The Greatest Horror Film of All Time

Rating: Null/10 (12 May 2004)

How can a film be so brilliant and so scary at the same time. All in the name of John Carpenter who couldn't put a foot wrong with his movies till the nineties turned up. Halloween, Assault on Precinct 13, Big Trouble in Little China, Escape from New York, Star Man, They Live, The Fog, Dark Star and Christine, the list is endless but his most claustrophobic classic horror film ever made. It brings a whole new meaning to the word horror and a whole new world of how a creature should look in a movie like this. John Carpenter was the most creative and inventive director of the 70's to the mid eighties. Now he is struggling to make a film to match up with his others but that's the way it is with directors. Carpenter spent so much time on doing things to his films back then his movies now look tired and old and to put it nicely `crap'. Looking back on The Thing it reminds you of his brilliance and how his films starring Kurt Russell were always a success and cult classics.
The Thing must go down as the greatest horror film of all time because that is what it is whether you disagree or not. What we have to remember is that directors come and go and some stay for a while and Carpenter is definitely in the stay for a while category but how long that will last all depends on whether we ever see anything like what The Thing was and that's sheer brilliance.