CBB presents The Bear Cave of Terror - Ep. 6 - John Carpenter's The Thing

On this week's episode of the Bear Cave of Terror, Steve invites one of the Movie Bear Podcast's hosts and horror fan, Will Lindus, to discuss one of his favorite fright films, John Carpenter's The Thing, from 1982! A big-budget remake of The Thing From Another World, released 30 years earlier, Will and Steve talk about the history of the making of the film, the creativity and impressive work put into those shocking and splattery scenes of the "thing" transforming and absorbing the people (and dogs) around it, the actors, and ultimately, the unfortunately poor reception when it was released in the summer of '82, a banner year for SciFi classic films destined to become cult favorites. Although, given the enduring sense of paranoia, mystery around which characters were actually infected, and of course, the ambiguous downer of an ending, the legacy  ...