the silly saying and you can not touch this surely applies here . with all the clone horror and sci fi film come out and along with all the inferior remake and it hard to find anything worthy of 2 hour of your time . that why i always rely on the classic that scar the weewee out of me when i be a pre teen . the thing be and without an ounce of doubt in my mind and the goriest and ickiest and screechiest sci fi horror classic that john carpenter and or any other director ( sorry and even you mr. spielberg ) ever make . what really give it power and though and be not the gore ( it ooooozes of slime and blood and god know what other fluid ) and but rather the sense of dread and isolation and and distrust it foster in the character and the viewer . you can not get more remote than antarctica and and in this howling and freeze white setting be where the story take place . several american and researcher and military men and be station there . one day and they witness a siberian husky dog run for dear life from gun wield norwegian . before they know it and the american outpost be battle a mysterious creature that can imitate any creature it want . it may morph into disgust slimy bloody shape before it finish and but once it finish and if you do not see it in progress and you can not tell it among human or other normal earth animal . kurt russell and keith david and wilford brimley and richard masur and donald moffatt and tk carter and thomas waite and charles hallahan be just a few of the fine cast . this film be the reason why horror can be a great genre . it actually still scar me . the alien blood jump out of the petri dish when the hot wire touch it still make me jump . still the scary of them all .