very good horror movie. share your opinion.

Classic.

Better than 95% of horror movies out there. Also the movie that kickstarted Kurt Russel's and John Carpenter's career, so we were able to get movies like Escape from New York, Big Trouble in Little China, Tango and Cash and so on.

Also that movie had Wilford Brimley, who has Diabeet-iss. Ran out of ice cream and then struck his wife. Then he found out his wife has been dead for the last 7 years... Who the hell did he hit?!

Still holds up as one of the best of the horror genre, right up there with flicks like "alien" and "the exorcist"

This happens to be my all time favorite horror movie, I just love everything about it. (even though it is dated the chess machine and the computer running the simulation of the alien copying cells is ya ). I have heard really good things about the original the thing (1951) as well though (mainly how the conversations in that movie are filmed sort of like real life with different ones going on at same time. But to be honest I have never watched it.

-Edit- You know I felt like I had to mention my close second the 1968 Night of the living dead is just one hell of a movie all around, all that followed are good but man this one still shines to me.

The Thing is like most of John Carpenter's in the early eighties: FUN. However it came out after "Escape from New York."

I also liked "Christine."

There was also, "The Fog." all good fun films.

Then he made " Starman." . I'd forgotten about that until I checked the release order of the films. Not so good.

Ah you're right, for some reason i thought escape from new york was later in the 80s.

Great creature effects. Real puppets, not this lazy modern CG stuff. Sure, less tentacles than in the new movie, but much more realistic looking.

Good movie, one of my favorite horror movies. I always asked myself where the the thing came from, but its unknown and i always thought it was kind of weird that a parastic life form was able to create a flying saucer. I used to think that maybe the thing really was just so form of weapon that the real aliens launched into space and it just found it's way to Earth. It also seems that the real aliens might have struggled to fight off the thing and that's what lead their space ship to crash. There actually more stuff on some fan sites it's interesting reading it. I wonder what hapen to the alien pilots they never showed them in the movie.

Oh wait i think they did show it in the 2011 film.

I watched it for the first time last year and fell in love with it.

One of my favourite movies.
It's way better than the http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044121/ even, which is quite dull. (and I like a lot of 1950's scf-fi)

Really? I enjoyed Starman, being another of his "fun films" for me

Seriously though, what was the last movie(2000 onwards)you watched that actually scared/shocked you? I think I was spoilt with older movies as a kid. Nothing scares me now.

Starman had a different vibe to the other films. A cuddlier film. I will have to try and see it again.

But I do like John Carpenter films.

Oh, I agree. It is a much cuddlier film than his other stuff. I still had fun watching it

I've never seen Carpenter's version. But I remember liking the 1951 original.

Texas Chain Saw Massacre remake from around 2000, and then nothing up until the Conjuring, which was probably the best horror movie me and my wife have watched in years. That's not to say either is our favorite horror movie, just the only two we can think of that actually scared us at certain points. Silent Hill is our favorite for modern. My all-time favorite is Night of the Living Dead(1968 version) and for my wife it's still Silent Hill.

Oddly enough, "The Thing" is not a movie I enjoyed. Just not my cup of tea I guess.

An awesome horror movie. I love the creepy, almost lovecraftian, brooding atmosphere. The theme music by Ennio Morricone is just brilliant even if its only like 4 or 5 notes for the most part.

It's really good. It also follows the original short story, which I think was published in 1939. The short story though had a lot larger population in the Antarctic base. The 1951 film did not follow the written short story at all.

Yeah, John Carpenter's The Thing is my all time favorite horror movie.

Love it, definitely one of my favorites.

If you like this sort of "thing" I really recommend the documentary "Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel" about Roger Corman.

I was given this movie on DVD as a present long ago and while enjoy it. Reminds me that I haven't watched it in years. Might need to do something about that.

I always figured it belonged to some of it's previous victims.

Possibly absorbs the memories of victims

The Thing is one of my favorite movies of all time. Discovered it in college while renting every horror movie the rental place had, my friends and I fell in love with it. Own it on DVD, will eventually get it on Blu Ray.

Besides the Thing, my all time favorite horror movies are Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1 and 2, Hellraiser 1 and 2, Friday the 13th part 2(3 and 4 are honorable mention), Night, Dawn, and Day of the Dead(Dawn is my #1 favorite between the 3), and I like some of those whacky cannibal movies like Cannibal Ferox(Make Them Die Slowly), Cannibal Holocaust, etc. Some of the remakes in recent years have been alright, Texas Chainsaw and Friday the 13th. The Rob Zombie Halloween remake was good but the sequel was horrible. Devil's Rejects is good. Lifeforce is a good sci-fi horror movie(directed by TCM Tobe Hooper, has Captain Picard in it lol), Deathproof is solid, Alien, The Conjuring. Those are all my favs off the top of my head, I'm sure I forgot about a couple more obscure titles.