[WL-law]

I happened to watch the Carpenter remake of The Thing last weekend -- my favorite sci-fi movie, BTW -- and this story has some eerie parallels. Be concerned...

[Bernard Marx]

the Carpenter remake of The Thing last weekend -- my favorite sci-fi movie, BTW

Too bad the real author, John W. Campbell Jr., never gets much credit for his original pulp story "Who Goes There?" It was in the great 1930s style of purple prose and bodice-ripping BEMs (Bug-Eyed Monsters) but Lordy I loved 'em!

The 1950s movie version did something revolutionary for the time. It only showed scary glimpses of the alien monster (aka 'Marshall' James Arness) and built suspense until the final confrontation when the Thing was at last revealed.

[Paul C. Jesup]

I happened to watch the Carpenter remake of The Thing last weekend -- my favorite sci-fi movie, BTW -- and this story has some eerie parallels. Be concerned...

Either that or the HP Lovecraft novel "The Mountains of Madness" river (sea) of styx.

[Tench_Coxe]

"I happened to watch the Carpenter remake of The Thing last weekend -- my favorite sci-fi movie, BTW -- and this story has some eerie parallels. Be concerned..."

For the more recent horror movies ( late 20th century ), that one is a gem.

[hershey]

My uncle, John Campbell, wrote the short story the film, The Thing, is based on. He wrote science fiction short stories for 3 cents a word while at MIT, paid his own tuition, but eventually flunked out because he was too interested in writing to go to class!