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Forum: Movie Reviews 02-23-22
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John Carpenter's The Thing
Posted By skizzerflake
Re: John Carpenter's The Thing

I love both The Thing from Another World and The 80's The Thing (Carpenter's version). The later iteration sucks. If you read the original novella, John Campbell's 1938 Who Goes There, it's obvious...
Forum: Movie Reviews 06-12-15
Replies: 84
John Carpenter's The Thing
Posted By skizzerflake
It's worth keeping the chronology in mind. The...

It's worth keeping the chronology in mind. The novella "Who Goes There?" was written in 1938. The Thing From Another World was the first movie (1951), made in a time with small budgets and minimal...
Forum: Movie Reviews 03-01-14
Replies: 84
John Carpenter's The Thing
Posted By skizzerflake
Carpenter's Thing wasn't a remake, it was much...

Carpenter's Thing wasn't a remake, it was much closer to the 1935 John Campbell book Who Goes There? than the older version. The 1951 Thing was excellent as a low budget re-imagining of the book,...