Watch The Thing

Manhattan as a prison and Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken; Carpenter's dystopia of 1997.

A family lives in silence because the monsters hunt by sound; John Krasinski's horror.

A TV executive finds a snuff broadcast and his body starts changing; "long live the new flesh".

Kurt Russell as a trucker in a Chinatown sorcery war; Carpenter's cult comedy.

Michael Myers, Haddonfield and a piano theme in 5/4; Carpenter made it for $300,000.

Boris Karloff's flat-headed monster, the first of the Universal horrors.

Whale's camp, sad and better sequel, with the monster learning to speak.

Guillermo del Toro's lifelong dream with Oscar Isaac as Victor and Jacob Elordi as the Creature.