The Frame

When I agreed to go to my friend’s Halloween movie-watching party, she promised me that John Carpenter’s The Thing was schlocky enough that I wouldn’t really be scared. And she was right. A group of scientists in Antarctica come in contact with an alien life form that can take over other living things and assume their form; soon, they realize that any of them could actually be infected with the alien DNA. We all had a few nice screams each time the alien revealed itself (the blood, man, the blood); Carpenter definitely has a great sense of timing. The script was pretty laughable, though, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing to a bunch of horror-shy people like most of us at the party were. ;) All in all, not an out-and-out classic, but perhaps a classic of the schlocky horror genre.
Above Average