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John Carpenter

1 film reviewed

sci-fi horror · creature featureOct 15, 2025

The Thing (1982)

Dir. John Carpenter

Carpenter and Dean Cundey keep the camera almost still, letting confined spaces and tenuous alliances do the work. The blood test scene remains one of cinema's great sustained sequences of dread.

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5/5
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