Honest Trailers Goes Retro with John Carpenter's THE THING

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The team at Honest Trailers is taking us back to the icy terror of John Carpenter’s awesome horror film The Thing (1982), and it’s a chillingly perfect choice for spooky season.

This new video dives into the claustrophobic paranoia, killer practical effects, and that unforgettable ambiguity that still fuels debates over who’s human and who’s an alien impostor.

Packed with flamethrowers, suspicious stares, and Kurt Russell rocking the best beard in sci-fi horror history, it’s a hilarious yet loving look at one of the greatest horror films ever made.

Whether you’re revisiting it or discovering it for the first time, this Honest Trailer reminds us why The Thing remains an absolute masterpiece of fear, frost, and alien freakouts.

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