After watching Dallas lay an egg in Detroit, I thought about my favorite scene in all of filmmaking: the blood test from John Carpenter’s, The Thing. When it happens, we’ve already been put through the ringer. Our likeable crew of American researchers stuck on ice — led by the fantastically-bearded Kurt Russell — have already witnessed a series of Lovecraftian nightmares: from dog aliens, blood flowers, and leviathan eyes to a human chest that transforms into Venom’s mouth.
But the alien antagonist isn’t Victor E. Green or plants from the Northeast — it’s just a parasite that can clone other organisms, including humans.