Beautiful filmmaking. What a horror film should be.

Rating: Null/10 (9 January 2001)

The Thing is a masterpiece of suspense, horror, and gore. No other movie (with the exception of the first three Living Dead movies) has matched The Thing in taking these three elements and blending them into not only a horror film, but a timeless piece of filmaking art. The seclusion, the hopelessness, the creeping terror of not knowing who is who...all of these add up to what modern horror films should take notes from. Carpenter hit his mark and the pinnacle of the art with this movie. It has been compared to Alien several times. But, while Alien is a work of art...its a different kind of style in which the movie was filmed. The Thing begins with a downward spiral into terror and never lets its foot off the gas. The acting is superb, the setting is perfect, the special effects are some that even today cannot be rivaled by CGI, and the tension ever present. If you've never seen it, see it. If you have, see it again.