Hold Up

Imagine, if you will, you are in the Arctic - doing Arctic things - when all of a sudden, a helicopter filled with two Norwegian dudes and a crate of grenades fly into your remote camp chasing a sled dog. Now, imagine that one of the guys has butterfingers and fumbles a grenade into the snow near the helicopter and blows up the chopper and the pilot. Now, imagine that this Norwegian dude screams some non-American gibberish and then shoots one of your friends in the knee before being killed by your boss?  Now imagine that the dog ends up being a shapeshifting creature who begins stealing your friend’s likenesses and killing them in horrible and grotesque ways. Well, assuming you held onto any of that, you have just imagined the opening of John Carpenter’s The Thing. Released in 1982 to horrified audiences everywhere this film stars Kurt Russell, Keith David, and Wilford Brimley’s mustache, as part of the research team attempting to survive and outsmart a bloodthirsty creature who can copy any animal it wants.