Thinner - The Curse

Movie
German title	Thinner - The Curse
Original title	Thinner
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1996
length	88 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Tom Holland
script	Stephen King ; Michael McDowell; Tom Holland
production	Mitchell Galin ; Richard P. Rubinstein
music	Daniel light
camera	Kees Van Oostrum
cut	Marc Laub
occupation
	Robert John Burke : Billy Halleck; Joe Mantegna : Richie Ginelli; Lucinda Jenney : Heidi Halleck; Michael Constantine : Tadzu Lempke; Kari Wuhrer : Gina Lempke; Bethany Joy Lenz : Linda Halleck; Time Winters : The "pursuer"; Sam Freed : Dr. Mike Houston; Stephen King : Dr. Bangor; Jeff Ware : Max Duggenfield; Antonette Schwartzberg : Mama Ginelli; Ruth Miller : Billy's secretary; Irma St. Paule : Suzanne Lempke;

Thinner - The Curse (Original Title: Thinner ) is a horror film from 1996, which is based on the book The Curse by Stephen King , and for which King wrote the screenplay with Michael McDowell and Tom Holland .

action

The lawyer Billy Halleck, who runs over an old gypsy after a dinner with his wife Heidi, who pleases him orally while driving, is acquitted in a subsequent trial by the judge Carry Rossington. The local police chief Duncan Hopley had also obstructed the proceedings against the lawyer and expelled the gypsies from town.

The father of the dead, Tadzu Lempke, puts a curse on Billy on the steps to the courthouse. From then on, the overweight Billy Halleck lost weight every day. At first he is happy about the results of his “diet”, but his joy quickly turns into fear. Multiple medical examinations provide no explanations for the attorney's weight loss. Together with the Houston family doctor, his wife Heidi tries to explain Billy to be crazy and to admit him to a clinic that is supposed to find out more about his thinning.

Eventually Billy learns that the judge and police chief have also been cursed. Judge Rossington metamorphosed into a lizard; with Police Chief Hopley, purulent ulcers develop all over his face.

Billy can track down the gypsies, but they only call him a murderer. Despite pleading, Tadzu Lempke does not take the curse from Billy, who then places the gypsies under their laughter with the "curse of the white man from the city". Billy's curse is his friend and client, the New York mafioso Richard “the hammer” Ginelli. Several attacks by Ginelli, some of which were fatal, move Tadzu Lempke to take Billy's curse after all. He then banishes the curse from Billy's blood in a cake that he had brought with him especially for this purpose.

Billy has to give this cake to someone to eat so that the curse will spread to them. Back home, Billy gives the cake to his wife Heidi, believing that she cheated on him with Doctor Houston. The next morning, Billy wakes up next to his completely disfigured and dead wife. He meets his daughter in the kitchen and notices that she has also eaten the cake. As he is about to eat a piece of his own, Dr. Houston at the door. Billy tells him that he is not angry at all and that he wants to make up with him. He invites Dr. Houston for a piece of cake. He gratefully accepts and enters the house next to a crazy smiling Billy and the film ends.

Reviews

“A crude story - even by King standards. And so it is hardly surprising that horror is paired with an unbelieving shake of the head in the audience. But since director Tom Holland (' Chucky - Die Mörderpuppe ') is an old shock-sovereign and the ending comes with a surprising bang, you are not really annoyed. You knew beforehand: The days when works of art like ' Carrie ' and ' Shining ' were created from King books are long gone. "

- TV movie

"A long horror story based on Stephen King, which relies entirely on mask and trick effects, but also cannot hide its insubstantiality due to some unsavory qualities."

- Lexicon of international film

backgrounds

Greg Cannom was nominated for the Saturn Award in 1997 for makeup .

Stephen King appears in the film as the pharmacist Bangor. Bangor (Maine) is the home of the writer.

The Gypsy family name appears in some Portuguese versions of the story, as in the original novel, as Lemke instead of Lempke.

Web links

Thinner - the curse in theInternet Movie Database(English)
Thinner - the curse atRotten Tomatoes(English)

Individual evidence

[1] Thinner - The Curse on tvspielfilm.de

[2] Thinner - The Curse in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed April 30, 2012


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