Halloween Recommendation: John Carpenter’s The Thing

It is that time of the year again and since Halloween is just around the corner our year recommendation to watch on that special night is none other than John Carpenter’s The Thing.

The film was based on a 1938 sci-fi horror novella “Who Goes There?” by American author John W. Campbell, who wrote it under his pen name Don A. Stuart. The film took the same premise of the novella in which a group of American researchers in Antarctica found something up there and this “thing” can take the shape and form of anything organic it absore, including humans. Once the crew sees one of their own becoming the “thing”, paranoia and trust issues are at an all-time high, and the greatest game of “Guess Who” is played on the big screen, which includes the now legendary Blood Test scene and an ending that is still talked about to this day.

The cast for The Thing was great from Kurt Russell as R.J. MacReady, Keith David as Childs, and A. Wilford Brimley as Blair, the rest of the cast played their part to perfection. The music was created by none other than the great Ennio Morricone.

I highly recommend you to watch this film on Halloween with the lights off and by yourself or with someone who has never seen this film at all and at the end you can ask yourself, who was the Thing?