Campbell's 1938 novella Who Goes There?, has established itself as one of the genre's most inventive, resonant, and gut-churning visions.
Though reviled upon release, John Carpenter's vicious remake of the 1951's The Thing From Another World, itself an adaptation of John W. Campbell's 1938 novella Who Goes There?, has established itself as one of the genre's most inventive, resonant, and gut-churning visions. Kurt Russell stars as MacReady, one of a handful of American researchers in Antarctica who encounter an alien parasite with an uncanny ability to infest and imitate its host. And while the assimilation process is plenty frightening in itself — the memes flood social media to this day — it's the ensuing paranoia that pervades, dividing this tiny community with an escalating litany of fears that mirrors any number of political and spiritual obsessions.