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The second 'Thing' film is closer to the source material, which was John W. Campbell's "Who Goes There?" -- definitely my favorite Sci Fi Golden Age novella. It's perfect '50s paranoia: your peers are taken over by an alien personality (e.g. they become commies) and you're fighting to keep from being absorbed.
The first film version was just a space vampire movie, though well done. The second was better, but the special effects were way overdone, IMO.
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