1980's horror movies 2

*** The movie's screenplay by Bill Lancaster, creates a sense of paranoia, and menace. When the scientists hunt for the dog, the animal is attacked by The Thing. Then, as the creature takes hold of people, MacCready decides to take charge. He orders a blood test, and whoever doesn't want to have his blood taken, is The Thing. *** The music by Ennio Morricone and Carpenter evokes the unsettling horror of the movie. Director of Photography Dean Cundey, (who worked on Carpenter's Halloween series in the late 1970's, to the early 1980's); and the special effects, assaulted the viewer. In 1982, "The Thing" disturbed people, like the UK's " Xtro ", (Harry Bromley Davenport); and the Steven Spielberg produced and directed family science fiction movie, " ET ". Lastly, The Thing is about who is The Thing that forms the mystery of the movie...Who is it?... *** The Thing is now on Blue Ray uncut. *** Page 2.

*** In 1982, John Carpenter directed the re-make of The Thing. With special effects by Rob Bottin, "The Howling", 1981, it was a controversial science fiction/horror classic that was scary when it was released. Based on the novella "Who goes there?", by John W. Campbell, Jr., it begins with several Norway hunters, (Larry Franco and Norbert Weisser), who are shooting at a dog with rifles, in the Arctic ice. Afterwards, a group of men who are working in Antarctica, fall victim to The Thing. *** The group decides what to do when they fall victim to The Thing....John Carpenter's The Thing, (1982). *** The cast includes: Macready, (Kurt Russell, John Carpenter's Escape from New York, 1981); Doctor Blair, (A. Wilford Brimley); Nauls, (T K Carter)-an African-American scientist; Palmer, (David Clennon); Childs, another African-American scientist; (Keith David); Doctor Copper, (Richard Dysart); Vance Norris, (Charles Hallahan); George Bennings, (Peter Maloney); ...