I liked The Thing and its very effective mix of paranoia and horror, although I wouldn’t say it’s a favorite movie of mine, and the creature sfx, as good as it was in 1982, looks a little amateurish these days. CGI has just moved too far ahead.
TreacherousCretin:
Check this out: a 2010 short story, giving us insights into the the '82 film from the Thing’s point of view.
https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/
The Things
I’d read that before, and it’s terrific. And the last line… brrr!
Some previous SDMB threads that may be of interest:
I recall Roger Ebert calling this movie “the barf bag movie of the summer.” I saw it at a drive-in, and it did kinda put me off my buttered popcorn. Some years later, I found a hardback book in a used book store titled “It Came from Hollywood,” which contains the original stores on which many Hollywood sci-fi classics were based, including “Who Goes There,” the basis of “The Thing.” The original story is extremely well-written and descriptive, and Carpenter’s movie follows the story very clos…
It’s on right now. I tried watching it once before but the early dog kennel scene freaked me right the fuck out and I turned it off.
[Bender voice]I’m really gonna do it! Don’t try to stop me!*
I’m going to watch this sucker. I loved the original The Thing, and I love Alien, so why do I have trouble with this one?
Of course I’m also recording it, too, in case I wuss out at some point. I am home alone, after all.
The Thing has been playing everyday non stop for a month and a half. I love it and have it going on the background often. But to this day I have no idea what they were even doing at the National Science Institute Station 4 in the first place.
R.J. MacReady - a helicopter pilot, fine.
Dr. Blair - makes sense to have a doc.
Windows - sure, radio operator
Dr. Copper - two doctors?
Vance Norris - kennel master?
T.K. Carter - cook?
Palmer - ?
Childs - ?
George Bennings - ?
Clark - ?
Garr…
So, which is better and why?
Are there other horror movies of the “predator kills a group one by one” kind that are equally good? Note that I said “equally good”, I know there are plenty of horror movies that involve a predator killing a group one by one.