15 Insane Physiological Facts About John Carpenter's The Thing

We all remember The Thing, right? The practical effects were truly out of this world, and even to this day, the spider-head and the dog twisting into a nightmare pretzel still hold up. But here’s the thing, though. From a biological perspective, the horror of the creature is that it is basically a walking scientific crisis. It studies living tissue, assimilates it, and rebuilds itself into an almost perfect imitation. It can copy a dog, a human being, and possibly any other living organism it encounters.