10 Horror Movies That Stick The Landing

If you've got trust issues, then John Carpenter's The Thing from 1982 is not the movie for you.

Set in the icy Antarctic tundra, a group of American researchers are flung into a battle for their lives when a shape-shifting alien infiltrates their base. Unsure if his co-workers are friend or foe, it's up to fearless helicopter pilot R. J. MacReady (Kurt Russell) to find the creature before it kills again. 

Spoiler: he fails. 

The monster does a number on the gang, murdering pretty much all of them before MacReady takes matters into his own hands. He blows the base to kingdom come, seemingly destroying the face-changer once and for all, before collapsing into the snow with mechanic Childs (Keith David) at his side. 

At least, that's what we're supposed to think. 

The movie ends with MacReady and Childs silently acknowledging that either one of them could be the Thing. There's no definitive proof either way. Did the alien really die in the flames? Or was all of that death and destruction in vain? 

It's been over 40 years since this movie came out and that chilling question remains largely unanswered.