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John Carpenter's The Thing
John Carpenter’s, The Thing, is about an alien with the ability to take the form of any life that it absorbs. Antarctic research base of 12 man has to team in order to get through the slaughter, suspicion and paranoia. The Thing plays a fair within both genres, horror and sci-fi. One of Carpenter’s best films since Halloween, Carpenter made sure to take his time setting up the creature amongst our heroes along establishing each character.
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