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He may be all but retired from feature filmmaking, but traces of the genre director’s legacy can be found everywhere.

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In John Carpenter's The Thing, what would happen if you talked to The Thing (you knew it was an imitation)? Could you actually have a conversation with it and try to make peace with it? - Quora

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In John Carpenter's The Thing, what would happen if you talked to The Thing (you knew it was an imitation)? Could you actually have a conversation with it and try to make

A hero of independent cinema, a modest, humble man with a great heart, John Carpenter is the living reason why filmmaking is and forever will be so special to us • Cinephilia