Horror with capital H

Rating: 9/10 (20 November 2005)

On the basis of given scares, The Thing pretty much is the only film that has managed to scare me on my adult age. Sure, there are some films that are just creepy, but this has managed to scare the life out of me.
The story goes: A group of scientist find a spaceship buried deep in the ices of Antarctic and decide to drag a frozen alien back to their base. This thing isn't dead and soon it begins to take the appearances of the scientist and their dogs. Soon everyone suspects everyone. Who is human and who is alien.
When you look at the effects it's surprising how well the grotesque puppets have taken the stand of time: they look slimy and quite living. Music gives a creepy atmosphere to film and acting is pretty good, Kurt Russel manages to do one of his best performances in this film.
The Thing certainly is from the better of John Carpenter, who has a knack of doing either great films or turkeys.