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

[Todd Tomorrow]

Originally Posted by warrian

I once saw it described as "Ennio Morricone doing his John Carpenter impression" which is about perfect if you ask me.

That was the idea. John Carpenter wanted to compose the score himself like for all of his other films, but this being his first major studio film, the studio insisted on a well known composer. So Morricone gave Carpenter the type of score he would have composed.