We’re one week away from this year’s Fright Night Film Fest where the guest of honor is none other than the Master of Horror himself – John Carpenter! There is a remake of Carpenter’s monster classic The Thing waiting in the wings – but we all know that there is no way it can rival the majesty and ferocity of Carpenter’s 1982 film. MVP thought we should cleanse the palate of bad horror by revisiting the original – remake that is.
John Carpenter’s nihilistic paranoia fueled monsterama splattered it’s way across movie screens in 1982 and left both audiences and critics shaking in fear and bewilderment. It was the summer of E.T. The Extra-terrestrial and the public wanted fuzzy, family friendly aliens. What they got with Carpenter’s reworking of Howard Hawks’ classic The Thing From Another World – was cold, humorless, and as vicious as a rabid pit-bull. The movie was almost universally panned and performed abysmally at the box office.
It wasn’t until years passed by that audiences gained appreciation in hindsight and began proclaiming John Carpenter’s The Thing a masterpiece. Today, you can support John Carpenter by watching his latest horror film – The Ward – playing in theaters and VOD sometime this weekend.
(Watch the movie after the break!)
In the meantime, it’s Saturday and you can watch John Carpenter and 
(special FX expert) Rob Bottin’s masterwork – right now – for free online. So what the heck are you waiting for? Does someone need to come in and perform a blood test on you to make sure that you’re human? Start watching the movie right now!
Next week you can meet John Carpenter at the Fright Night Film Fest in Louisville, Kentucky but this week – it’s Scary Movie Saturday!
Universal already zapped the last two parts of this Youtube upload so please be warned that the final two segments are from a crudely filmed replacement.
