The 100 Best Horror Films (Time Out London)

[Charles Albert]

...and talk about atmosphere....mated to the soundtrack (which demands the
accoutrements necessary for quality reproduction) I can't think of anything
which compares. In the final scene you are really sitting there with Kurt
Russell and Keith David awaiting hypothermia's warm embrace.

love,
cfa


On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Tom Beshear <tbeshear at att.net> wrote:

> **
> 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 <cfalbert at gmail.com>
> *To:* Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> *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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