The Thing: John Carpenter's 1982 The Thing — Antarctic researchers locked in with an unknown shapeshifter.
JUN 25 1982 · 12:01
📹 The Thing (1982) - MacReady Tests the Blood Samples John Carpenter's 1982 The Thing — Antarctic researchers locked in with an unknown shapeshifter. Referenced in The Hateful Eight (2015). Tarantino acknowledges The Thing as the structural template — Ennio Morricone's Hateful Eight score actually reuses unused cues he composed for The Thing in 1982.
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