Thinner (1996)

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.

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

Holland's direction is functional, as befits the kind of cable fodder Thinner is destined to be.

There’s really nothing particularly fresh in this routinely crafted, banally scripted and directed effort. Mantegna’s humorously arrogant performance is the pic’s sole distinctive element, and it’s saved for the finale. Still, it’s just not good enough to make up for the rest of the drudgery and put a smile on one’s face leaving the theater.

Particularly impressive is the film's success at making an actor of average weight look emaciated. His cheekbones are built up so his cheeks appear to sink.

The problem with Thinner, which went unscreened for critics, is that it's medium-level King. It lacks the gravity of "Shawshank" and the crazed obsession of "Misery." It's more like "Needful Things," another good film of a lightweight story, with a few more servings of gore and gross-out humor to hold us over until the next big thing.

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

律师替黑脱罪，歧视少数族裔，行车乱性撞人，被下咒遭厄运……都是好莱坞保守类型片里的俗套起式，可最终没有一个按套路走下去，特别是乔·曼特纳的黑老大的角色功用！把公共道德善恶因果扔到一边剑走偏锋另辟蹊径可能就是一种Cult。增肥/减重通常出现在不必当真的荒诞喜剧片中，惊悚恐怖也玩这套会可能产生事与愿违的情绪外溢，不过好在本片也注意到不能过于严肃，就连片名Thinner在描述主人公遭遇同时也在双关Sinner。

CM里的Rossi大叔在这里是意大利黑帮，而且杀了吉普赛人好像也没怎么样，真恶人真是百无禁忌...

会耍计的普通坏人斗不过会使诅咒的人，会使诅咒的人斗不过更疯狂的坏人

斯蒂芬金编剧。然而里面扮演黑手党老大的居然是犯罪心理中的ross大大。ross大大演什么都是警察范儿。片子不错，但是恐怖程度非常之低。最后，请老天赐我一个吉普赛人吧！！！！！Please！！！！

很大程度上不能说是恐怖片，只能说是悬疑片，但是结尾的那个微笑，告诉观者的，却远不仅是下一个受害者那么简单

很好看。而且当时的化妆居然这么强…… 很有意思的题材，主角演的也很好，那种里子的扭曲畸形很到位。吉普赛老头的孙女真漂亮。那个黑手党头头对男主太够意思了吧 0 0

頭重腳輕，越到後來越失去控制，最後變得很無聊。結果整體上還是作為類似恐怖大師一樣的短篇比較合適，神秘色彩反而會不被淹沒。到最後就像是嚇唬小孩的主題，做了壞事就要勇於承擔，不然後果很嚴重。。。

姐可以去演《胖到死》——一边疯狂健身一边猛增体重orz

这个故事告诉我们，千万别在开车的时候玩口活游戏，这个在《撞车》上也说明过了，同时，惹谁都别惹吉普赛人！

还行~睡前看个喜欢的类型~~

有开车的必须看看

吉普赛巫术 = =！

斯蒂芬金从未让人失望

突然发现斯蒂芬金在里面客串了配药的药剂师····

还想再看

平淡

寓意很深啊。

别惹吉普赛人。

小時候陪家人到節拍租碟，最大的樂趣就是不斷徘徊於恐怖電影架子，睇簡介，睇到腳軟，睇到世界唔安全，睇到阿媽叫我走，然後同阿媽講，不如租呢隻。