The Thing (John Carpenter version)
Probably not the best choice of film to be watching when you?re all alone on an ill-lit evening, but I had a good time nonetheless. Hard to believe that this was so reviled upon its initial release in the early 80s, because it is, quite frankly, my idea of the perfect horror film. There are a handful of pretty gruesome and ugly moments therein, but they?re few and far between, with much of the terror being milked from sheer anticipation. The story is involving enough to be genuinely scary, but it?s also a lot of fun, the ending is interesting and nicely ambiguous, and those tangible Thing puppets, though fairly obvious, could still take on most CGI monsters any day.
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