Stephen Kings Thinner, commonly mistaken for a mediocre movie, is in fact a so-bad-it's-great masterpiece. The plot is simple enough: Billy is an overweight attorney who specialises in defending non-threatening Mafia members (from Maine). One night he accidentally runs over and kills an old gypsy woman with his car as his wife is giving him oral pleasure. This, in turn, brings on the wrath of the woman's dad, inspiring him to curse bulky Billy so that he looses weight until he wastes away and dies. After some help from his mob friends, Billy is able to get the gypsy man to lift the curse. He explains that he cannot remove the curse but it can be transferred to another. He mixes Billy's blood into a strawberry pie while chanting a gypsy spell. He states that the pie must be consumed by an unsuspecting person causing painful but rapid death. When he arrives home he tells his wife Heidi (who he has come to blame for his predicament) that he has a surprise for her which happens to be her favorite, strawberry pie. He tells her to have a piece which she delightfully accepts. The next morning, he awakes to find Heidi's desiccated corpse next to him. Initially gleeful to be free of the curse and of his disloyal wife, he goes downstairs and finds to his horror that his daughter had eaten some of the pie for breakfast. In King's novel, Billy then eats the pie himself. However, in the movie, he gives a slice to the man his wife has been having an affair with. In either version it's a pretty twisted way to end things. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNFwxP3s1Zg
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