With Kate Bush in the singles charts, strikes happening in the U.K. and Top Gun soaring at cinemas, many people have begun to wonder if we have all been sent back to the 80s. While that probably wouldn’t be a bad thing in many ways, another nostalgic hit has come in the form of a 40th-anniversary rerelease of John Carpenter’s classic horror The Thing, which managed to find itself beating the competition to claim a Top 10 spot at the box office.

Fathom Events released the movie in just over 700 theaters across the US last Sunday, and despite a number of issues plaguing the screening and its Sunday release, the film managed to pull in $500,000 to take break into the chart at #9. With only two showings available there were plenty of fans of the movie who wanted to catch it while on the big screen, but for those attending the Sunday performance, there were a few technical complaints that saw Fathom Events having to issue an apology to moviegoers.

According to Variety, a second screening on Wednesday managed to sort the issues that plagued the initial screening, which was presented in an aspect ratio that meant almost a third of the film was not on screen, with important moments being lost, and additionally many complaints about the overall picture quality also being noted. When the film arrived for its second showing, this had been rectified and move was returned to its original 2.35:1 widescreen format.

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The Thing Is Considered One Of The Best Remakes Ever

While there are some people who are unaware that John Carpenter’s version of The Thing is a remake, the director’s gory and disturbing tale of a research team being systematically taken over by an entity that distorts their bodies and transforms them into grotesque monsters is based on the novella Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell Jr. The same story was the basis for 1951 movie The Thing From Another World, although Carpenter’s version pushed many more boundaries with the special effects, and is the more faithful adaptation of the two.

While The Thing was not greatly received at the time, with critics mostly reacting negatively to the film, it has not only become one of Carpenter’s best-known movies, but also has become one of the few that has seen critical opinions change over the years. Now 40 years old, the movie’s effects mostly still stand up thanks to being practical, and the film can still deliver on its stomach-churning moments four decades later, even with this kind of thing being much more normalized by the likes of The Walking Dead, The Boys, and Game of Thrones on TV.

While The Thing was given a prequel movie in 2011, which arrived under the same title and served as a direct lead up to the 1982 movie, there were plenty of negative reviews around the movie, and it was mostly compared to Carpenter’s original film, which was never going to end well. All in all though, The Thing is one movie that at 40 is as iconic as ever, and its standing at the box office has only helped to prove that point.