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Three-hundred-pound lawyer uses his connections to avoid criminal charges for the vehicular death of a gypsy woman, prompting the woman's father to take matters into his own hands -- by cursing the lawyer to become thinner each day until the weight loss kills him. Good idea (believe it or not) gets hopelessly old-fashioned 1950's horror comic book treatment, resulting in a juvenile and unsatisfying might-have-been, not helped in the least by the de rigueur twist ending. On the plus side, Kari Wuhrer, on the few occasions when she isn't snarling or spitting, certainly photographs well. Based on one of Stephen King's Richard Bachman books. (It's tempting to say this film is about as bright as the poster for it. The curse -- losing weight -- has nothing whatever to do with the crime -- vehicular manslaughter. What the copywriter meant to say was, "Let the curse fit the criminal.")
Three-hundred-pound lawyer uses his connections to avoid criminal charges for the vehicular death of a gypsy woman, prompting the woman's father to take matters into his own hands -- by cursing the lawyer to become thinner each day until the weight loss kills him. Good idea (believe it or not) gets hopelessly old-fashioned 1950's horror comic book treatment, resulting in a juvenile and unsatisfying might-have-been, not helped in the least by the de rigueur twist ending. On the plus side, Kari Wuhrer, on the few occasions when she isn't snarling or spitting, certainly photographs well. Based on one of Stephen King's Richard Bachman books. (It's tempting to say this film is about as bright as the poster for it. The curse -- losing weight -- has nothing whatever to do with the crime -- vehicular manslaughter. What the copywriter meant to say was, "Let the curse fit the criminal.")