Quartile rating: 6.5/10 · 1 rating
An obese lawyer finds himself growing "Thinner" when an old Romani man places a hex on him. Now the lawyer must call upon his friends in organized crime to help him persuade the old man to lift the curse. Time is running out for the desperate lawyer as he draws closer to his own death, and grows ever thinner.
Thinner is a mid-tier Stephen King adaptation with a genuinely compelling curse premise that escalates well. The plot holds together reasonably with some darkly comic momentum, though pacing drags in the middle sections. Acting is uneven — Robert John Burke struggles under heavy prosthetics and the supporting cast is inconsistent, with the Romani characters veering into caricature. Cinematography is workmanlike genre fare, functional but unremarkable. The film's novelty lies in its body-horror-as-moral-comeuppance angle, which has a distinctive King flavor, though it doesn't transcend its source material in any cinematically inventive way. The ending, however, is legitimately memorable and mean-spirited in the best King tradition — a genuinely dark, ironic payoff that elevates the whole film and stands as one of the better King adaptation conclusions of the era.