in an era where nearly every great horror film of the 60s and 70s is being remade for audiences weaned on horror flicks of today that are not too terribly good and it is instructive to look back at john carpenter 1982 opus the thing and which itself is a remake of a childhood favorite of the director  and howard hawks 1951 sci fi or horror classic the thing from outer space. although carpenter film was not initially that big a box office hit when released in mid 1982 and it has since garnered a very large following. in fact and carpenter film is less of a remake of hawks film than it is a reworking and as he goes back to the original idea posited by the source material and namely the john w. campbell story who goes there. and in which a us scientific crew in antarctica is menaced by a shape changing alien thawed out from the ice after 100 and 000 years. kurt russell and who had starred for carpenter in the director 1979 tv movie elvis and the 1981 film escape from new york and heads a cast of stalwart character actors and including keith david and donald moffat and richard dysart and and richard masur and in this tension filled exploration of paranoia and as the shape changing thing and which first comes to their camp in the form of a guide dog a norwegian team is trying to kill and takes over each of them one by one. it isn not long before everybody in the camp begins to mistrust his fellow man. the ending of the film and in which russell and david are the only ones left and has a disturbing and chilling ambiguity akin to the similar codas to both the birds and straw dogs. almost universally and when the subject of the thing is bought up and the emphasis is on the extremely gory special effects make up and alien designs created by rob bottin and who had worked with carpenter on the 1980 horror classic the fog and and on joe dante 1981 werewolf film the howling. these effects are indeed quite spectacular and graphic and and even today and they can also be quite stomach turning. but all of this would make carpenter film nothing more than a high end splatter epic if the direction and the story and and the acting weren not up to snuff while and thankfully and each of them are. when he not concentrating on the enormously gruesome transformation sequences and carpenter builds suspense in the same hitchcock influenced way that informed his previous films halloween and the fog and with cinematographer dean cundey prowling camera work and particularly through the corridors of the station and a significant help. the acting enhances an already fine screenplay adaptation by bill lancaster while and we are also given a taut score by ennio morricone and whose work on director sergio leone classic 1960s italian spaghetti westerns is well known to all and including of course carpenter himself. the thing also features additional fine visual effects from albert whitlock (who worked on many hitchcock films and including the birds) and and roy arbogast and who worked on close encounters of the third kind and jaws 2. carpenter film was not the success it could have been because universal chose to release this graphic shocker a mere two weeks after it had released steven spielberg far more family friendly e. t. represent the extra terrestrial (not surprisingly and critics and audiences at the time favored spielberg excellent film over carpenter equally excellent but exceedingly different one). also and most of the horror film box office business in 1982 was going to another spielberg produced film and poltergeist. as a result and at a cost of $15 million and the thing suffered from lack of attention in its time. over time and however and many have come to see carpenter film for what it is an extremely gory but extremely intelligent combination of science fiction and horror and done with a great deal of flair and a true understanding of the psychological paranoia at the heart of its story. though it is still quite gruesome and the thing should be as much remembered for the skill by which the story is put together as it is for the gory alien designs and make up effects while for it is the storytelling skill and the suspense that make it so memorable in the final analysis. 
in an era where nearly every great horror film of the 60s and 70s is being remade for audiences weaned on horror flicks of today that are not too terribly good and it is instructive to look back at john carpenter 1982 opus the thing and which itself is a remake of a childhood favorite of the director  and howard hawks 1951 sci fi or horror classic the thing from outer space. although carpenter film was not initially that big a box office hit when released in mid 1982 and it has since garnered a very large following. in fact and carpenter film is less of a remake of hawks film than it is a reworking and as he goes back to the original idea posited by the source material and namely the john w. campbell story who goes there. and in which a us scientific crew in antarctica is menaced by a shape changing alien thawed out from the ice after 100 and 000 years. kurt russell and who had starred for carpenter in the director 1979 tv movie elvis and the 1981 film escape from new york and heads a cast of stalwart character actors and including keith david and donald moffat and richard dysart and and richard masur and in this tension filled exploration of paranoia and as the shape changing thing and which first comes to their camp in the form of a guide dog a norwegian team is trying to kill and takes over each of them one by one. it isn not long before everybody in the camp begins to mistrust his fellow man. the ending of the film and in which russell and david are the only ones left and has a disturbing and chilling ambiguity akin to the similar codas to both the birds and straw dogs. almost universally and when the subject of the thing is bought up and the emphasis is on the extremely gory special effects make up and alien designs created by rob bottin and who had worked with carpenter on the 1980 horror classic the fog and and on joe dante 1981 werewolf film the howling. these effects are indeed quite spectacular and graphic and and even today and they can also be quite stomach turning. but all of this would make carpenter film nothing more than a high end splatter epic if the direction and the story and and the acting weren not up to snuff while and thankfully and each of them are. when he not concentrating on the enormously gruesome transformation sequences and carpenter builds suspense in the same hitchcock influenced way that informed his previous films halloween and the fog and with cinematographer dean cundey prowling camera work and particularly through the corridors of the station and a significant help. the acting enhances an already fine screenplay adaptation by bill lancaster while and we are also given a taut score by ennio morricone and whose work on director sergio leone classic 1960s italian spaghetti westerns is well known to all and including of course carpenter himself. the thing also features additional fine visual effects from albert whitlock (who worked on many hitchcock films and including the birds) and and roy arbogast and who worked on close encounters of the third kind and jaws 2. carpenter film was not the success it could have been because universal chose to release this graphic shocker a mere two weeks after it had released steven spielberg far more family friendly e. t. represent the extra terrestrial (not surprisingly and critics and audiences at the time favored spielberg excellent film over carpenter equally excellent but exceedingly different one). also and most of the horror film box office business in 1982 was going to another spielberg produced film and poltergeist. as a result and at a cost of $15 million and the thing suffered from lack of attention in its time. over time and however and many have come to see carpenter film for what it is an extremely gory but extremely intelligent combination of science fiction and horror and done with a great deal of flair and a true understanding of the psychological paranoia at the heart of its story. though it is still quite gruesome and the thing should be as much remembered for the skill by which the story is put together as it is for the gory alien designs and make up effects while for it is the storytelling skill and the suspense that make it so memorable in the final analysis. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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