A STONE-COLD CLASSIC!!! CARPENTER IS THE GREATEST DIRECTOR EVER.

Rating: 10/10 (15 August 2018)

The Thing is a true classic movie & has become so well loved & has a huge fan base & i can see why!!!
I love this film, the whole creepy atmosphere & dark cinematography by the legend Dean Cundy is superb & the awesome music by Carpenter is excellent & of course the AMAZING practical FX & the awesome casting.........except it's missing the perfect guy for this film the legendary Horror icon TOM ATKINS!!! it makes No sense as to why he's not cast? I mean he was good friends with John Carpenter at the time he had just starred in carpenters The Fog (1980) & Escape from New York (1981) & Tom said in an interview that he had discussed how much he loved the 50's original film & so did carpenter, so they talked about the movie & John must've known how excited Tom would have been to be apart of it & yet he cast every other guy but him? Makes No sense & Tom Atkins would have lifted the movie even more in quality, he would have been the best in it!!! Anyway that was a huge missed opportunity.
The cast is an ensemble cast of know the face actors & Carpenter regulars, i love the paranoid mood of the movie & the thick Atmosphere of dread that hangs over the film, this is one of Carpenters best films!!!
I used to watch this on video & absolutely loved everything about it & i still do!!! "The Thing" yes it's a classic gory horror film & many class this as Carpenters masterpiece, my personal fave carpenter movie is "THE FOG (1980)" but i can see why many love this great movie, it's in my top 5 of Carpenters films & in my all time favourite top 20 films list.
The always great "Kurt Russell" gives a solid performance & has created another Classic character as he did in other John Carpenter films such as "Escape from New York" & "Big Trouble in little China" as we know Carpenter & kurt work perfectly together.
Kurt Russell is awesome,cool & iconic as "Mcready" & the location is isolated & scary & like i said the fx are amazing so much better than the silly cheap looking c.g.i today!!!
The Thing is a Horror CLASSIC.
I love John Carpenter films & i consider him my favourite Director.
All in all this 1982 sci-fi Horror is a Classic of it's genre & is one of Carpenters best films!!!
Check out the equally excellent "The Thing" 2011 prequel, it's just as great & surprisingly still very atmospheric & exciting.