YMMV / Thinner

• Alternative Character Interpretation: The ending can be deeply affected in both versions depending on whether The pie is only cursed to kill the first person who eats it, the next person who eats it (if the last person is still alive), or everyone that eats it. Notably It doesn't seem to show signs of the curse struggling to escape it the next morning.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • A lot of people like Billy's daughter Linda for being one of the least morally compromised characters in the story.
  • Like what he does or not, Richie Ginelli might be the best liked character in the story for his sheer frightening competence and Agent Mulder reaction to the curse.
  • Gina, the sultry, slingshot-wielding Dragon-in-Chief of the Lemke clan.
• Fanon: Neither the book or film reveals exactly what Chief Hopley's curse was, but a common theory even mentioned on some websites (including the book's Wikipedia page at one point) is "Leper."
• Harsher in Hindsight: The Police Chief who helped Halleck get away with the crime, Duncan Hopely, ends up being cursed by the Romani with large boils all over his body and ends up shooting himself in the head rather than living the gruesome and horrifying existence that he would be living. Several years after the movie's premiere, his actor, Daniel von Bargen, did the exact same thing due to similar reasons (albeit due to diabetes, already having had a leg amputated, and facing more amputations, and he did survive, at least for another three years.)
• Hilarious in Hindsight: One reader stated that "This is what Stephen King would write if he could really write."
• Narm: Discussed trope. In one scene, Ginelli uses packing tape to secure a man to a tree. The narration acknowledges that taping someone to a tree sounds dumb, but goes on to point out how strong packing tape actually is, and how close to impossible escaping from those bindings would actually be.
• One-Scene Wonder: Duncan Hopley only has one scene in the book (in the movie he has more but they're shorter) but it is immensely memorable given the misery and Body Horror his curse is inflicting and how Duncan acknowledges his belief that the Roma's vengeance towards him, Billy and Harry is justified.
• Retroactive Recognition: Bethany Joy Lenz as Billy's beloved daughter Linda.
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: In the book Creepshows: The Illustrated Stephen King Movie Guide, author Stephen Graham Jones says that the movie's critical failure and near financial failure was based on the fact that the "mean-spirited film did not have one single likable character."
• Values Dissonance: The portrayal of the Romani in this book, and its subsequent movie adaptation, hasn't aged particularly well to say the least.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: The practical effects, camerawork, and prosthetics used to make Robert John Burke's appearance fluctuate from massively obese (a Fat Suit and Scully Boxes were copiously utilized to emphasize Billy's girth and frame looming over virtually everyone) to frighteningly skeletal (using facial prosthetics that ironically thickened Burke's face to make him appear gaunt in conjunction with forced perspective camerawork to give the illusion of depth, alongside the Boring, but Practical method of hiring an exceptionally skinny stuntman to stand-in for Burke during long shots). As a matter of fact, the only time you see Robert John Burke's real face is during the ending... and it is absolutely jarring to see him without the layers of makeup.

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