The Thing
Hot damn, this is intense. “Show, don’t tell is” taken pretty far here, most exposition is replaced with body horror instead. High octane paranoia, relentless from the opening shot with the escaping “dog” to the final explosions.
This is achieved with a single jump scare, on the blood testing scene. The rest is purely psychological horror, organs and violins. The body horror is embraced, and 40 years later they hold up pretty well. Clearly squishy miniatures, stop motion and puppetry trump all other special effects.
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