horror is a laugh for me. I haven't been scared or frightened by a movie since "THE SHINING". And of course that was directed by an outright MASTER of the cinema Kubrick .So, sit back and think you are watching a light-horror movie...and I promise you it will be fun!

people comparing it to the book the book was geart but so was the movie even though it doesn't have every little detail that was in the book

This is a very good and thrilling film. If you are a fan of Robert John Burke, Joe Mantegna, Lucinda Jenney, Michael Constantine, Kari Wuhrer, the rest of the cast in the film, Horror, and Thrillers, and Stephen King then I strongly recommend you to see this film today!

this is a underrated film. This is a cult classic to be sure. Based on a novel by Richard Bachman The Running Man , which is actually Stephen King.DVD has an sharp anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1 transfer and an strong-Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound. DVD has an behind the scenes feautrette and an entertaining commentary track by the director and actor:Joe Mantegna Who has an supporting role as a gangster . This is a fascinating horror film is loaded with dark humor. Written by the director and Micheal Mc Dowell Bettlejuice . **** ½/***** .

his friends to find the gypsy and lift the curse. Then when he does lift the curse on the lawyer, he puts it in the pie and tells the lawyer to "die clean". I get the picture though. After seeing this movie, I said to myself, Stephen King really outdid himself with that story, I couldn't try making of movie with that character. The characters in the movie are great, and the intrigue really put me on the edge of my seat. A very fine movie. At least I won't make a pig out of myself when it ends. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! Rating 4 out of 5 stars!

"It" was OK, but was so wattered down for the TV viewing audience. "Misery" was a masterpiece who's actor's made up for the serious subject line gap.

During the trial, Billy omits the reason of the accident; the chief of police Duncan Hopley Daniel von Bargen perjuries; and the bigoted judge declares Billy not- guilty for the accident. On the next day, Billy, Duncan and Phillips are cursed by Tadzu that puts a hex on each one of them. Billy gets thinner and thinner and while seeking out Tadzu to ask him to remove the spell, he suspects that his wife is having an affair with his doctor and friend Mike Houston Sam Freed . Billy feels that his life is running out and asks for help to Ritchie to convince Tadzu using his method to call off the jinx. The creepy "Thinner" is an underrated and one of my favorite horror movies based on a Stephen King's novel. The special effects and make-up were state-of-art in 1996 and even thirteen years later, they are very good. With the exception of Billy'/s daughter, all characters are corrupt in some level and deserve their fate. A couple of months ago, I saw another good movie based on the same theme - a gypsy curse – Sam Raimi's "Drag me to Hell". My vote is eight.Title Brazil : "A Maldição" "The Curse"

utters one word: "Thinner". Soon, Billy is rapidly losing weight, which he enjoys at first, until he realizes that he really is going to waste away to nothing unless something is done.Just personally speaking, this viewer has a blast with this particular King story. Yes, it's unrelentingly downbeat, but he didn't mind that so much. And it's true: other than Billy's daughter Linda Bethany Joy Lenz , there isn't a single character in the story who's remotely sympathetic. Still, this viewer found it refreshing that so many people here turn out to be such a-holes. It's a highly entertaining tale, well told by co-screenwriter and director Tom Holland "Fright Night", "Child's Play" . And it's fortunately not completely without a sense of humor, although the humor tends towards the dark.There's wonderful music by Daniel Licht, but the real marvel of the movie is the astonishing, convincing makeup effects supervised by Oscar winner Greg Cannom that transform the thin Burke into an obese man. There's also a gem of a supporting performance by the always entertaining Joe Mantegna as a mafia man whom Billy had successfully defended in court. Therefore, the mobster feels indebted to the lawyer, and is more than willing to help Billy in his quest to convince the ancient Gypsy to remove the curse. The supporting cast is solid right down the line, with Lucinda Jenney as Billy's possibly unfaithful wife the script tries to leave this aspect as ambiguous as possible , Sam Freed as a doctor friend, the intoxicatingly sexy Kari Wuhrer as Constantines' great granddaughter, Elizabeth Franz in a bravura turn as Hortons' wife, and Peter Maloney as an information provider. Director Hollands' son Josh plays Frank Spurton; King has his usual cameo playing a pharmacist . What is a real laugh is the fact that actress Irma St. Paule, as the accident victim, actually looks OLDER than Constantine!Good gloomy fun, but it won't be to all "tastes", especially the ending.Eight out of 10.