Review #262: The Thing (1982)
This review was originally written in October 2023. Gabe's Horror Movie October Review #16 - The Thing (1982) The Thing follows the crew of an antarctic research facility, who are beset upon by some Norwegian researchers chasing a dog across the tundra. The Norwegians get themselves killed and the protagonists take in the dog, and it's later discovered that the Norwegian base was destroyed with extreme prejudice shortly after recovering some kind of an alien lifeform that was frozen in the ice. This life form can seemingly infect, assimilate, and replace any living organism it comes across, and... hey, has anyone seen that dog they were trying to blow up? It's probably around here somewhere. Anyway, the rest of the movie has the protagonists pointing flamethrowers at one another, nobody can trust anybody else, and the future looks more and more bleak when they begin to realize what would happen if this creature were to reach the rest of civilization. Maybe they should sit d...