John Carpenter, The real horror master!

Rating: 8/10 (6 April 2009)

John Carpenter doesn't just push the cinematic envelop, he rips it open and reads the letter! The Thing has to be one of the best horror movies I've ever seen. Graphics were simply amazing considering the technology they had in 1982. The film's special effects were simultaneously lauded and lambasted for being technically brilliant but visually repulsive. Even Film critic Roger Ebert called the special effects "among the most elaborate, nauseating, and horrifying sights yet achieved by Hollywood's new generation of visual magicians", and called the film itself "a great barf-bag movie" Sadly The Thing fared poorly at the box office. It was released on June 25, 1982 in 840 theaters and was issued a "R" rating by the MPAA. The film grossed $3.1 million on its opening weekend. It went on to make $13.7 million in North America. Carpenter and several writers who have covered him, such as Michelle Le Blanc and Colin Odell, have speculated that this was due to the release of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial two weeks later, with its more optimistic scenario of alien visitation.
Technically brilliant as said before, this movie contains some of the grossest scenes in cinematic history! Such as the dog ripping is own face open and then off to reveal a hybrid 'Thing' Dog. Attacking and swallowing the other dogs. and Wilford Brimley disgusting transformation into the 'Blairmonster' (called so by the Crew). In which the man's head is detached (by itself) and dropped to the floor, where it then grows spider legs and tries to crawl away but not fast enough before McReady (Kurt Russell) blasts it with a flamethrower.
This movie was nauseating and yet, overall unbelievably entertaining! I would gladly recommend this movie to any horror buff's who have not yet seen this cinematic Masterpiece! 8 out of 10 stars!