John Carpenter's The Thing!

Rating: 10/10 (4 January 2004)

This is one of John Carpenter's best movie if not his best! In My opinion it is one of the best films to date! I don't want to spoil it for you if you haven't seen it yet but here I will say the following! Kurt Russell was very good! The other cast members including Wilford Brimley, Richard A. Dysart, Keith David, Donald Moffat, Charles Hallahan, and Richard Masur performed well! The movie has many thrilling moments and it does a great job at keeping you in suspense! I just love the unpredictableness! The film is very interesting and is quite scary at times! It has some gore and great effects! In My opinion in the very beginning before the credits where you see the space ship coming toward Earth is one of the greatest special effects of all time and then you see the fantastic Thing logo with such chilling music which is one of the greatest title sequences ever! Morricone's score is very good and it has that great John Carpenter sound! Carpenter directed this greatly and I love how he remade the scenes of the ship in the ice and the hole in the ice block that belonged to the missing corpse! The artwork on the movie box is excellent! If you love John Carpenter, Kurt Russell, the other cast members mentioned above, horror, action, sci-fi, thrilling, suspense, and alien movies then this is the perfect movie to watch! Strongly recommended!
Movie Nuttball's NOTE:
I also recommend these John Carpenter films: Big Trouble in Little China, Halloween, The Fog, Starman, Christine, Village of the Damned, and They Live!
If you like alien movies I also recommend the following films: The Thing from another World, The War of the Worlds, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The UFO Incident, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. the Extra- Terrestrial, Time Walker, Mac and Me, Explorers, Invaders from Mars, Communion, Fire in the Sky, Independence Day, The Arrival, Mars Attacks! Stephen King's Dreamcatcher, Xtro 3: Watch the Skies, The Puppet Masters, Life Form, The X-Files: Fight the Future, Signs, Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, Predator, Predator 2, The entire Star Wars saga (A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, The Return of the Jedi, The Phantom Menace, & Attack of the Clones), the entire Star Trek movie saga (Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Wrath of Khan, The Search for Spock, The Voyage Home, The Final Frontier, The Undiscovered Country, Generations, First Contact, Insurrection, & Nemesis) and Stephen King's IT!