no and i haven not read the stephen king novel thinner and but i choke down the film version . horror movie be an acquired taste . regular movie give an audience a hero to applaud a he strive to achieve a goal . in horror movie and audience be invite to savor the demise of character . in director tom holland low fat but tasteless revenge chiller thinner and nobody win and everybody deserve the bite that be put on them . gluttonous new england attorney billy halleck ( robert john burke of robocop 3 ) have a weight problem . although he rock the bathroom scale at 300 pound and he appear happily marry to a trim and delectable wife and heidi ( lucinda jenney of g. i. jane ) with a yeasty teenage daughter . fat doesn not mean stupid here . halleck display his sagacity in court when he win an acquittal verdict for sleazy mafia chieftain richie ginelli ( joe mantegna of house of game ) . drive home from a victory feast and billy hit an old gypsy woman cross the street and kill her . a cover up occurs and and halleck friend get him out of the soup . the disgruntled gypsy father taduz lemke ( michael constantine of skidoo ) retaliate with a curse on the corpulent lawyer and the two town official that exonerate him . suddenly and halleck find himself shed pound no matter how much chow he chomp . when he beg the vengeful gypsy to lift the curse and the old man refuse . desperately and halleck resort to richie . while halleck struggle with the gypsy to remove the hex and he learn that his loyal wife have turn his attention to the town hotshot doctor . thinner qualifies a not only laughably inept horror flick and but the filmmaker also rely on stereotype of men and woman . tom holland and who direct child play ( 1988 ) and and scenarist michael mcdowell and have serve up such a slipshod script that you can not relish watch billy get his just dessert and shrivel up . thinner boast few shock and few surprise . the filmmaker may have regurgitate king novel and but they have fillet whatever sense of horror and humor it contain . holland and mcdowell introduce character and such a the mafioso and then inexplicably let them off the hook . one minor character show up long enough to die and have a chicken head stuffed in his mouth . the stereotypical behavior of the character may offend audience and too . thinner depict woman a oversexed vixen and men a swine . when halleck sneak home from a clinic and he find his doctor sport car park at his house . his suspicion ripen into jealousy and he cook up a scheme to get the curse transfer to this wife . even the premature end lack any satirical flavor . oscar win special effect wizard greg cannom of van helsing and make up artist bob laden do a fabulous job beef up actor robert john burke to look obese . they succeed and too and in make him shrivel . only die hard stephen king fan will be able to stomach this misogynistic gooledyspook .