event Midnight Madness: The Thing

Though ostensibly a remake of the Howard Hawks sci-fi classic from 1951, John Carpenter’s The Thing goes for more visceral scares as it isolates a research team in the Antarctic and turns loose a murderous alien parasite. Upon arriving at their post, the research team (led by Carpenter muse Kurt Russell) is startled to find a circling helicopter shooting at a dog; when the helicopter goes down, the Americans discover the animal’s roots at a Norwegian outpost nearby that’s been completely destroyed. Turns out that an alien parasite with the power to take over its host is spreading, and threatening to wipe them out, too.

Though ostensibly a remake of the Howard Hawks sci-fi classic from 1951, John Carpenter’s The Thing goes for more visceral scares as it isolates a research team in the Antarctic and turns loose a murderous alien parasite. Upon arriving at their post, the research team (led by Carpenter muse Kurt Russell) is startled to find a circling helicopter shooting at a dog; when the helicopter goes down, the Americans discover the animal’s roots at a Norwegian outpost nearby that’s been completely destroyed. Turns out that an alien parasite with the power to take over its host is spreading, and threatening to wipe them out, too.