THE THING (1982 & 2011) Breakdown | Ending Explained, New Hidden Details And Things You Missed. We explain John Carpenters classic Sci-Fi Horror The Thing. Here we point out the hidden details and also give our theories about why Childs was the Alien. This is the 40th Anniversary of the movie and for Halloween I thought we’d discuss one of my favourites of all time.

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Ok, so John Carpenter’s The Thing is one of my favourite films ever made. The movie stands as the gold standard for practical effects, and on top of this, the film has an extremely well-crafted story that still stands the test of time. Laced with paranoia the movie is meant to leave us constantly second guessing which characters are the thing and this extends to the ending itself. The movie closes out with Childs and MacReady warming themselves by the blazes of their base before cold creeps in and kills them.

The Thing Breakdown

For decades, people have questioned whether Childs is a thing or not, and for the first part of the video, I want to discuss why I think that he is. Now, this is something I’ve gone back and forth on throughout the decades, and initially I believed that Childs was one of the good guys. However, there are two very important things that come at the end that I think spell out that Childs is indeed an alien.

Now the first of these comes when we catch him watching over the base from the sidelines. Childs is