John Carpenters the Thing.

I remember staying up late watching this wicked flick on Tv3 when I was a young lad. Its was action packed  ,gory  and packed with suspenseful  but what got me was the alien. It wasent just one creature like the xenomorph or Predator its was anything it wanted to be.I picked it up on VHS years later and my love for the movie grew. John Carpenters the Thing was a remake of the 50's movie from Howard Hawks the Thing from another world with itself is an adaption of John W. Campbell book Who goes there?

Hawks for his movie dropped the shape shifting aspect of creature for a more B-movie monster. Carpenter loved the concept and made it the focal point of his movie. What if your trapped in a place, isolated and those around you are not as they seem.

Set in the Antartic in the winter of 1982 at a U.S research station 31 the movie plonks us into the action in a what the fuck moment when a dog is chased in to the camp buy what would seem to be stir crazy Norwegians. Shit goes from bad to worse resulting in some of the U.S outpost traveling to the Norwegian base and finding that some very crazy shit took place there. They return and some realise that some people are not what they seem. This plays out paranoia and suspense like nobodies business. The men soon turn on each other and one buy one the team is picked off either buy the creature or the men them selves.

This is one of my top fave movies of all time, The acting is wicked, the music is amazing but what else would you expect from Ennio Morricone, the effect while not as flashy today a still the fucking bomb. Rob Bottin should have gone on to do bigger things...no pun intened. This was John Carpenter at his A game and yet another great collabortation with the ever awesome Kurt Russel as McReady. The Ending of the movie is fantastic...It makes you wonder who came out on top.

The ending along with the fact this movie came out in 82 the same time as a friendly alien called E.T showed up did cause issues for its success and the film didnt do well at all. Over the years it found a massive cult following spawning a video game, a range of comic books and a prequel movie in 2011 but more about them later.

So if your like me and your a huge Sci-fi and horror fan .....you need to see this movie...its mandatory and if you dont think so well then "You gotta be fucking kidding!"