Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users.
This time, a Halloween treat. John Carpenter’s The Thing.
Show Notes:
- Recorded and released especially for Halloween, and so eschewing the random number generator.
- Recorded 16th September 2017.
- The Thing at The Internet Movie Database.
- The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
- The Thing (BFI Modern Classics) by Anne Billson, August 1997.
- Anne Billson at The Guardian on the legacy of The Thing, August 2009.
- Pharr Out! Magazine interviews Anne Billson on The Thing, 1998.
- Anne Billson interviews John Carpenter, June 1996.
- Peter Sobczynski interviews John Carpenter at RogerEbert.com, August 2014.
- Ignatiy Vishnevetsky interviews John Carpenter at The A.V. Club, October 2015.
- Noah Berlatsky at The Atlantic on the gender anxieties of The Thing, October 2011.
- Matthew Pridham at Weird Fiction Review on the body horror of The Thing, March 2012.
- Kyle Anderson at The Nerdist on the Lovecraftian influences on The Thing, June 2017.
- Ryan Lamble at Den of Geek on the chilly critical reception of The Thing, June 2017.
- Dave Tompkins at The Paris Review on the lasting impact of The Thing, March 2015.
- Patrick Marlborough at Vice on the troubled production history and critical rehabilitation of The Thing, June 2017.
- Ryan Lamble at Den of Geek on the legacy of The Thing, June 2012.
- H. Perry Horton at Film School Rejects on the influence of John Carpenter’s The Thing on Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, November 2016.
- Lee Hardcastle’s Thingu, January 2012.
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