Playoff Gameday Thread, #20: Hell Week

I’m going to be over here watching scary movies instead. I’ll post reviews of some of my favorites, since I’ve no interest in analyzing this series. Oscar Wilde once described fox-hunting as “the unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable.” That’s pretty much how I feel about the World Series, which is the closest baseball can come to true horror...

• Yankees @ Dodgers (0-0), 5:08 pm, FOX

The Thing (1982)

Rating: A+
Dir: John Carpenter
Star: Kurt Russell, A. Wilford Brimley, T. K. Carter, David Clennon

While it did eventually recover its production costs, it was also eviscerated by many critics at the time, notably Vincent Canby of The New York Times, who called it, “A foolish, depressing, overproduced movie… Too phony looking to be disgusting.