Thanks to John Carpenter By Way of Howard Hawks

Rating: 4/10 (5 March 2019)

Tarantino's films have always been highly derivative, with in his case, a particularly powerful influence from the horror, gangster, action, Science Fiction and even Kung Fu genera films (many of them trashy) put out during the 70s and 80s... due in large part to his more than usual exposure acquired (as he seemed to believe that recommendations were part of his job), while working as a video store clerk during that era.
He has said as much himself, many times, being uncommonly open and honest about it, while even giving specific credit to many of the individual films and directors, by name, who and which were directly inspirational.
In other words the ones he stole from.
Who in their turn, may have stolen or been stolen from somebody else, while perhaps being less honest about it. Hey, which every writer director film maker and studio does as a matter of routine, whether by repeatedly pumping out some formula in film after film, or in cases where the theft is so obvious it can't be disguised, perhaps referring to an homage, or bereft of any other idea, in complete unmitigated purloinment even going so far as to use the same title (done all too often, and badly)? They call it a remake.
And I believe when you look at this latest film offering, and think about it, and if you're at all familiar with the efforts of John Carpenter who himself, much like Tarantino, was strongly influenced by the work of others, particularly Hitchcock, almost to the point of parody in a couple of instances... you'll see his remake version of Howard Hawks's (a director famous for having twice remade versions of one of his own films)* classic Sci-Fi offering of the early 50s, "The Thing". With Tarentino even going so far as to cast the main protagonist in that classic re-make of a classic, Kurt Russell, as one of the primary characters in this not exactly a remake but close enough to the Carpenter version to almost call it so.
I could go on and make a case for this comparison, and if I were a professional reviewer I would of course be obliged to, but I think I'm so right about this observation, that my making the connection here to anyone familiar with those films if they didn't catch it themselves, will see the strong obvious undeniable parallels and striking similarities right away.
* "Rio Bravo" becoming "El Dorado" being transformed as "Rio Lobo" all with John Wayne.