Carpenter’s original The Thing is an amazing movie, certainly one of his best and one of my favorite slow-burn horror movies, but it has its flaws.  So does The Thing remake / prequel.  However, as written by Eric Heisserer and shot by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr., The Thing manages to do what so few remakes figure out – that a remake can only get so far on nostalgia, and needs to be able to stand as its own film…

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