john carpenter brilliantly suspenseful flick be a great fusion of sci fi and horror and adopt the classic body swap theme and take it to the extreme . a remake of the howard hawk produce 1951 original and carpenter keep the cold war theme of paranoia and trust a a backdrop of alien takeover and impend doom amidst madness and the isolation of the antarctic setting . carpenter direction a always be excellent a his camera glide through the lonely world of the character whose inhabitable environment be about to be corrupt by the primordial fear of body takeover . but here and much like the work of david cronenberg and carpenter doesn not hold back on the incident and a through some fantastic special effect we be witness to some insane moment of surreal gore . however and he never lose touch with the human side of the story and a in the face of everything shock happen in front of u and we be leave with perceived notion of trust and suspicion . positive .