Tag Archives: The Thing

South Mill District takes place on earth after an alien war has pretty much destroyed humanity. The people that are left are remnants of Eon Corporation’s experiments, a company that created a disease called the Havoc Strain that turns humans into hosts for a deadly, mutated spider virus. Joe Meredith …

Artist Joe Meredith has done some impressive cover art work for a number of genre releases, including covers for films by Phil Stevens such as The Lung movies and the upcoming Paradis. He has done movie covers for Yan Kaos, Harry Collins’ The Sideling Hill and, most recently, Frames Of Fear 3. …

When we first heard about the upcoming indie creature feature Itsy Bitsy, the writers at PopHorror were pretty pumped to see this arachnophobic’s nightmare of a film come to fruition. And who better to chat about the film than the director himself, Micah Gallo? We asked Micah about his filmmaking …

You may not have heard of illustrator Steve McGinnis, but if you’ve spent any time in horror circles, you’ve most likely seen his work. He’s a fantastic and hugely talented artist, so if you haven’t come across his stuff, I encourage you to do a Google search or two. I …

John Carpenter’s The Thing is my favorite horror film of all time. It may be my favorite movie, period. I said as much in the retrospective I wrote for The Thing‘s 35th anniversary. It goes without saying that when I heard they were doing an illustrated tribute to the film …

Who’s your horror movie crush? Ever since I had watched Re-Animator when I was a young teenager, I had a huge crush on Barbara Crampton. To this day, I still think she is absolutely stunning and I know I would make an ass out of myself if I ever got …

Author Jason Parent is not a stranger to the world of publishing. This New England native has had over a dozen books and short stories published in the past four years, a feat not many authors can claim. Although he’s relatively new on the scene, Jason has earned his striped …

Back in 2002, Konami released a video game version of John Carpenter’s The Thing, which was a sequel to his movie. It ended up getting a poor reception, but it showed promise on what horror movie-related video games could be. Years late,r we are starting to see a rise in …

If it ain’t a remake/reboot disgracing your local theaters, then it’s studio execs second favorite cash cow: the prequel. Despite prequels claiming to tell the story before the story, they seem more like ways to remake a flick without the stigma of being a remake. At least that seems to …

“Space…the Final Frontier.”  On September 8th, 1966, the U.S.S. Enterprise and her crew boldly went where no man (no one!) had gone before when the first episode of STAR TREK premiered on NBC. Now, 50 years later, the Sci-Fi Television series that was cancelled after 3 short seasons due to flagging …