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  1. craft (creature design): Resident Evil → The Thing. The little girl turns into the dog from The Thing.
    “as does this girl who turns into the dog from the thing.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:38:55 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (homage): Resident Evil → The Thing. The farmhouse sequence and the dog at the barn are homages to Carpenter's The Thing.
    “You can see the homage to Carpenters the Thing in all this part.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:40:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. career (career sequence): Christine → The Thing. Carpenter's rising run ended when his big-budget check flopped, and Christine was the safe follow-up.
    “his movies have been sort of going up and up and up and up until the thing when he finally gets his blank check”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 0:21:53 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. career (filmography): Dean Cundy → The Thing. Carpenter praised the look of his pictures from Halloween through The Thing.
    “The look of my pictures from Halloween through the thing is beautiful.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 1:32:00 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. lineage (lineage): Eraserhead → The Thing. Alien, Carpenter's The Thing and Cronenberg's work belong to a 70s-80s peak of gooey rubber and robotics that Eraserhead may have first synthesized.
    “We don't exactly know, but I feel like things like alien and the carpenter film, certainly the thing.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:29:47 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  6. theme (tonal comparison): Alien 3 → The Thing. The dog scene and its child autopsy carry The Thing vibes.
    “It has the thing vibes as well, obviously.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:22:28 · Matt Singer (0.30 sure it was them)
  7. theme (shape comparison): Lolita → The Thing. Quilty is compared to the shapeless menace of John Carpenter's The Thing.
    “No, I'm saying he's like the thing, like John Carpenter's the thing.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:27:45 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  8. career (career): Kurt Russell → The Thing. Fennessey's Russell apex mountain: 1982-83.
    “Because 82, 83 is when he was at his best.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:48:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)