Another Halloween, another Stephen King adaptation. This time out, it's more precisely a Richard Bachman (the pseudonym under which King's book was or

Movie Review: 'Stephen King's Thinner'

A movie based on a Stephen King work is a little like Kathy Bates in "Misery"--always unpredictable, and occasionally like a sledgehammer to the ankles.

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Reduced to some raw-boned ideas, the film version of "Stephen King's Thinner" is horror lite. This is a meat and potatoes genre outing rich on starch but sh...