Heading down the rabbit hole…
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Wikipedia: The Thing (1982 film)
http://www.impawards.com/1982/thing.html
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Paranoia in the Antarctic, and practical effects nobody has topped.
Nothing The Thing references has been spotted yet.
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The mimic floor borrows the blood test beat, tentacles and all.
The body in the shed is framed like the kennel scene.
Two different answers to the same question: what is still human?