The Thing (1982) Ending: John Carpenter Bluntly Responds To Eye Gleam Theory 41 Years Later

The Thing director John Carpenter addresses a popular theory regarding the ending of his 1982 classic. After making a name for himself with movies like Halloween, The Fog, and Escape from New York, Carpenter made The Thing, a movie about a research team in Antarctica facing off against a shape-shifting alien. The movie’s ending is famously ambiguous, with Kurt Russell’s MacReady and Keith David’s Childs the only two men left alive. It’s left up to viewers to decide whether the alien lives on in one of them.