Exclusive John Carpenter Intro to The Thing

Ahead of the Fantastic Films Weekend at the National Media Museum in Bradford we asked the legendary horror director John Carpenter to record a seven minute introduction to his seminal movie The Thing (1982).

The 7th Fantastic Films Weekend ran from Friday 13 - Sunday 15 June 2008 at the National Media Museum, Bradford, West Yorkshire and continues to be the North's premier horror, sci-fi and fantasy film event. See you next year!
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[TheMightyHartley]

The weird thing is, Europe always got John Carpenter - he won plenty of festival awards in England, going back to Assault on Precinct 13. I was lucky enough to see a Q & A with him in London in the mid-90s (he was doing a Howard Hawks masterclass!), and he said "in France I'm an auteur, in England I'm a genre director, and in America I'm a bum".

[EntertaningAmerica]

Movies like The Thing, Alien, and various other 80s movies revolutionized some of these genres... mainly the horror/action. Cameron and Carpenter have to be the 2 greatest directors of the past 50 years! Fuck Lucas

[shiner421]

I have always considered the thing one of the creepiest movies I have ever seen. And I LOVED it! it has been a fovorite of min since 1982 and will always be a favorite of mine.

[madmomentsgo]

fantastic director.

[thereefshark]

To discredit George Lucas's early career is ignorant. American Graffiti is one of the defining films of the 70s Auteur Renaissance. Not to mention his contributions as a producer, and founder of groups such as Industrial Light and Magic.

Where would James Cameron have been for The Abyss and T2 without the digital effects of ILM? He got his vision made because of a foundation laid by Lucas.

George Lucas certainly has fallen these last decades, but to deny how important he was is foolish.

[Milton Mendes]

They hated the filme because it wasn´t warm and fuzzy like ET.At least this classic found it s audience like any good movie.

[Milton Mendes]

Yeah.Lucas is just a hack.Cameron and Carpenter are artists.

[henry alejandro decastro genao]

John Carpenter one of the best directors of all time, makes a low budget movie look like a 100 million movie...

[henry alejandro decastro genao]

A movie way beyond its time...

[Xantar Amone]

RESPECT 

[Swansea Jack]

He is a superb director. Precinct 13, Thing, Escape From New York, The Fog. They get shown literally all the time on freeview in UK. Vampires, albeit not his best, was on just last night

[45thundertrain]

Ridley Scott did Alien(1979)