1982 live effects vs 2011 CGI effects

I honestly can't think of anyone who has a mancrush on Kurt Russell, though I'm sure it's true because he is a handsome guy. My ex-girlfriend had a crush on him but that was more in his older sugar daddy days, like Bone Tomahawk. Never met a single person who based their admiration of The Thing around Russell, though. The funny thing is that the original versions of the Thing, Fly, and Blob are still very good movies, although The Blob has definitely become dated with its cast of 30-year-old high schoolers. Yes, the remakes are gory. However, they're also hailed because they did something much different and more ambitious with their original ideas. Gore may attract the cult nostalgia horror fanatics, but it isn't what reels in all the critics who love those movies.

"The pacing isn't great, the cinematography is very good but nothing outrageous, the atmosphere is just okay (not a scary or tense movie at all and I say this as someone who first saw it when I was 12 or 13 years old. Halloween scared me half to death when I was 11, The Thing bored me first time around)."

Sorry but we respectfully disagree here. I think The Thing 82's pacing is about as good as it gets for a horror film. Carpenter brilliantly allows his characters to come to conclusions that the audience also realizes at the same time. In most movies, we are usually a step or two ahead of the idiot characters who still haven't put the pieces together, but as soon as we realize something, so do they. You know, just as the characters know, that all hell is about to break lose. Also, the atmosphere the one thing the 82 film does immaculately, and I have a hard time grasping how someone wouldn't feel that frigid Antarctic air or the beautifully haunting blues and whites of the film's color palette.

Interesting that the film bored you as a kid. I saw a goreless TV edit at 14 and loved it. I'm not sure how or why the film could be considered boring.

The Shining, for example, is hailed as a marvel in horror but isn't all that bloody besides some brief bodies flashing and a tidal wave of blood, which is more cerebral than shocking. People like the 81 Evil Dead because it is a fun movie that shows off the techniques of low-budget cinema. The gore is a charm, sure, but I actually do find that movie to be genuinely disturbing. I've never really found it that fun, tbh. Some of the gore is too much for me, and WAY worse than The Thing.

I think you and I have different opinions on what makes a good horror film. If production values and acting were what mattered, Alien: Covenant would've been a masterpiece. That was one of the best-looking films of 2017 from what I recall, but the script made absolutely no sense and all the characters were total idiots. The 1974 TCM still terrifies me with very few drops of gore. The dinner sequence never fails to make me wince and it's practically bloodless, one of the best horror sequences of all time. People getting chopped up and splattering hyper-realistic chunky rust-colored blood doesn't scare me, it makes me roll my eyes. Sure, the people are sexier in the 2003 film but who cares about how nice Jessica Biel's ass is? Do I like her character? I've seen that movie 5 times and can't remember her name.