10 Small Details That Make John Carpenter's The Thing Perfect

This is a fact that can be taken both with a pinch of salt and as a certainty - depending on which member of the production team that you ask. For Carpenter, this is merely a fun theory. For cinematographer Dean Cundey, this one is bang on the money.

In the scene on the couch, the four men suspected of being Things are tied up and the blood test begins. However, look at their eyes. In the picture shown above, Palmer has a glimmer of light in those eyes. During this scene, he is the only member of the team that doesn't have that light.

This was, according to Cundey, a deliberate clue on his part as to the fact that Palmer was hiding a secret. However, this theory then becomes more strained, later in the film.

In the final scene, both men have light in their eyes like the one shown above, which would seem to suggest that both of them are human. However, this is where Carpenter shoots the theory down, saying this doesn't prove anything and that MacReady may still be the only survivor of the expedition.

In the end, it may be a theory that only applies to a single scene - but it is a detail so small that barely anyone would notice it, enhancing it all the more when they do.