At the Movies!

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So I watched John Carpenter's The Thing.

A great film about paranoia. The cast did a really good job with their roles, seeing them more distrusting and fearful of each other (and so is the viewer not knowing who is real and who is fake) is an unique experience.

Combine this aspects of paranoia with a well paced plot, a claustrophobic setting and really good practical effects for the gore and you get yourself a shinning example of a horror movie done right

John Carpenter's The Thing and Stanley Kubrick's The Shinning are easily the best horror movies I have seen this year.

EDIT: oh yeah, I almost forgot. Here is an excellent short story that narrates certain events of the movie from the perspective of the eponymous Thing. Published on Issue 40 of Clarkesworld Magazine, January 2010. Written by Peter Watts.

http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10

I would love to see a movie based on a similar concept as this.