A genuine horror classic. "Your popcorn will fly!"

Rating: 10/10 (21 December 1999)

My favourite film of all time, The Thing has only recently taken it's place as a horror classic. A genuinely suspensful and terrifying, it is a paronoid masterpiece. It's better not to know too much about the plot if you haven't already seen the film, but pay attention during the sequence where MacReady threatens Childs and the others that he will blow up the camp. See how Carpenter misdirects us into believing that the threat is in one direction when it is in quite another. What more could we want from a horror film?
The blood test sequence has gone down as the most suspenseful scene in the film, but there are any number of creepy shocks awaiting the unwary viewer. So rent (or better still buy) the video or DVD, and in the words of John Carpenter, "Your popcorn will fly!"