10 Stephen King Movie Adaptations That Deserve A Remake

Stephen King wrote the novel Thinner under his Richard Bachman pseudonym, and it was the book which would eventually out him as being both writers (a concept he would explore further in his later novel The Dark Half). The movie arrived over a decade later in 1996 and was directed by the legendary Tom Holland (Fright Night/Child’s Play), but is another one of King’s deeper cuts that has never really stood the test of time, or come to be considered a classic.

However, the premise of the story is certainly intriguing enough to be worth revisiting, and tells the tale of Billy Halleck, an obese lawyer with mob connections, who accidentally kills a Romani woman while driving home drunk one night. He manages to avoid punishment in the courts by using his connections in the local legal system, however after being acquitted he is approached by the father of the girl he has killed, and a curse is placed on him which sees him lose weight at an alarming and uncontrollable rate.

The character then becomes embroiled in a race against time to free himself of the curse before he wastes away to nothing. Thinner is a quick paced movie which has since slipped into obscurity, and it does unfortunately fall down a little visually with the body prosthetics used on the character early on in the film, which haven't aged well.