Our lookbacks at the screen adaptations of Stephen King find us at Thinner, starring Robert John Burke…
However, the old womans father (Michael Constantine) has a different kind of justice in mind.
The opening third feels comically grotesque which occasionally rears back up again when the film descends into outright horror.
Thinneralso struggles on a practical level.
Sadly, Burke doesnt get that much better the thinner Billy gets.
There is a lot of under the eyebrow glowering in this film.
The overall effect is that it leaves the film feeling pretty, well, thin.
A King thing:Retribution.
His collection of four novellas,Full Dark No Stars, deals with this theme of retribution.
Join me next time, Constant Reader, forThe Night Flier.
