The Thing (1982) | Pop-up Video | Kurt Russell | John Carpenter

The Chicago Film Critics Association named it the 17th scariest film ever made. The Thing was named "the scariest movie . . . ever!" by the staff of the Boston Globe. In 2008, the film was selected by Empire magazine as one of The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time. John Kenneth Muir, writing in Horror Movies of the 1980s, called it "Carpenter's most accomplished and underrated directorial effort". Muir goes on to say that it is "the best science fiction-horror film of 1982, an incredibly competitive year, and perhaps even the best genre motion picture of the decade." The Thing is annually viewed by members of the winter crew at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station during the first evening of winter.