‘The Thing’ Blu-ray Review

The Thing
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Every 30 years or so, a new director digs into this deliciously scary tale of a beastly, not-of-this-world “thing” running amok in an isolated Antarctic base camp. This latest version, the third movie based on a 1938 short story called “Who Goes There?,” is actually a prequel setting up the plot of director John Carpenter’s 1981 classic, explaining how a shape-shifting space-alien monster came to be unlocked from deep-freeze hibernation and set on its rampage. The special effects have certainly improved over the years, but the scares are just as primal as ever---terror, paranoia, and the elemental clash of fire and ice. This “Thing” keeps a long legacy of vintage sci-fi shivers fresh and frightening for yet another new generation of movie fans.

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