BLOOD TEST: Invasive Survival and Hematological Sleuthing in John Carpenter’s THE THING
by Michael H. Hanson Over half way into John Carpenter’s 1982 horror/sci-fi motion-picture masterpiece, THE THING, near the end of the Second Act, comes a now legendary scene that film critics and fans alike have declared ‘supremely suspenseful,’ one that arguably ranks right up there with Private Pyle’s murder-suicide in Stanley Kubrick’s FULL METAL JACKET,…