The Thing’s director John Carpenter has hinted at who turns into the horrifying villain at the end of the film, an answer which apparently was hidden in plain sight all along…
John Carpenter has hinted at the identity of who turns into The Thing.
The iconic sci-fi horror film was released back in 1982 and the ending is left purposefully ambiguous to keep fans guessing. Viewers are never told which character – R.J. MacReady, played by Kurt Russell, or Childs, played by Keith David – transforms into the creature.
For 43 years director John Carpenter has kept audiences debating, but now there’s a new evidence to suggest which character meets their demise. While at a screening of The Thing at the David Geffen Theater in Los Angeles, Carpenter told fellow director Bong Joon Ho something that would change movie history forever.
He confessed there is a “giant hint” in the middle of The Thing that indicates the identity of the beast. According to reports, he also joked that he’d tell all to anyone who sent an undisclosed sum of money “in an envelope to his house”.
John revealed that the main actors had no idea which of them would become The Thing: “They had no clue, but they had to play it human, you see. The creature imitates perfectly.”
“It could be one of us, it could be somebody in the audience and there’s no way of telling. So I knew, they didn’t know.”
Director Joe Russo took to X/Twitter to write: “I think I found that hint,” as horror fans gathered to hear his theory. MacReady is told that The Thing can replicate using cells, which means they should only eat or drink stuff they’ve touched.
However, MacReady offers his alcohol to Childs as the film comes to an end, which could mean one of two things – he’s already forgotten the crucial rule, which is unlikely due to the meticulous continuity used in Hollywood, or that he was already The Thing.
Russo wrote a bombshell statement on X/Twitter: “As soon as Childs drinks from the bottle, The Thing has won. It’s beaten its most skeptical, final threat.”
He also pointed out that the last line of the film supports this wild claim: “Why don’t we just wait here for a little while, see what happens?”
Russo also blew the minds of many horror enthusiasts as he wrote: “[Did you see that] OR…did you watch a BETTER imitation kill the POORER imitation because it had a better chance of infiltrating society upon rescue.”
However, the controversial theory stirred up a lot of comments from diehard fans of the movie as they rushed to challenge Russo’s tweets. One person said: “I still think it’s Childs because we don’t know his whereabouts for a long time heading into the final scene, but Keith David will tell you he’s 100% not The Thing.”
Russo shot down the claims: “Carpenter said both actors don’t know…Childs always felt like a red herring to me.”
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