...the best horror film of all-time.

Rating: 10/10 (24 January 1999)

I disagree with critics who regard the lame original of this film as superior. The 1980s version of "The Thing" is not only the best of all the works of John Carpenter but the best horror film of all-time, in my opinion. Kurt Russell and Wilford Brimley are two among a research team in remote Antarctica. When a "nearby" Norweigan camp seems to have gone berserk, an investigation reveals that they had dug up an alien from outer space capable of absorbing and imitating any life form. Who is human and who is "the thing"?