![]() ![]() If you’ve never seen the film or don’t know the story, the premise is straightforward. Carpenter’s version is much more faithful to the original text, especially in how it embraces the Lovecraftian elements of the story, from the utterly desolate arctic setting and ancient evil to the grotesque tentacled creatures (or really, singular creature) that terrorize our protagonists. ![]() ![]() ![]() short story “Who Goes There?” Campbell’s story had been adapted decades earlier, in 1951, as “ The Thing From Another World,” with huge liberties taken with the source material. “The Thing” has, in the decades since its release, become a cult classic.īecause October is horror movie month in the Bouie household, I recently rewatched “The Thing,” which is actually an adaptation of the 1938 John W. It is “too phony looking to be disgusting,” Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times. “‘The Thing’ is basically, then, just a geek show, a gross-out movie in which teenagers can dare one another to watch the screen,” Roger Ebert wrote in his review. Audiences hated it and critics dismissed it. John Carpenter’s “ The Thing” was a flop on release. ![]()
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