The Thing

Happy Halloween! My favourite horror film, a perfect horror movie and a perfect film. Weirdly always a cozy watch. Out the middle of the Antarctic cold and isolated from the rest of civilisation a team of 12 discover a ufo crash and what comes of it will be their doom. You can’t trust anyone and unforeseen enemy can strike at any time it’s truly horrifying. The cast were perfect Kurt Russel as Mac-ready is the goat id trust him with anything. The paranoia is within every frame. The atmosphere is ever present you feel the hear the wind feel the freezing cold and the enclosed station a hopeless distance from any kind of rescue. The Thing is the perfect combination of suspense, body horror, and classic horror scare. The tension John Carpenter builds is genius its reminiscent of the freezing ice, slow, silent and deadly. The score is fantastic, simple yet effective in every way much like Jaws score the slow minimal notes create the sense of impending danger something that we can’t see lurking through the base. The slow build up of the score enhances the stillness of the scenes. The cinematography is outright awesome. Some of the shots are so good looking it captures the isolation perfectly. Carpenter camera work is genius he observes the cast they’re often filmed separated through walls or distanced from each other feeding into that paranoia that no one is safe and anyone could be THE THING!. Childs: "Well what do we do now?" MacReady: *"Why don’t we just… wait here for a little while… see what happens."* **31 favourite horror films** **