It's hard to believe that The Thing lost out to E. T. I was twelve when it came out and hated E. T. or at least I can remember seeing it, although I've been told I had. On the other hand I managed to see The Thing. True Sci-Fi with a mild lovecraftian cosmic horror theme. Not a spoiler for most but in Lovecraft's universe the old god's, or fallen host of heaven, are trying to recapture Earth. The world they've been cast to is dismal and generally without resources. They cannot just travel to earth, but tried and sent I think millions of they're offsprings but only one made it. Anyway they try to posses human's to bring them across or through dimensional travel. Just a splendid, better than Lovecraft kind of story that is almost never matched today. And much better than E. T. :)
Review of The Thing
