86 Pretty good sordid little detective story, with the guy on the case a very religious self-righteously upright “family man” trying to track down his wayward daughter, who has been “lured away” to make adult films. Good acting, good character work, a little hard to believe a geriatric Scott could pound the stuffing out of all these younger guys, but I guess the protective papa bear factor gives him super strength. I know I’m a born cynic, but nothing about…
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The Thing 1982
87 “I dunno what the hell’s in there… but it’s weird and pissed off, whatever it is!” This remake of the 50’s film hews much closer to the original short story, in which the alien life form is able to shape change and mimic any creature it infects. So we not only get the dreadful isolation of these desperate men being trapped far from civilization in the frozen wastes of Antarctica with a monster, but they have no idea whom…