Weight Loss in Effect

While I agree with many of the posts before this one, I have to admit that MY favorite Stephen King book and movie is "Thinner". I think I was initially intrigued by the idea of being cursed with thinness, as I was overweight at the time, so I wondered how thinness could be a curse! *lol* But once I started reading, I was totally into it. I love gypsies, so having some in the movie made it all the better for me.

But really, I think this story has the perfect blend of spookiness, revenge, horror (mental AND physical), and 'what-the-fuck'-ness. The book is a little better, of course, because you can read the inner workings of the protagonist and better feel his increasing horror at his predicament, coupled with his desperation to resolve it, not to mention his feelings of anger towards the one person who's supposed to love him most. I felt everything Billy felt and could completely imagine being in his shoes. And his cronies! Oh, my! I won't give everything away, but the curses they were under were at least as horrifying.

And insofar as the movie, Joe Mantegna is the shit; I love him in most everything, but he was all over his character and I couldn't get enough. The other actors were also spot-in and I was never taken out of the story due to terrible acting.

If you haven't heard of this one because you've been overwhelmed with all the biggies, I implore you to check it out; you won't be disappointed.