 Adam from a shadow alley productions would like to know what is the greatest 80s horror movie of all time? Did you do the music for a short movie of his? Yeah You ever pay you for that? No cheap prick. Well, here we are again Contributing to your channel increasing your views for your channel all for you What we think is the greatest horror movie of the 80s We're here at outpost 31 and it's got to be 1982s the thing the music and you'll more Kone did the soundtrack for this oddly enough Carpenter only kept the main title theme and you'll more Kone's best John Carpenter impression But oddly enough more Kone won an award for the rest of the soundtrack for the hateful late Years later the setting for this movie is fantastic You're an arctic hold up in this little outpost if you go out into the cold You're gonna die if you stay in the outpost with the alien you're gonna die Exactly carpenter also gets bouts of skin cancer from the filming Locations to still to this day the effects in this movie top-notch. There's so many iconic effects I don't know exactly what you're talking about when you do that Practical effects for 1982 that's all they had right and they're the best They're the best of the day and they still hold up to this day the plot for this movie is Fantastic, can you get any better than a small group of people in the Antarctic discovering a UFO and having a shape-shifting alien? Change to any form it wants to kill you and it's based on that short story Who goes there which is actually done from the perspective of the alien the acting again is top-notch You got Kurt Russell in there Wilfred brimley is in there. Yeah, not talking about diabetes Or a Quaker Oats or Quaker Oats. They're all good and all believable the directing come on John carpenter now, how can you beat that? You don't need to say any more than those two words another hallmark of this movie is the ending that Cliffhanger ambiguous ending one of them has to be the thing They're not sure who it is. You don't know though. Maybe they're both not It's both who knows you don't know and that's the best part about this ending and it's debated until this day And that brings us to the legacy of this movie. It's still being debated Not just the ending but pretty much the whole movie. How did fuchs die? What happened? What happened there when is when is the thing a person and when is the thing a thing and it's like and how does he get Yeah, each of the humans. Yeah, right. It's still being debated to this day That's got to count for something and it lives on in comic books and even that shit-ass prequel That's why the thing is the best 80s horror movie of all time And it will continue to be the greatest of all time because the 80s are over No more movies are being made and the 80s are the best. Yeah, and until next time Keep drinking