In 1982, John Carpenter directed arguably the greatest movie of his career, The Thing. Though it was a critical and box office bomb at the time, it has since become an iconic horror classic, and widely considered the best horror remake ever made. Not only that, but The Thing was even better than the film it was copying, 1951's Howard Hawks-helmed monster movie The Thing from Another World. Hawks made a fine movie that dug into the current communist-fueled fears of the unknown, but Carpenter's version was more in line with the source material, John W. Campbell Jr's novella Who Goes There? The Thing also gave audiences one of our greatest badasses in Kurt Russell's R.J. MacReady. Then there were the jaw-dropping practical effects from Rob Bottin. He made the alien an unforgettable shape-shifting creature to be feared. As scary as it was though, the alien from The Thing from Another World is even scarier, not in its design (that would be impossible) but in how it is presented.
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