Forget 'Alien,' John Carpenter’s 'The Thing' Is the Most Terrifying Sci-Fi Horror Film Ever

John Carpenter delivered a masterclass in mixing sci-fi concepts with growing paranoia in The Thing.
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John Carpenter's The Thing makes perfect use of the cold. The prequel melted the horror away.

John W. Campbell’s Who Goes There? opens in the dead of winter. The events of this 1938 sci-fi horror novella take place during the coldest months in Antarctica, where a group of researchers stumble ...