THE THING (John Carpenter's)

Rating: 10/10 (23 November 2008)

Even as a fan of Horror, I can tel you that there only a handful of movies worth sitting down and viewing. The rest are poorly written, filmed, and directed.
My favorite horror, monster, sci-fi, whichever you want to call them are......#1.The Thing (John Carpenter's), #2. Alien, and last but not least is #3.Jaws. There are a few others but they cannot come close to any one of those.
John Carpenter's THE THING.....what a masterpiece. Every element of the flick, was planned, shot, acted, and directed so well. When a scene opened it was shot with intent, direction, and a flow that gave perspective on the entire event at Outpost 31.
I know when that one guy fell...looked like he had heart attack. But what I saw was another infected guy that didn't know it. He was just feeling the pains of THE THING taking over parts of his body. And the doctor guy that was locked in the small place, he was obviously infected when he was doing the autopsy. So obvious.
And as for the guy who was burned. It is obvious by the way the scene was filmed that after he saw the clothing of MacCready (which meant to him that MacCready had been taken over by the thing), the one he thought for sure he could trust, he committed Suicide.
You have to love the scenery, the Isolation, the fact that all these guys have IS each other. Slowly as time goes by, and trust seems overwhelmingly more important, and less available, they are trapped in that desolate location...without contact with the outside world, as a horrific Alien creature with the ability to hide itself seemingly inside any one of them given the chance, makes your skin crawl a bit. Well not so much as INSIDE one of them but AS one of them I should say. ;)
And the "gore" Scenes, were awesome. The head walking away!!! The Chest bursting open, the finger of Blair going into the other guys face at the end, oh and when Windows was almost eaten alive, but then you can see he is being infected and transformed into one, and later flame thrower-ed. hehehe
Lord I am asking that Universal Studios would give John Carpenter the total rights to make his Sequel of THE THING. Thank you Lord for hearing my request.
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