It scared the hell out me when I was a kid...

Rating: Null/10 (2 November 2001)

, but then again so did the old guy from Poltergeist II. Unlike that flick though, The Thing still manages to hold up in the horror department due largely in my opinion to three things: Its gruesomely creative effects, an eerie and scary setting, and possibly its tense and involving storyline. Hell, it even made Wilfred Brimley scary. Trust me if you like old school horror films, not the overly derivative and boring stalker killing dozens upon dozens of uninteresting teenagers who seem to think sex and booze are the national pass time, pick up the DVD( Like Halloween widescreen is the only way to go to get the true effect of Carpenters film ). You probably wouldn't be disappointed.