SCARETOBER 2020: The Thing (1982)

“Someone in this camp ain’t what he appears to be.”

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CONTENT WARNING: Intense gore and violence, intense body horror, animal death, paranoia, murder, death, suggestions of mental illness, isolation

We’re finishing up our horror series with a movie Macintosh has had on his list for a long time, while Maud has mostly been indifferent. But this isn’t a movie that warrants a medium opinion. Critics at the time considered this one of the worst horror movies ever made; nearly 40 years later, it’s become a horror classic and even on some people’s lists for one of the best movies ever made. Leave it to us to feel very differently about this movie. It’s a benchmark of movie-making, for sure, but is it truly great cinema? Get your flamethrower ready as we finish off our spooky season with 1982’s The Thing on Macintosh & Maud Haven’t Seen What?!

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Intro and outro music taken from the Second Movement of Ludwig von Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Hong Kong (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 HK) license. To hear the full performance or get more information, visit the song page at the Internet Archive.