www.comics.org/details.lasso?id=24099) ) In it, a very fat and arrogant man forces gypsies off the land and endangers them. In response, a gypsy magician curses him so that he starts to lose weight, and finds that he keeps losing it at a disastrous rate. at the end, rail-thin despite constant eating, he searches for the Magician Korumbu (hence the title). The comic story ends with the search. The novel, of course, fills all this out and provides an ending (although not necessarily a satisfying one.)
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-316245.html](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-316245.html)
I still haven’t seen the movie. One of these days I’ll have to.
When I first read the book, my girlfriend at the time – a very sweet and, in most ways, innocent thing, who nevertheless had a very dark streak for things horror – said that “it wasn’t just the one curse. He has three different curses in it, which makes it more interesting” It does indeed. The Ditko story only has the one curse.
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### Author:  [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2017, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-thinner/800575/5 "2017-11-03T15:11:45Z")
Kari Wuhrer was gorgeous in this.
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### Author:  [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2017, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-thinner/800575/6 "2017-11-03T18:59:33Z")
I don’t think I’ve ever been scared by a horror movie. When watching horror movies I look for something unusual or different. Thinner isn’t a great movie but I believe it has an unusual premise, which I enjoyed.
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### Author:  [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2017, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-thinner/800575/7 "2017-11-03T19:50:18Z")
Most horror movies like this only work if you care about the characters. Every character in this movie was a piece of shit.
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### Author:  [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2017, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-thinner/800575/8 "2017-11-03T19:57:17Z")
I liked Michael Constantine as the old woman.