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Mary Versus the Movies

Episode 13 - The Thing (1982)

Broadcast on:
11 Jun 2021

We go a little long on this one, but come on, it's John Carpenter's The Thing, one of the greatest sci-fi horror films of the last 50 years. The story of men stationed in Antarctica, trying to figure out which one of them is a shape-shifting alien, is a thrilling exercise in paranoia, where the audience is as much in the dark as the characters.