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I’ve been reading Lovecraft lately (well, mostly Alan Moore and reminders what happened in the original stories on Wiki, which are fabulous sleep aids), so while waiting for HBO’s Scientology documentary to be seeded, I opted for this, the finale in Carpenter’s “apocalypse” trilogy. The Thing is a fucking masterpiece, and I loved that dream sequence in Prince of Darkness, but I couldn’t find anything redeeming here, not even a lewd screenshot to accompany this post. For horror to overcome rational man surely it has to be indescribably overwhelming, like the global scale of an alien threat or those nightmares I’d get with a fever, not the nonsensical frustration of a spook who keeps coming back.

Let’s settle for this groovy title instead, because Gabrielle Drake again would’ve been gratuitous. Seeing the you-foes behind you like that, now that’s scary.

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