Yet The Thing and its cast manage to give each of ... one of the most likable characters to ever appear in a Carpenter film. The first assimilation of the film is also the biggest question mark.

Hitting theaters in 1982, John Carpenter's masterclass in building tension and suspense, The Thing, was not a critical or commercial success at the time but slowly became recognized as one of the ...

John Carpenter is now regarded as one of the ... including Hans Zimmer who later cited him as a source of inspiration. Among Carpenter’s most famous films is the 1982 masterpiece The Thing, which is ...

Earlier this year, we heard that Ian Nathan, author of Alien Vault, Terminator Vault, Stephen King at the Movies, The Legend ...

Few horror directors are as admired and beloved as John Carpenter ... have teamed Carpenter with make-up artist legend Rick Baker for what could have been another horror monster masterpiece ...

(Carpenter had found his John Wayne, though Russell put himself ... a loose remake of Hawks and Christian Nyby’s 1951 monster movie The Thing From Another World, about researchers in a remote ...