John Carpenter's The Thing

Published: May 31, 2021, 3:54 p.m.

Coming hot off the success of Halloween and Escape From New York, director/composer John Carpenter was the ideal candidate to remake the sci fi horror classic The Thing. With Kurt Russell in the lead, the film boasted stunning effects work from Rob Bottin and was an absolute master class in suspense and paranoia \u2014 so why did the zeitgeist violently reject it during the summer of 1982? Join Sebastian, Jennifer and Troy in the Antarctic as they thaw this beloved creature feature from the ice to biopsy its unfair initial reception from audiences and critics.