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Rating: 8/10 (20 June 2019)

I have set myself a mission to watch every horror movie on netflix. I have seen terrible movies such as sinister, the bye bye man, the visit and more. It has been a joy and a relief to finally watch this movie to catch a well deserved break.
The thing is a movie about a group of researchers that are stranded at their base and come into contact with a previously frozen alien that eats other lifeforms in order to replicate their body and voice. This leads to the researchers to become very paranoid when they figure out what the creature is all about as they are left wondering if one of them is the said creature.
All the actors have amazing roles and all play their characters amazingly well and despite this film being 37 years old it still works!
The way everything was shot was pleasing i loved the transitions from scene to scene and it was good to see how they made use of all the angles they had.
The special effects were very good particularly the fire and explosions, of course the thing (alien) looked very... 80's... It was still horror inducing and the imagery was very disturbing the thought of human heads warping like that so unnaturally and i especially loved when Macready had everyone tied up to test the blood and when palmers was tested he became a horrific mess of flesh. It was a shock to find out palmer was the thing as i never even thought twice about him i was thinking it had to be garry or windows.
It was good to see the characters fight against each other and see how some were beginning to lose their sanity over the paranoia of being stranded and knowing somewhere is a shape shifting alien that wants to eat you with his weird, slimy tentacles.
The movie really didn't do anything wrong for me, the pacing was good and steady it didnt overstay it's welcome and it was tense without relying solely on jumpscares like a lot of movies today, it was honestly so refreshing to see a horror movie not end in one final not scary jumpscare before the credits roll.
Despite the film not doing anything wrong and me being deeply engrossed in the story there was something missing from it, but i don't quite know what.
The film is very worth watching and will keep you very entertained.