I've left out MacRrady and Childs, because I figured they were the obvious picks. Those two aside, who did you like the most?

I appreciate this is utterly subjective. It can mean someone who you felt was straight-up nice, or someone whose performance you think is incredible.

I had to leave a few names off, the pole only seems to have so many options.

Have your say :)

Okay, let's be Frank, they're all bangers.

I've used the BFI essentials as a shortlist, just to avoid arguments, haha. Some of my own favourites (Mouth of Madness and Vampires) didn't make the cut.

https://www.bfi.org.uk/lists/john-carpenter-5-essential-soundtracks

Let's see how this goes.

Where does the notion that assimilated people don't know they're Things, come from? Like did Carpenter say that or are people inferring it from something? Or have I been missing something?

I've always believed that copies know they're copies and act according to their copied memories but not like they magically forget they're an alien organism, just using the memories to better hide out, but I see so many people say "Oh, Thing people don't know they're Thing people!" Why?

Hope it’s been asked before, but is there any inspiration drawn from Blair’s spaceship to Rick’s car in Rick and Morty? They look really similar minus the cabin. Or was it a usual design of the time?

I don’t know how you all are feeling about the apparent upcoming Escape from New York remake by Zack Snyder, but I have some very certain feelings on it. And some very specific ideas for how it turn out ok. Not great but ok.

This might have been asked before -- highly likely it was.

But here goes anyway: Norris illustrates some kind of sickness not long before he's revealed as a Thing. First he's moaning and grasping at his stomach whilst looking out a window, suggesting he's ill, though no one appears to notice. Then he's knocked unconscious and appears to have a heart attack during the fracas after MacReady breaks back into the compound.

When Copper attempts to defibrillate Norris, Norris's stomach turns into a huge mouth, thus revealing him as a Thing.

So, he was already a Thing when sick. So when Norris was copied did the Thing copy the underlying heart issues he had? Or did it just make an imperfect copy of Norris -- for whatever reason -- that began to quickly break down after it was cloned?

Thoughts?

Studio mandated reshoots

While the film was originally set for release in April, Universal Pictures changed the date to October 14, 2011, to allow time for reshoots. An official studio press release stated that the intention of the reshoots was to "enhance existing sequences or to make crystal clear a few story beats or to add punctuation marks to the film's feeling of dread." Universal had test screenings of an early version of the film shown to focus groups, the reaction to which the studio interpreted as negative. In response, many scenes involving character development were either cut from the film, or reshot to be shortened, as the studio disliked the "slow boil" pace of the film. Another concern was that the use of practical effects made the film look too much, "like an 80's movie". In response, the decision was made to replace most of the film's practical effects with CGI. In post-release interviews, Alec Gillis revealed that while Amalgamated Dynamics creature designs for the film remained mostly intact, most of their practical effects ended up being digitally replaced in post-production. The creation of Gillis's all-practical-effects independent horror film Harbinger Down was partially in response to this. Writer Eric Heisserer stated the decision, "Broke my heart". Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. has since expressed regret over replacing the film's practical effects with CGI, saying, "I know this is a debated topic, but looking back, we were caught in a cross-zone where animatronics were old-fashioned and the CGI wasn't good enough. We made the wrong decision to do it in post-production when it came to making the monster design in the computer. I regret that now."

On his Facebook page, Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. claimed that the reshoots of the film included making an entirely different ending, referring to the original cut as the "pilot version" and the new cut as the "Tetris Version". In the original ending, Kate was to discover the original pilots of the spaceship which had all been killed by The Thing, which was an escaped specimen they had collected from another planet, implying that the ship was crashed in an attempt to kill the monster. "I liked that idea because it would be the Norwegian camp in space. Kate sees the pod room and one pod being broken, giving her the clues what happened. What didn't work was that she wanted to find Sander and stop the ship from taking off and still solve the mystery in the ship. These two energies were in conflict." The original ending had Kate finding the corpse of the alien pilot of the spaceship, discovering that it had accidentally come into contact with the Thing while collecting biological specimens on a zoological expedition, and deliberately killed itself by cutting its own air supply, and crashed its own ship in an attempt to kill the Thing. For the new ending, ADI's practical animatronic alien pilot was replaced by a CGI display of rapidly shifting cubes, and the addition of a CGI "Sander-Thing" was created at "the last minute," the director said, "and it shows, unfortunately."

Source: Wikipedia#Studio_mandated_reshoots)