10 Most Badass Horror Movie Survivors
4. MacReady - The Thing
Take the ridiculously badass Kurt Russell, stick a marvellously badass beard on him, throw him in a beautifully badass snowy locale, hand him a badass and visually impressive flamethrower, and let a terrifying, parasitic alien run amok - and there you have The Thing.
By the time that this sci-fi horror ride from the legendary John Carpenter - itself based on John W. Campbell Jr.'s 1938 novella Who Goes There? - had come to an end, there were technically two survivors. That would be Russell's MacReady and Keith David's Childs.
Having been put through the wringer and with tension high at which of MacReady and Childs was now really an alien menace, The Thing concludes with the surviving duo side-eyeing each other as they share a bottle of scotch and await their fate.
Why does MacReady get the nod over Childs when it comes to inclusion on this list, then? That's down to the fact that Carpenter, Russell, and David have all discussed in interviews over the years how they presumed Childs had been assimilated by the alien parasite.
Then there's also the Dark Horse Comics follow-up to The Thing in which it's revealed that, yes, Childs was the one compromised at the end of the 1982 movie - making MacReady the only true survivor. Adding further weight to this, 2002's The Thing video game sees MacReady swoop in on a helicopter to save the day during the game's closing moments.