8 BEST Movie Tie-In Video Games EVER

The Thing is one of the few cinematic tie-ins endorsed by the original filmmaker, no matter that it didn't actually hit shelves until 20 years after John Carpenter's masterful sci-fi horror movie came out.

The Thing distinguished itself in a few key ways - first off, it functioned as a direct narrative sequel to the 1982 film rather than simply regurgitating its events, and boasted impressively sophisticated AI for the era, with a fear/trust system which required players to earn the trust of their NPCs comrades to avoid disaster.

As such, the game laudably replicates the paranoia-laced terror of Carpenter's film, as well as its sparse Antarctic setting and the visceral horror when the titular entity eventually strikes.

The Thing was a critical and commercial hit upon release, and remained enough of a cult fave that, while a planned sequel was sadly cancelled, Nightdive Studios released a remaster late last year.

More than 15 years before Among Us became a pop-culture phenom, The Thing showed the potential for video games to mine the fear of the unknown.