10 Goriest Film Scenes Ever

5. The Thing - We Need To Perform CPR, Stat!

There's a reason why The Thing is considered by many to be John Carpenter's finest horror film. Aside from the almost revolutionary animatronics the director used to bring the titular Thing to life, the film itself boasted some great performances and a very real sense of fear and isolation. Set in an arctic research base cut off from the rest of civilization, MacReady (played by Kurt Russell) and the rest of his arctic team come across a stray dog that has escaped from a similar facility not far from where they are based.

When the base's inhabitants start to realise that the mutt is actually a parasitic alien life-form that can perfectly assimilate and replicate the appearance of any organic being, paranoia and fear sweeps through the base. The ability to trust others and the concept of what makes a human what they are the two main themes present throughout The Thing, and as the base's population gradually dwindles, the audience is becomes as tense as the on-screen characters. Nobody knows if people are who they say there, and with the alien being one of the most aggressive, murderous and grotesque beings in cinema history, there's little reason to blame their paranoia.

When one of the crew apparently dies as a result of a heart attack, the remaining chracters try to resuscitate him, only to discover that their 'colleague' isn't quite human on the inside. As a crew member attempts to use a defibrillator on the man's poor heart, a gaping, toothed hole appears and proceeds to chomp off the medic's arms. After some failed attempts to assimilate some more humans, what's left of the parasite is burnt to a crisp, but that wasn't the only Thing... Oh no.