Carpenter's best

Rating: 9/10 (3 January 2006)

The terror, panic, and paranoia in this film has been matched by no other. The arctic setting made it better because there literally was no escape. And you obviously spent most of the film trying to figure out who was infected.
A great cast. The only semi-dud was Richard Masur (Clark) sleepwalking through his role. Although he usually does that in most his films and it served as a good balance for the other intense characters like Childs, Windows, (where did they get these names?) and Mac. Kurt Russell was perfect in the lead but Donald Moffat nearly stole this film as the Captain. An excellent mix of personalities all around. The gore effects might be too much for some though.
An added bit of trivia. The late Charles Hallahan (Norris) went to college with my parents. I don't mean they just went to the same school. They knew each other. I just thought that was worth a mention.