It was at that moment that I realized something that has sat with me ever since: despite being almost as old as Alien, I’d argue John Carpenter’s The Thing remains the single greatest creature feature in the history of the horror genre, simply because we still know almost nothing about The Thing.
Being younger than the Alien franchise itself, I eventually came to realize that the omnipresence of the Xenomorph in pop culture had decreased the monster’s effectiveness over the years, and my mind eventually wandered to the horror genre as a whole.
Ridley Scott’s original Alien was on TV recently, so naturally, I watched.
It’s an undeniable classic of the horror genre, but while the film efficiently delivers a creepy atmosphere that has seldom been topped in the years since its release, there was something about the movie that didn’t quite sit right.