The Thing honored by the National Film Registry

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by Toni Ruberto

At an isolated Antarctic research station, scientists battle a deadly alien with such extraordinary shape-shifting capabilities that the men don’t know if the person next to them is still human. The truth is only revealed when the alien is threatened and violently abandons its current inhabitant.

As played out in John Carpenter’s bleak 1982 film The Thing, these scenes are shocking. The alien bursts from its warm hideout inside man or beast with pieces of previous victims gushing out and sinewy tentacles whipping through the room in search of another victim to absorb. Yes, it looks as gross as it sounds and that’s the marvel of this film made in the predigital and CGI-age…

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