Thoughts on The Thing

Rating: 10/10 (23 April 2005)

This film is easily the best film about paranoia I have ever seen.
The film, about a shape-shifting, predatory alien that takes over any animal it eats and perfectly duplicates it, and endlessly reproduces as long as prey is available, is very frightening for its potential.
The Thing seems to be a biological weapon from another world. Trapped in Antarctica far from the coast, it schemes to escape the polar stations where it is trapped. If it does so, every animal on Earth, including every human, faces extinction in a matter of a few years. Once it gets to a bird, a seal, a whale or a penguin, its escape is assured.
We never see the true form of The Thing, though in WHO GOES THERE it was described as having three hate-filled red eyes.
The Thing is totally and horribly hostile, and intelligent as well, which makes it a terrifying opponent.
This movie gets my thumbs up as one of the best horror films ever made.
MtLoweMan