The 100 Best Horror Films (Time Out London)

[Tom Beshear]

I saw The Thing when it came out and I remember some of the critics' reaction -- it was absurd. Main of the mainstream critics were hostile to horror and weren't willing to see it as other than a gorefest. It's Carpenter's masterpiece. And technically, it has some of the best pre-CGI special effects ever. And being real -- present in the material world -- they look better than CGI, whose effects look weightless.

----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Charles Albert 
  To: Dave Monroe 
  Cc: pynchon -l 
  Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 10:46 AM
  Subject: Re: The 100 Best Horror Films (Time Out London)


  Pleased to see Carpenter's The Thing get its well deserved propers.....can't begin to imagine what contemporary critics were thinking...


  I zealously recommend reading Who Goes There (1938), to which Carpenter was remarkably faithful.


  love,
  cfa 




  On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 6:50 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

    http://www.timeout.com/london/film/best-horror-films

    http://www.timeout.com/london/film/the-100-best-horror-films-contributors
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    Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l


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