[agere_contra]

I agree. ‘The Thing from Another World’ was superb. Carpenter’s effort quickly became one special effects set-piece after another.

[Jack Deth]

Hi, guys:

Carpenter knew he couldn’t compete with Howard Hawks’ overlaid dialogue and palpable sense of claustrophobia. So Carpenter substituted paranoia instead and leaned heavily on over-the-top, superbly executed special effects.

Of the two, I still prefer Hawks’ original and see no sense in a third even more lame attempt to mess with near perfection.

Jack.