The Mummy: 10 Monster Films It Must Improve Upon

10. The Thing (2011)

The Thing is a triumph of marketing over content: it was sold as a prequel, but it plays more like a remake, matching the 1982 film beat for beat. As reboots go, it’s not that bad….but it’s not that great, either.

Once again, an arctic expedition (comprised of Norwegians and – mysteriously – a token American) discovers a creature in the ice and again they’re picked off one by one, but this time the transformation scenes are accomplished with digital effects that proved a major bone of contention for fans of John Carpenter’s version.

In fact, the effects are so poor that they were blamed for the film’s underwhelming box office returns. On a $38 million budget, the film could only drum up $26 million worth of business worldwide.