Science Fiction movie that went from "trash" to Gold ...

Ever heard about "The Thing" (1982) an its prequel of 2011 ? A good movie , by an alien plague / parasite that infects and copies every single cell of a living host creating an identical copy of the original basically undistinguishable from the original until it "manifests" itself . I remeber watching this movie as a kid back in '88 or '89 and being shocked by the Monster effetcs . But the movie as a whole is great , the acting , the suspense created and the scientific background (the "creature" when manifests itself can express any other living being it has "assimilated" previously) . The effects are "gory" , the creature when it manifests itself is as sick / nauseating / scary as possible     , but the movie ends up being a classic for those interested in science fiction in the lines of (for examplo) the first Alien .

Any others (along with me) fans of this classic that didn´t receive any recognization when it was first released (1982) ? 

Well , I don´t wanna "shock" anyone with this video . If you get shocked by gory images just don´t watch it . This is an explanation of the parasitic alien entity on a somewhat "biological" level ...

A while back, I picked up a four-disc extravaganza from John Carpenter, including The Thing and They Live. 

...and I'm all out of bubblegum.

Normaniac wrote:

A while back, I picked up a four-disc extravaganza from John Carpenter, including The Thing and They Live. 

I wanna watch "They Live" too . I ' ll soon buy a 2 DVD selling on a local website which contain both 1982's The Thing plus the 2011 prequel . Long time since I last watched this fantastic movie ...