John Carpenter's The Thing...The Perfect Horror Movie?

[Foggy]

Pretty much agree!

It retains the enjoyment out of horror that most horror films forget today. Most scary films are more about ear shattering loud bangs instead of genuine suspense and storytelling. The atmosphere in The Thing pretty much builds itself so there's no need for contrivances and artifice to carry the film along, and what shocks are involved are sparingly used and innovative. You like pretty much all the characters and you understand the riffs created between them, and at the end of the day, it's simply perfect craftsmanship from a perfect suspense filmmaker.

Granted a dare say the usual suspects will be coming here soon and saying how it's dated because some off the effects aren't rendered in computers.