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Forty Years Later, “The Thing” Still Captures the Paranoia of Our Times
There is something insistent in John Carpenter's film, The Thing (1982), that tells us our worst enemy is the one sitting in front of us. With its themes of paranoia, group psychosis, and the presence of an entity whose alien cells run, undetected, through the protagonists’ veins, the film, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this summer, is the perfect metaphor in these times of COVID-19.