Otherness Cannot Live

Rating: 8/10 (12 July 2015)

The Thing is Other to, at the very least, mammalian life-forms on Earth. They have been frozen away in the depths for the last 100,000 years at least and now that they are out they are trying to figure out their place on an unknown world. If they had crash-landed further north how would the evolution of our planet been different?
For more of this kind of perspective you should do a search for the Clarkesworld short story by Peter Watts that moves through the storyline from the perspective of The Thing.
Aside from human speculation about alien thought the film is certainly a classic in the sci-fi horror genre. It has similarities to Alien in both plot-line and special effects. The thing the movie lacks is a sense of humor. I like that in a good horror flick.