Shrouded in darkness, trapped between a fixture of time and space, in a foreboding, yet humble cabin this reviewer is disgusted by the Halloween films of the current century. Buckle up kiddos, this 145- year old grandpa will show you whipper snappers what a real scary movie is, like John Carpenter’s “The Thing.”

This movie is about a group of American Scientists in Antartica, and how they face up against an alien changeling that can morph into to any organic creature, including humans. They look identical to their prey, straight down to the scar tissue. If this freak of nature makes into society, it will destroy the human race.

The hook of a story, the first scene of a film is imperative to setting the tone and is something this movie perfects. We see a long wide angle with a helicopter over the vast wide tundra. A slick, black helicopter gliding over the surface, and you know something is not right.

There is an ominous force that you can feel, and almost taste. The movie progresses with stunning visuals and some of the best special effects of that era, with truly horrifying puppets that with strike fear in the minds of the young by a simple glance.

This movie perfects tension with the theme of distrust. Anyone could be this monster hunting the Americans, and you can’t trust anyone.

Each scene builds towards the masterpiece of the puzzle that this movie captures the fear of an unknown, and I couldn’t recommend it enough.

The sound design fixates around a cruel reality of death for the people of earth if our hero can’t save and purge these evil beings.

We can relate to this futuristic goal of survival any monster that jeopardizes that must be destroyed.

In the end we can all agree that a tense, non-scary film sadly doesn’t fit in our theaters. People have moved on to clowns and other crap, and couldn’t see a good film if it bit them in the nose.

I give it a 4.84 out 5 stars.

This was my bimonthly film review. I hope you hated it.