So I finally got around to watching this masterpiece, and its easily one of my top 5 favorite movies now. I wish I had seen it earlier.
That being said, are their any other good movies like this that you would recommend?
Lets discuss The Thing and related movies
This was the first of a trilogy that John Carpenter had done. It was called the Apocalypse trilogy I believe and it was heavily influenced by Lovecraft's work. Here's the 2nd film in that trilogy.
Whats the third one? Have you seen it?
The 3rd one is in the mouth of madness. It's considered to be the weakest of the trilogy but its overall a pretty good film. The Lovecraft influences are much stronger in this film than any other in the trilogy.
I feel it's unfair to say The Thing is Lovecraftian, maybe even sacrilege.
The Great Old Ones are spirituality pure - the bones of the Earth;
The Thing is so vile it sickens me to the core.
Well the story the thing is based off of did draw some of its influence from the Mountains of Madness.
Daily reminder that this movie bombed when it came out and the (((critics))) buried it because it wasn't muh E.T.
Yes, they hated now its considered a classic.
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The influence is pretty minimal, to be honest. At the Mountain of Madness is barely a horror story.