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An alien entity which can take any living form invades an isolated scientific research station in the Antarctic. John Carpenter's 1982 movie The Thing is best known for some of the most startling visual effects - surreal, lurid, shocking perversions of the human body - ever committed to celluloid. It has been hailed by director Quentin Tarantino as one of his favourite films. Yet when it was first released, The Thing fared badly against another alien encounter movie, E.T., and critics panned it. But the film has aged well, and its influence can be detected in everything from Se7en to The X Files.
In her elegant and trenchant study, Anne Billson argues that The Thing has never been given its due. She sees it as a landmark movie, brilliantly refines the conventions of classic horror and science fiction, combining them with humour, Lewis Carroll logic, strong characterisation and prescient insight. The idea of an alien species mutating and inhabiting humans resonates all too chillingly with the Covid-19 pandemic and other zoonotic diseases caused by human encroachment on natural habitats.- Format: TradePaperback
- Author: Billson, Anne
- ISBN: 9781839023590
- Condition: Used
- Number Of Pages: 112
- Publication Year: 2021
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English