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Keep On Tugging: John Carpenter’s The Thing and the Male Body in Crisis

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|Lucas Hardwick| ***Spoiler alert for The Thing and The Thing and a few other films*** When I was a kid my dad always said that if there was ever a World War III, he wanted the first bomb to drop on our house. He said it was because he… Continue reading

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Who Goes There?: The Thing, AI, and Isolation in the Digital Age

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|Riccardo Williams| John Carpenter’s The Thing, released in 1982, has since achieved the status of horror legend, in many ways eclipsing the book it’s based on, Who Goes There written by John W. Campbell Jr. There’s a strong argument to be made that it overtakes the previous adaptation… Continue reading