Hitting theaters in 1982, John Carpenter's masterclass in building ... being killed via assimilation by the split-faced thing's remains, and then having his body burned by the others before ...

With a dozen members of the Antarctic research station, one would think that a character or two would come across as cookie-cutter. Yet The Thing and ... ever appear in a Carpenter film.

Though it came after his wonderfully loopy Dan O’Bannon collaboration Dark Star, John Carpenter ... action thriller, Carpenter again turned directly to Howard Hawks for The Thing, a loose ...