Carpenter's best.

Rating: 9/10 (5 December 2003)

Can you believe that, when this movie was originally released, audiences despised it? An 80s remake of The Thing could very easily be a rehash of Cold War nostalgia- there's still something of a pretext about it- but the setting and effects employed here make it a horror classic. The stop-motion animation, instead of feeling dated and tired, has a more visceral impact than computer-generated FX, and the entire film is loaded with tension. And Carpenter doesn't let the movie fall back on cheap gore either: several scenes are just good, old-fashioned scary as hell.