Still my favorite movie of all time.

Rating: 10/10 (27 March 2020)

Horror and thriller doesn't get any better than The Thing. There are so many great aspects such as how the people die, how the people turn against each other, and how the people reflect on what could happen next.
However, the part that makes The Thing such a gem is that the characters don't make any dumb decisions. If they do, it's either a very minor mistake, or it doesn't factor into the group as a whole (like when Fuchs follows the thing outside. We don't actually know what happened to him, but he was found burned). The smart decisions are what keep the characters alive, but the thing is so powerful that it can work its way through it and still penetrate them. In the end, however, the thing is outsmarted, blown up, and only two people survive (one of them could be an imitation).