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Hey there, listeners, welcome to Horror Movie Club, the show where two dudes who are not quite nerds, but not quite nobs.

Choose a horror movie each week to rate and review.

I'm Brian.

I'm on the phone with Ashvin, and today we are discussing The Thing from 1982, directed by John

Carpenter, written by Bill Lancaster based on the 1938 novella Who Goes There by John W. Campbell

Jr. starring Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, and Keith David, and in this film, a research

team in Antarctica encounters an alien that can take over other life forms and assimilate their appearance.

This is a request for many people.

I cannot unfortunately remember everyone who requested this movie.

But most recently, my high school friend Mike requested it.

And I think my high school friend Matt has requested it as well.

So for everyone else who requested it, uh, sorry I don't remember your names. It's also beloved by a

lot of our friends on our Discord server. So we figured we'd better get around to it, uh, as it's

commonly referred to as one of the greatest horror movies of all time. And Ashfin, you have seen this before,

right? We talked about this before, actually, before we were recording a podcast.

Yeah, yeah. Thanks for reminding me. What do you think? It's been like four or five years since we saw it

originally? I think so, yeah. Okay. Yeah, so it was good to revisit. By the way, if you're new to

the show, we're going to talk some spoiler-free info for 15 or 20 minutes, and after that, we'll do a

little musical transition, and that's when you know it's time to get out of here if you haven't

seen the movie yet, because we're going to walk through the plot the pot and the

plot and do a bunch of spoilers and then review the film um this movie had a budget a 15

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