Who Can You Trust?

Rating: Null/10 (21 May 2001)

In 1951 Howard Hawks and Christian Nyby made a wonderful science fiction film called The Thing From Another World(known to many simply as The Thing.) This film served as the impetus for horror director John Carpenter to make a remake. Carpenter makes the film his own, however, and rather than a remake we really have a completely different film with like elements. Whereas the first film focusses its main attentions to the division between science and military, Carpenter's film is more of a gory mystery to see who is the alien being inside. There are plenty of reviews here going into great detail about the story, etc... All I will add is that Carpenter's film is stylish, scary, well-acted by a veritable who's who of character actors like Richard Dysart, Wilfred Brimley, and many others, aided by a nice performance by Kurt Russell, and has state of the art special effects. I was mesmerized from beginning to end, and found watching the film a thoroughly entertaining time. I am always grateful to people like John Carpenter for sharing their joy and enthusiasm for the horror and science fiction genre and paying tribute to it in their own special way. A first-rate scare!