Stephen King's "Thinner"

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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Dark August

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Animated — 1 year ago(March 30, 2025 10:02 AM)

The plot outline of this little-known movie sure sounds a lot like Stephen King's "Thinner".

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HollyJollyHanukka — 1 year ago(March 30, 2025 03:05 PM)

You might consider posting a link so we can evaluate and comment.
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Animated — 1 year ago(March 31, 2025 02:53 AM)

Both movies have IMDb pages, obviously. The plot outline of
Dark August
is as follows: "A man accidentally runs down a young girl and has a curse placed on him by the girl's father, an occultist. He goes to a spiritualist for help in fighting the curse." This sounds very much like
Thinner
, except that in
Thinner
the main character goes to a mobster for help.

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Chicxulub — 1 year ago(March 31, 2025 04:28 AM)

Why not watch it and come back with compare and contrast essay

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Animated — 1 year ago(March 31, 2025 04:45 AM)

I was hoping somebody might have done that already, but I can't find any comparisons online.

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Chicxulub — 1 year ago(March 31, 2025 05:11 AM)

Seems rather obscure…released 7 or 8 years before the Thinner novel, and 2 decades before the film version. Maybe you've stumbled onto plagiarism.

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HollyJollyHanukka — 12 months ago(March 31, 2025 02:08 PM)

A link would have been helpful. From the plot description, it does sound like Thinner.
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Animated — 12 months ago(March 31, 2025 11:18 PM)

A link would have been helpful.
There is a link to
Dark August
at the top of this messageboard (as with any movie on Filmboards). Perhaps you didn't see that. In any case, it's a simple matter to look up a movie on IMDb and Wikipedia.