Scream, Queens! The Top 40 Horror Films of The 80’s!

From:  The Backlot

#20
The Thing

There are two John Carpenter films in the top 20, and up first is one of the great remakes of all time. As I've mentioned before, I love horror that takes place in claustrophobic quarters, and an isolated arctic outpost is the perfect setting for paranoia and growing fear. The gross-out effects are still bad ass thirty years later, and are so much effective than the CGI used in the toothless “prequel.”