Who Goes There?
Bought a copy of John Carpenter's The Thing yesterday. That is my all-time favorite horror movie. 1982. When monster effects were still done with latex. Some movies can't make it work, but The Thing does. And it shouldn't be a surprise---Stan Winston was on the staff.
Contrary to what a lot of people think, The Thing is not a remake of The Thing from Another World. It's based on the original novella by Joseph Campbell (writing as Don Stuart) called Who Goes There. The story, too, was about a shapeshifting alien, but it was also about the paranoia of men who don't know who is human and who is a horror from another world.
Carpenter's movie captures this perfectly. It's scary as hell. Even at the end of the movie, once the monster is finally dead, MacReady and Childs don't know if they can trust each other. As the audience, we feel safe about Mac, whom we have just witnessed in the final battle. But where did Childs go? Where was he in the intervening time.
Heh.
Contrary to what a lot of people think, The Thing is not a remake of The Thing from Another World. It's based on the original novella by Joseph Campbell (writing as Don Stuart) called Who Goes There. The story, too, was about a shapeshifting alien, but it was also about the paranoia of men who don't know who is human and who is a horror from another world.
Carpenter's movie captures this perfectly. It's scary as hell. Even at the end of the movie, once the monster is finally dead, MacReady and Childs don't know if they can trust each other. As the audience, we feel safe about Mac, whom we have just witnessed in the final battle. But where did Childs go? Where was he in the intervening time.
Heh.