John Carpenter rules.  Period.  Let's look at his resume real quick; Halloween, Escape From New York, The Fog, Big Trouble in Little China, and the mother f$*@ing Thing!  In my book, the Thing has everything; great special effects, great acting, great characters, great atmosphere, and the most important thing in a horror movie, it's scary.

Kurt Russel and crew are scientists stationed in Antarctica who come in contact with a shape shifting alien that assumes the identity of the people it kills.  Once the Thing starts turning the crew into, well, Things, you don't know who's human and who's an alien.  The film really is a guessing game up until the end, and even then, you don't know if the survivors are humans or aliens.  I know I mentioned this earlier, but the special effects in the Thing are some of the best captured on film.  There's a great scene where a character is going into cardiac arrest and as he's being defibrillated, his chest opens up and bites the hands off of the person doing the defibrillation (I sure hope I spelled those two words right!).

The Thing is a movie that never gets old.  In a genre that has a lot of crappy, forgettable movies, the Thing is a film that once watched will permanently cement itself into your brain.  You won't feel comfortable around anyone, ever again!  Who knows, maybe Mike McKelly and Stefani Bishop are things!  That's the staying power that the Thing will have on you.  You will never feel safe alone with another human being, ever again.  And that my friends, is f*$&ing terrifying.

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