damn, don't you people read books?

Rating: 10/10 (12 September 2003)

the thing is a FAR better movie adaption of the original John W Campbell Jr/Don A. Stuart story "Who Goes There?". Carpenter's film version actually FOLLOWS the original story (though in an updated 1980s setting), with the alien being a shape shifter that consumes its victim's cells and morphs and merges or splits into two. The 1951 version is a shallow adaption of the original story and has nothing of the creepiness and gracious gore of the original. What the hell is wrong with you people? The Thing a cheap alien knockoff? READ THE ORIGINAL STORY. good god. some people...