From: eichlertwothedigitnotspelled@comcast.net   
      
   On Sun, 5 Jun 2022 08:22:10 -0700 (PDT), Mark Leeper   
    wrote:   
      
   >June 25 is the fortieth anniversary of the release of JOHN   
   >CARPENTER'S THE THING (not to be confused with THE THING FROM   
   >ANOTHER WORLd (1951) or THE THING (2011)).  Given that it is forty   
   >years old, and based on a story that is about seventy-five years   
   >old, THERE WILL BE SPOILERS!  Briefly, this is a logic puzzle mixed   
   >with an alien invasion story.   
      
   My dad was a big fan of the 1951 movie, so he insisted that I go see   
   Carpenter's version in the theater with him.  I was 14 at the time.   
   That movie thoroughly traumatized me.  Put me off horror movies for   
   years.  I mean, it was an R rated movie, but my dad assumed it would   
   be about as scary as the version from the 50s (which I later saw on TV   
   and was amused by how tame it was).   
      
   Anyway, I watched Carpenter's Thing again as an adult and if you can   
   deal with the gore, the whole paranoia aspect of being trapped in an   
   isolated, remote location and not knowing which members of your group   
   may or may not be monsters is pretty compelling.   
      
     -- Bob   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)