What time is it? SPOOKTOBER 🎃🎃🎃🎃

Knock Knock! Trick or treat! 👻👻

Well, October 31^st is close, so It’s time to speak about something spooky. For this occasion, I’ll talk about my favorite horror movie. I’m referring to “The Thing” from Carpenter, which is an American science fiction horror film from the 80s.

The movie is an adaptation of the novella “Who Goes There?” by author John W Campbell. The story is about a group of scientists isolated by the winter in a base in Antarctica. One day, they discover an alien spaceship buried in the ice, where it crashed several years ago. They end up recovering a frozen alien the spacecraft.

Thawing revives the alien, a being that can assume the shape, memories, and personality of any living thing it devours. The creature begins to kill the people inside the base, it even eats the dog!! With that, the crew realizes they must isolate their base and therefore disable their airplanes and vehicles. Because if the creature escape, the thing could take over the world and that means the end of humanity.

Now, the researchers are in a race against time They try to figure out who may have been replaced by the thing, to destroy the imitations the creature left. But the task won’t be easy, because if being a literal “ditto” wasn’t enough, the thing has telepathy too. The entire movie is an ambiance dominated by paranoia and anxiety, and for me is absolutely thrilling.

How could the scientists solve this problem? If you have never seen “The Thing” I invite you to do it. For these spooky days could be a really good panorama.