The first time I saw John Carpenter’s The Thing I would have been around 13 or 14 years old and staying overnight at my cousin’s house. We rented a bunch of horror movies and decided to stay up all night watching them, and things were going well up until three in the morning or so. That’s when we popped in this horror classic. We were repulsed by the gory effects and tense atmosphere of the first half, but then comes the blood test scene. Hoo boy. The blood test scene. I’m not going to give too much away, but the
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