Continuing this mini Halloween Thing (tee-hee-hee etc) is the prequel to the all-time classic I’m saving for Halloween itself (also called “The Thing”, which makes this film’s name extremely confusing), and frankly the fact it comes first chronologically is handy because the film was pretty… middling and it would’ve been a shame for it to be on the night itself. I can’t say it’s bad per say but nothing about it was captivating and the switch to CGI creature effects just rams home how great the original was and that’s all I could think of watching it. Still, I like how it ends with the same shot that the original starts with, that’s… something!
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