Its impossible to put into words: THE THING is an AWESOME experience

Rating: 10/10 (8 September 2006)

Its got to be the NEW GOLDEN AGE OF HORROR: 1982. and SCI-FI. 1982 (1981, 1980) ET, The Extra-Terristrial, Poltergeist, Star Trek II-The Wrath of Kahn, Friday the 13th Part 3 in 3-D, The Gates of Hell, One Dark Night (ead and Buried, Sword and the Sorceror, Blood Beach, The Bogey Man, Zombie (re-release), all about a year old; Dawn of the Dead's about three years old as with Friday the 13th and Maniac and My Bloody Valentine, and The Shining, and Happy Birthday to Me . . . truly a GOLDEN AGE.
The Thing is an ageless, masterpiece of HORROR . . . the guy's chest turns into a mouth with ugly sharp teeth . . . and then the guy's head sprouts legs and then there's this weird Norwegian base which makes the film come off like a quasi-sequel to the 1951 film . . .TRUE HORROR . . . then there's the spaceship the big one over a thousand years old and the new one . . . MASTERPIECE OF HORRORIFIC IMAGES JOHN CARPENTER is painfully under-appreciated . . . THE THING even outdoes ET in IMDb.comes . . . HALLOWEEN and THE FOG, ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 . . . this collection of films IS CLASSSIC for our time. John Carpenter lifetime achievement award.