The Thing is deeply overrated, I just want to say that now and get it out of the way.
Let’s move past the anger.
Whilst the film may have been impressive at the time, and whilst I can appreciate the lonely and haunting beauty of the polar landscape it takes place in, nothing can remove the fact it is terribly paced. The film takes a long time to get going and when it does it spends a lot of time meandering, hanging out in rooms talking rather than actually having the characters spend all that much time with the creature.
The creature effects are okay, I always prefer practical effects over CGI, so I will give it its credit for that. However, it is not the scariest thing in the world, it is grotesque but not anything more than that.
Personally, I think that The Fog is a much better John Carpenter horror film.
Overall, it is brutally long, and boring.
1.5/5
Pros.
The setting
The score
Cons.
It is far too long
It isn’t scary
The action and the horror are not blended well together
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