# The Thing **URL:** **By** Julian Sanchez, Jamelle Bouie **Published:** October 27, 2021 --- Jamelle Bouie and Julian Sanchez join the podcast to discuss John Carpenter's 1982 sci-fi cult classic, The Thing, a film that made our skin crawl with paranoia. ## Summary: Jamelle Bouie and Julian Sanchez join the podcast to discuss John Carpenter's 1982 sci-fi cult classic, The Thing, a film that made our skin crawl with paranoia. Based on the 1938 John W. Campbell Jr. novella Who Goes There? The Thing, tells the story of a group of American scientists in Antarctica who encounter the eponymous "Thing," a parasitic extraterrestrial life-form that assimilates, then imitates other organisms, including humans.