Vastly underrated at the time of its release, John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing’ was torn apart by the critics and tanked. Although it’s a remake, it’s vintage Carpenter - eerie, inexplicably well-cast with sincere performances from often-overlooked character actors, gross blood-and-guts “practical” effects (i.e. “before computers”), strangely simple and flimsy under too much scrutiny - it’s fucking awesome and gets better every time I watch it, which I did last night at 1AM as I spotted it on cable. It’s available in HD now on Blu Ray and I might just have to pull the trigger.
Posted by Bill McMullen on August 20, 2009 at 01:49 AM
