Thinner1996

A tale of negligent homicide, class warfare, vengeance, jealousy and murder, Stephen King's Thinner has the outlines of Shakespearean tragedy and the intellectual content of a jack o'lantern. But as such ventures go, this Halloween handout is more treat than trick, if your tastes run to dripping blood and repellent skin ailments. The production is slick, the Maine scenery is bracing, the characters are well-acted, and in a mumbo-jumbo movie with a few loose ends, the makeup central to the plot and applied by Greg Cannom and Bob Laden to Robert John Burke in the leading role is most admirable.

特别有趣的剧本，因果报应，双向诅咒，更精彩的是男主从事故主要承担者变成受害者，而后段又成为了施害者，变成了施加诅咒的“吉普赛人”，而从最初的事故来看，男主和吉普赛人其实都负有责任，但吉普赛人一直以来所受白人甚至世人的嫌弃和不公，自己所做了一套“吉普赛正义”，也是一种另类的罪恶诞生，没有绝对的恶和善，都是从自己角度所认为的正义。电影的各处情节都有明显的社会对视，“城里的白人”和“乡下的吉普赛人”，也暗喻着社会层面，而故事的诅咒更是一种歧视对立的代表，斯蒂芬金的剧本一直都带有对人性和各种深层次的探讨，令人敬畏

Halloween makes fright fans even more tolerant than usual of second-rate horror pictures, and this one still doesn't cut the mustard.